Louise Tate
Louise Tate is an artist who lives and paints on Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne). Her work explores painting as a practice of care, using oil and watercolour paint on paper and linen and, more recently, using local plants to dye the fabric she works with.
In 2023 Louise won the prestigious Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, and has previously been a finalist in a number of other prizes including the Omnia Art Prize (2025 & 2023), Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize (2021), the McClelland Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award (2021), the Hopper Prize (2020), the churchie national emerging art prize (2019), among many others.
She has participated in artist residencies at Hôtel Sainte Valière in the south of France (2022), the NARS Foundation in New York (2019), and Kyneton in regional Victoria (2017), which was supported by the Macfarlane Fund.