About

 

"Art is not a thing, it is a way" - Ethert Hubbard.

 

Ann Louise Musgrave has been drawing and painting ever since she was a small child in Warren NSW where she was born. After moving to Dubbo, where she married and raised her family, she continued her art and attended studies at TAFE. She then moved to Wollongong where she completed her studies and now resides. 

 

Ann Louise's approach to art has been described as exploratory and experimental. She is a seeker and a romantic and is always searching for the extra level of meaning in her work. She often pushes herself beyond her comfort zone by using alternative approaches, materials and media. Her work has now evolved to be mostly mixed media, a fusion of drawing, painting and collage. Women, nature and the world around her are recurring themes. 

 

Ann Louise's work is held in many private and corporate collections around the country. She has a Diploma in Fine Arts, ran her own children's art classes for a number of years and has participated in many combined and solo exhibitions.

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Ann Louise has also contributed to the publication of a journal article titled 'Variation and Likeness in Ambient Artistic Portraiture' in 2018. 

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Wollongong City Gallery
Red Point Artists Association
Project Contemporary Gallery

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2022 Project Gallery Wollongong Still Life Prize

2020 Red Point Gallery Members Exhibition.

2019-2020 Season of Love Exhibition, Nan Tien Temple Berkeley NSW. November-March.

2019 August-September Cross Connections Exhibition Wollongong City Gallery.

2019 Project Contemporary Gallery Wollongong.

2018-2019 Wollongong City Gallery "Locals on Board" combined exhibition.

2018 Wollongong City Gallery "A Touch of Red" combined exhibition

2017  Project Art Gallery EMSLA Art Prize Wollongong.

2017  Wollongong Blood Bank corporate solo exhibition September – October.

2017  Ambient Artistic Portraiture exhibition Red Point Gallery Port Kembla.

2017  Red Point Art Gallery “Connect 7” combined exhibition Port Kembla.

2016  Mason Roberts Private Clients Wollongong corporate ongoing exhibition site.

2016  Minnamurra Café solo exhibition, Minnamurra NSW.

2016  The Little Blowhole Art Bar Kiama.

2016  Regional Mardi Gras Exhibition at the Old Fire Station Kiama.

2015-2017  Little Sparrow Gift Shop Unanderra .

2002  “Cross Connections” Wollongong University

2002  “Cross Connections” Satellite exhibition at Wollongong Entertainment Centre

2002  Uniting Church café exhibition

2001  “Cross Connections” Wollongong University

2000 Combined exhibition at The Watchtower, Balmain, Sydney.

1995-1996  “eKIDna Art” – solo operator children’s art classes, Dubbo.

1995  Dubbo Art Society Bi-annual exhibition.

1994  Mendooran Art Society exhibition.

1993  Dubbo Art Society Bi-annual exhibition.

1993  Mendooran Yarnspinners exhibition.

1992  Solo exhibition for the “Friends of the Dubbo Museum”.

1992  Combined exhibition Dubbo Regional Art Gallery.

1991  Dubbo Art Society Bi-annual exhibition.

1991  Combined exhibition at Dubbo Expo Centre.

1986  Gilgandra Art Society exhibition.

1986-1997  Use of the offices of GIO Australia as an ongoing corporate exhibition site.