Louise Meuwissen wearing Blossom (Louise Meuwissen x Glenn Barkley). Photograph Isabelle Gander
Louise Meuwissen works with textiles and found materials to make intricate embroidered paintings, sculptures, installations and wearable art – transforming components of costume and dress into objects imbued with uncanny psychological and spiritual resonances. Her work employs DIY methodologies and craft techniques to blend post-consumer materials – high and low – with time, care, and attention.
Meuwissen’s practice considers the complex individual and collective relationships we form with objects, and how they come to embody meaning and value; carry energetic, symbolic, and intellectual charge; and become anchors for thoughts and beliefs. Her work is informed by adornment and decoration, and the fluxing of fashion - underpinned by discarding and collecting, and the interplay between labour and luxury. Her practice considers the intangible, unknowable and mortality, informed by eclectic research investigating devotion, the Sublime, hoarding, storytelling and mythology.
Meuwissen’s work has recently been exhibited at Sydney Contemporary, Spring 1883, Heide MOMA, Wangaratta Art Gallery and Manly Art Gallery & Museum. She has conducted workshops with institutions such as the NGV, the Royal Melbourne Show, Craft Victoria, City of Kingston, City of Darebin, The Jewish Museum of Australia, and The Queensland Art Teachers Association. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Victorian College of the Arts (2013).
