Louise Allerton

Louise Allerton is an Australian artist and arts worker. A Master of Fine Arts graduate of the National Art School, and currently undertaking a PhD at University of Canberra, she has been an active Arts practitioner since 2002. A been a finalist in a number of awards including the National Photographic Portrait Prize (2013), Head On (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), the Citigroup Photographic Awards (2004), the Iris Award (2004), the Ulrick Schubert Award (2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012), the Olive Cotton Award (2005, 2006, 2015), and the Great Southern Art Award (2010). She spent 20 years living in indigenous remote communities which has profoundly shaped her relationship to landscape, community and culture. Much of her photographic work explores the human dimensions to landscapes and environments and the visceral energy of place. It displays a deep engagement with Western Australian landscape.

As an arts worker, she has over 20 years experience working in remote indigenous communities, facilitating arts practice and managing relationships between indigenous arts practitioners and non-indigenous organisations. In this time she has developed deep experience in, and knowledge of, indigenous arts practice, cultural protocols and the successful development of arts in remote community contexts. She has deep knowledge of cultural protocols, approaches to respectful and successful collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous organisations, and the development of arts practice. Louise also has strong experience of regional arts practice, the support systems available to sustain its development and approaches to community engagement in regional contexts.