Louise Galea

Born. Melbourne Australia.
Maltese, Parents.

Lived and worked in Melbourne, London, New York, Los Angeles.

Completed BFA – RMIT Melbourne Australia.
MFA – Goldsmiths College & Chelsea College, London UK.

Art works primarily focuses on the coexisting traversing polarizing relationship between; Icons – Hollywood/Religious the Human Condition, body and soul, light and dark.
Influences include; Marcel Duchamp. Andy Warhol. Andreas Gursky. Duane Michals. Andres Serrano. Marc Quinn. Edward Hopper. Bernini.

The bodies of these public figures are prostheses for our own mutant desirability.For stars are products of our own light projected above us, and often we come to feel that they influence us etymologically: flow into us too much. As Warhol must have sensed, this star-production can pass beyond the sadomasochistic to the paranoid: the relation to the star becomes a problem of distance (the star is too far from us, or too close) that is a problem of control the star has too little, or too much, over us? Hal Foster.

EDUCATION:
2002/03 Masters Fine Art. University of the Arts. Chelsea College of Fine Art. London UK.
2001/02 Post Graduate Diploma Fine Art. University of London. Goldsmiths College. London UK.
1999 Post Graduate Diploma Education. Fine/Media Art. RMIT University. Australia.
1995/97 Bachelors Fine Art - Multi Media Art. RMIT University. Melbourne Australia.
1992/93 Bachelors Fine Art. Latrobe University. Bendigo Australia.

2025. Pride Exhibition - Arlington Museum of Art. Arlington. Texas. USA.
2024. Voices Exhibition. CICA - Czong Institute for Contemporary Art. Museum. South Korea.
2024. September Exhibition. Alexandria Museum of Art. Alexandria. Louisiana. U.S.A.2024. Fairholme Facets Art Prize. Toowoomba. Australia.
2024. Stars and Stripes. Group show. The Hickman Gallery. Adrian Michigan USA.
2023. Wyndham Art Prize. Melbourne. Australia.
2023. Milburn Art Prize. Brisbane Institute of Art. Brisbane. Australia.
2023. San Diego Museum of Art Artist Guild Online Exhibition.
2023. The Big Picture - Denver Colorado. Outdoor Mural. Month of Photography Denver. USA.
2022. East Gippsland Gallery Art Prize. Victoria. Australia.
2022. Las Lagunas Art Gallery. California. USA.
2022. The Keller Prize. Aspen Colorado. USA.
2022. Martin Hanson Award. Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum. Gladstone Qld. Australia.
2022. Bundaberg Art Prize. Bundaberg Qld. Australia.
2022. Percival Photographic Portrait Prize. - Finalist. Percival Tucker Regional Gallery. Townsville. Qld. Australia.
2021 San Diego Museum of Art - Artists Guild. Online International Summer Exhibition. June 8 - August 8.
2021 The Other Art Fair Sydney Saatchi Art Australia.
2021 Reimag...