BIOGRAPHY
LOUISE MASON
(b. Johannesburg 1976)
Born in Johannesburg in 1976, Mason graduated with a honours degree in Fine Art at Stellenbosch University in 1998. The subject matter although wide and varied of Mason's work is typically centred around the aesthetic use of colour, form and texture. Imbued with hints of nostalgia, the 2015/2016 series ofBeach Paintings personifies for the artist 'surface areas of shapes and colour - instantly abstract compositions’. These wilfully crowded beachscapes punctuate with simple and repetitive patterns and rhythms developing further into her recent Informal Settlement series. Here from an elevated perspective nuisance of the narratives are filled with jostling anonymity - where houses are reduced to geometric shapes, their close arrangement overlapping and colliding much like the people who live in them.
These all serve to reinforce the artists desire to investigate her response to the congested spaces we choose to inhabit. Do people find comfort in congregation? Does anonymity afford us privacy near? For the artists: ‘an alternative view provides us with a different dimension on something we are used to seeing on a horizontal scale. Its context changes. All is not what it seems’.
SELECTED RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Unravel, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
Flight, Everard Read, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Spring, Group Show, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa
Things I'd Like to Remember, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2020
IMAGO, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa
Journeys of the Mind, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa
2019
Summer, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
On Being, Everard Read Franschhoek, South Africa
2018
Summer, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
Summer Exhibition, Everard Read Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Summer Exhibition, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Winter Collection, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Cubicle Series, CIRCA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016
Summer Exhibition, CIRCA Gallery London, London, United Kingdom
Winter Collection, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
Summer in the City, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Homage, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
WINTER, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
EMPIRE, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2014
Summer Season Part I, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Winter, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arabella Sheraton (Now Westin Grand) Hotel
Private collections in Australia, Dubai, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and USA