Bio
My young life was spent on isolated land on the Kaipara Harbour riding the coast with the birds imagining my world.
Years later Art found me, I became interested in material, how it operates, the moment it fails.
I enjoy the link between the process of making and the process of living. The challenge of following curiosity, excitement tips into vulnerability and hopefully simmers and reduces into a kind of wisdom. Satisfaction comes when all the elements come together in a kind of alchemy, and the work sings with intention generating more than the sum of its parts.
Master of Fine Art
Whitecliffe College of Art & Design, Auckland, New Zealand
Exhibitions
2014
‘‘Entropy’ MFA programme exhibition, Whitecliffe, Auckland, (solo)
‘‘Incantation’ The Vivian, Matakana, (solo)
‘Louise McRae & Janna van Hassalt’, Seed Gallery, Auckland (group)
‘‘Substantial Works’, Seed Gallery, Auckland (group)
‘‘Inches to Metres’ Seed Gallery, Auckland (group)
2013
‘Virginia Leonard & Louise McRae’ The Vivian Gallery, Matakana (group)
Seed Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Wallace Art Awards Finalist Exhibition, Auckland (group)
Central Otago Art Awards Finalist Exhibition (Group)
2012
‘Troposphere’ Seed Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Gallery 33, Wanaka, New Zealand (solo)
Wallace Art Awards Finalist Exhibition, Auckland (group)
2011
‘Things I want to make’ Seed Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Wallace Art Awards Finalist Exhibition, Auckland (group)
2010
‘How I harnessed the wind’ Seed Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Wallace Art Awards Finalist Exhibition, Auckland (group)
BMW Art Awards Finalist Exhibition, Auckland (group)
‘Off the Scale’ Seed Gallery, Auckland, (group)
‘Size Up’ Seed Gallery, Auckland, (group)
2024
The River Project, BOON Sculpture Trail
Same but Different, The Gray Place & SEED Gallery, Auckland (solo)
2023
Winner WSA Small Sculpture Awards
Hurricane Lizards & Plastic Squid, WRW&co, Matakana (solo)
Strange Bedfellows, Gallery Anomalous. Waiheke Island solo)
Sculpture on the Shore, Narrowneck Point, Auckland
Art in the Garden, Pegasus Bay Vineyard
2022
‘‘Kodama’ Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
2019
‘‘De-Monument’ Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Snells Beach, New Zealand (solo)
2018
‘‘Opportunity From Collapse’ Grand Windsor Hotel, Auckland (solo)
‘Trabant Towers’ The Vivian Gallery, Matakana, New Zealand (solo)
2017
‘Un-Monument’ The Gray Place, Auckland, (solo)
2015
‘‘Not Academic At All’ Seed Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
‘‘Wharfcloud & Yellow ‘MFA programme exhibition, Whitecliffe, Auckland (solo)
‘‘The Assemblage Show’ The Vivian, Matakana (group)
‘‘Lie of the Land’ Seed Gallery, Auckland (group)
Media
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RNZ Interview.
Sculptor Louise McRae shows how animals adapt to climate change.
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The Big Idea Article.
Hurricane Lizards And Plastic Squid.