Louise Haselton is an artist living in Tandanya, Adelaide, Australia.
She makes sculptural works using materials gleaned from the world around her. In 2002 Haselton completed a Masters of Visual Arts by research at RMIT University, Melbourne and in 2005 undertook a residency at Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi, India. Haselton held solo exhibitions, in 2011 at The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, in 2013 at Greenaway Art Gallery and in 2014 at The Australian Experimental Art Foundation. In 2015 Haselton participated in do it adelaide, at The Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, when she enacted instructions by Alison Knowles and was included in the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In 2019 Haselton’s work was the subject of the Wakefield Press/SALA artist monograph, titled Act Natural, the publication included essays by Gillian Brown, Leigh Robb and Jenna McKenzie. The monograph was accompanied by a major solo exhibition titled like cures like, at The Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide.
Between 2003-2020 she was a lecturer in The Bachelor of Visual Art, School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia. Haselton is represented by GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide.
EDUCATION
1999–02 Masters of Arts by Research, Fine Art (Sculpture) RMIT, Melbourne
1987–90 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture) University of South Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 like cures like, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
2014 Outsides, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2013 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2011 Errand Workshop, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide
2007 Years Without Magic, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
2005 Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
2003 small crowd, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2002 small crowd, graduating MFA exhibition, RMIT, Melbourne
2001 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Forest, The Edge, RMIT, Melbourne
2000 Act Natural, West Space, Melbourne
1997 One Swallow, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1993 “rougher than usual handling”, (RE) gallery, Adelaide
Five Different Homes, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Love Object Object Love, The Little Machine, Adelaide
2022 Sydney Contemporary, GAGPROJECTS, Sydney
2021 The pleasurable, the illegible, the multiple, the mundane, ArtSpace, Sydney
2018 Threads, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Directors Cut, FELTSpace, Adelaide
2017 In Cahoots – Artists working across country, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA
Internal Forces, Praxis Gallery, Adelaide (touring to Riddoch Gallery Mt Gambier, 2018)
2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide
Fabrik, Ian Potter Museum of Art & Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council Chambers, Sydney
Spring 1883, Windsor Hotel (GAG Projects) Melbourne
2015 do it (adelaide), Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
CACSA Contemporary, FELTSpace Gallery, Adelaide
Spring 1883 Establishment Hotel, (GAG Projects), Sydney
Gratis, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2014 Above and Below, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2013 Arte Magre: from the opaque, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2012 Lost for Words, SASA Gallery, University of SA, Adelaide
Deep Space: New acquisitions from the Australian contemporary art collection,
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2011 South Australian Living Artists Festival, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide
2010 CACSA Contemporary 2010. The New New, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Heartlines SASA Gallery Public Art Project, Adelaide
2009 3D x 4, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Chance Encounters, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart, SASA Gallery Adelaide
2008 Thoughts on Paper, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Flipside, The Substation Art Centre, Singapore
Mentor Mentored04, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide
2006 Things will be great, MOP Projects, Sydney
The Colour of Saffron, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
2005 Art Year Zero, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
2004 A Small Private View, touring regional Victoria
2002 text&, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
Colloquium, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2022 ArtsSA new work grant for studio research/development
2019 Wakefield Press/SALA monograph recipient
2018 Australia Council grant to develop new work
2017 Three month studio residency, Phasmid Studios, Berlin, Germany
One month residency, Blackstone Arts Centre, Papulankutja, Western Australia
2013 ArtsSA new work grant (for Outsides)
2010 ArtsSA new work grant (for Errand Workshop)
2005 Helpmann Academy Cultural Exchange – Sanskriti Kendra Residency, Delhi, India
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2017 Coates, Erin, In Cahoots - Artists Working Across Country, catalogue essay
Sasnaitis, Francesca, ‘In Cahoots’, Australian Book Review Dec. #397
O’Sullivan, Jane, ‘In Cahoots’, Art Collector, issue 82 Oct-Dec
2016 Slade, Lisa, ed. ‘Magic Object 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’ catalogue essay
O’Neill, Jane, ‘Fabrik, Conceptual, minimalist & performative approaches to textiles’
catalogue essay
Allen, Christopher, ‘Wayward wizardry’, Weekend Australian Review April 9-10
Hoskin, Teri, 2016 ‘Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’, Artlink Issue 36.1
Neylon, John, ‘Simply Magic’, Adelaide Review, Issue 434 April
2015 McKenzie, Jenna, ’Constituting Community: do it (adelaide)’, Art Monthly # 278, April
Slade, Lisa & Freak, Elle, ‘Louise Haselton Material Life’ in fine print
2014 Croall, Fiona, artist interview for ABC Radio National books and arts daily program
Bolton, Ken, “The Beautiful Visit” Australian Experimental Art Foundation website - Form Guide
Neylon, John, ‘Born Again’ published in The Adelaide Review, issue 417, November
Waters, Sera, ‘Unknowledgeable; The skilled tactics of deskilling’, Runway
2012 Lock-Weir, Tracy, ‘Deep Space: New acquisitions from the Australian contemporary art
Collection’, Articulate, Art Gallery of SA, issue # 6
2011 Bolton, Ken, ‘Where went the angst?’, Australian Experimental Art Foundation website Form Guide
Henderson, Julie, ‘Louise Haselton Errand Workshop’, Artlink Issue 31.4
Newall, Michael, ‘errand workshop’, catalogue essay, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
2009 Knights, Mary, ‘Chance Encounters’, catalogue essay, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia
2008 McKay, Peter, ‘Flipside’, catalogue essay, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide
2007 Kelly, Lisa, ‘Years Without Magic’, catalogue essay, University of South Australia
RELATED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
2003–20 Lecturer, Bachelor of Visual Art, SA School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia, Adelaide 2000–02 Lecturer/tutor, (pt) Arts Dept. Swinburne TAFE, Melbourne
1994–95 Lecturer/tutor, (pt) Sculpture Dept. University of SA, Adelaide
1994–96 Exhibitions Coordinator (pt), Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of South Australia Artbank