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