Louise Samuelsson (she/her) is an emerging Swedish textile artist and illustrator who has been based in Naarm/Melbourne since 2018.
Poetics, the visceral, and the corporeal are at the forefront of her artistic practice. Her work is recognised by its intricate free hand embroidery, often based on nordic decorative patterns and folklore. Through her textile art, she interweaves the complexities of emotions where the dichotomies of trauma and healing are translated into practice.
CV
EDUCATION
2019-2020 RMIT University, Bachelor of Art (Fine Art)
2017-2018 Folkuniversitetet konstskolan, Diploma
EXHIBITION/solo
2022 The Stitches Keep the Score, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne
EXHIBITION/group
2024 EMERGE: OUT, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2023 TRAILS Sculpture Exhibition, Finalist, Portland, VIC
2023 4th Edition International Women's Day Art Exhibition, Platform Exhibitions at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2021 Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Fine Art Grad Show, Palling Bro’s Brewery, Heathcote, AUS
2020 Museum and Me, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2020 If Then Else: Neurodiversity, Disability & Queerness, Online, Melbourne
2020 RMIT Online Graduate Exhibition, Melbourne
2020 Death in a Box, Online, Emergency Artistry Collective, Melbourne
2018 Graduate Exhibition, Folkuniversitetet konstskola, Stockholm, SWE
2017 The Skin We Are In, Folkuniversitetet konstskolan, Stockholm, SWE
RESIDENCY
2024 Artist in Residence, Clarendon Children Centre, Melbourne
2022 Artist in Residence, Clarendon Children Centre, Melbourne
2022 Short term studio residency, 10 weeks, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne
2021 NGArts Creative Residency, Online, Eygalieres, FRA
CURATION
2025 Keep in Touch, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne
2023 Clarendon Children's Centre Art Exhibition, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne
2020 Death in a Box, Online, Emergency Artistry Collective, Melbourne
AWARDS/PRIZES
2023 TRAILS Sculpture Prize - Finalist
2020 Heide Museum at home Visual Poetry Challenge - 2nd place
2020The Metasenta Projects/Global Centre for Drawing - Drawing Prize