CV / BIO

Born Sydney, Australia
e. louisa.chircop@gmail.com

Represented @Brendacolahanfineart Contemporary & Indigenous Gallery Sydney
Represented @mariegallery5 Marie Gallery5 and Art Advisory Sliema, Malta
Represented @galerieheimat Galerie Heimat Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France

Education

2015 TAFE Statement in Advanced Hand building with clay (Ceramics), Sydney TAFE, Sydney
2000 Master of Fine Arts (Research), University of New South Wales Art & Design (formerly College of Fine Arts, COFA UNSW), Sydney.
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Class 1), University of New South Wales Art & Design (formerly College of Fine Arts, COFA UNSW), Sydney.
1993 Associate Diploma in Fine Arts, TAFE NSW (St George College), Sydney.

Education Scholarships/Awards

2015 Ceramic Design Studio Potters Award - Advanced hand building with clay, Sydney TAFE, Sydney
1998 Australian Post Graduate Award Scholarship, College of Fine Arts, The University of NSW, Sydney
1997 Chancellor’s Award for outstanding achievement, College of Fine Arts, The University of NSW, Sydney
1993 Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
State Commission Medal - Highest pass in Fine Arts Diploma, NSW TAFE, Sydney
Highest Achievement Award, St George College of TAFE, Sydney

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Grotto Girl, MUŻA, National Museum of Art, Valletta, Malta. 
2023 Shadow Sanctuary, Marie Gallery5 and Art Advisory, Sliema, Malta.
2022 ‘In the wake of…’, Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Sydney.
Nebuchadnezzar Tree Dreaming - Works on paper and ceramics, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Nowra.
2020 Come shower with me, The SHAC Gallery, Robertson.
2016 Riversdale Dreaming, PLC Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney.
2015 Interior Monologue – A Carousel, Moran Gallery, Sydney.
2015 Penny for my Thoughts, A-­M Gallery, Sydney.
2013 A Scattering Of Pages (Art Month artist) A-­M Gallery, Sydney
2012 Breathing Life Into Pieces, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney.
2009 Dig, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney.
2003 With A Twist, A‐Space Gallery, Sydney.
2000 Metaphor as Autobiography, Kudos Gallery, Sydney.

Group Exhibitions

2026 DESTINATION DRAWING / From the archives of the International Drawing Research Institute, Draw Space, Sydney.
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC, Sydney.
2025 Summer Salon - Our end of year group exhibition, Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney.
Size is not Important - miniature sculpture exhibition, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
To Approach the Unknowable - Four Australian contemporary artists’ Surrealist responses to the Hassall Collection curated by Mary Faith, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney.
Eckersley’s National Finalists 60th Anniversary exhibition, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Exhibiting on the Occasion of Malta’s Republic Day, The High Commissioner of Malta’s Residence, Australia, Canberra, ACT.
2024 Revealed: Hidden treasures from the art collection, (Curated exhibition), Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Sydney.
Passion for Painting, Marlene Antico’s personal selection of National Paddington Art Prize finalists (Online).
Life in Working IV, Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Hazelhurst Painter Teacher, Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Women at Altitude - Celebrating Women artists in the Kedumba Collection, The Kedumba Gallery, Blue Mountains Grammar School, Wentworth Falls, Sydney.
Kaloskagathos, presented by Palmer Art Projects, Post Space, Exeter.
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC, Sydney.
Exhibiting on the Occasion of Malta’s Independence Day and 60 years of Diplomatic Relations  between Malta and Australia, The High Commission of Malta Australia, Canberra, ACT.
2023 In the Arms of Unconsciousness - Women, Feminism and the Surreal, A landmark cross-generational exhibition bringing together 22 significant and leading female Australian Artists that examines feminism and the Surreal curated by Carrie Kibbler, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
MARA - Second Edition Collective Showcase, Curated by Maria Galea, Bureau Iniala, Valletta, Malta.
Life in Working Art III - Hazelhurst Teachers and Preparators, Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
20th Anniversary National Acquisitive Paddington Art Prize, Cooee Art Leven Gallery, Sydney
2022 ACB - Selects, Amber Creswell Bell’s Selection from the ‘National Emerging Artist Prize’, Michael Reid Northern Beaches Gallery (Online).
In the Flesh - Invitational Artoure Contemporary Group Exhibition, Comber St Gallery, Sydney
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize - Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC, Sydney.
Exposition Ateliers - DRAWinternational Artist Residency Exhibition, Caylus, France.
M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, M16 Artspace, Griffith ACT.
2021 Life in Working Art II - Hazelhurst Teachers and Preparators - Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Splash McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Victoria.
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
National Paddington Art Prize,, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
Milburn Art Prize - Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane.
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize - Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC, Sydney.
Reciprocity: A collaboration between painters and ceramicists, curated by Caitlin Casey, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Movers and Shapers II - Women | Land | Sculpture, Broadhurst Gallery Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
2020 Hazelhurst 2020 - Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney.
Exposition Noël_002, Galerie Heimat, St Remy Provence, France.
National Paddington Art Prize, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
John Copes Portrait Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral.
2019 Exposition Noël_001, Galerie Heimat, St Remy de Provence, France.
Everyday Madonna - curated by Jenny Cheeseman, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney.
Connexions Silencieuses- curated by Nicky Ginsberg, Eglise St Laurent Eygalières, France.
2018 Movers and Shapers - Women and the Land, Broadhurst Gallery Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
The Way We See Ourselves, curated by Caitlan Casey, Westend Art space and Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne.
Campbelltown Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney.
2017 Land - curated by Katherine Roberts, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney.
 Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007-2017, curated by Kon Gouriotis and Lucy Stranger, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange.
Three Painters, McGlade Gallery, Australian Catholic University, Sydney.
Portia Geach Memorial Award', National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
2015 Works in Clay 2015 Ceramic Design Studio, Sydney TAFE, Sydney.
Campbelltown Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney.
2016 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
Art Fair Philippines – Gajah Gallery, Philippines.
Art Stage Singapore – Gajah Gallery, Singapore.
Vantage Points Art Month, Art Est., Sydney.
2014 The Democracy of Drawing 1, (Art Month Sydney), AirSpace Projects, Sydney.
Home - Gallery Represented Artists, A‐M Gallery, Sydney.
Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
2013 Kedumba Drawing Award, Wild Valley Art Park, Wentworth Falls, Sydney.
The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings, Orange Arts and Health, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange.
Under a Grand, David Rex-Livingston Gallery, Sydney.
2012 Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
2011 Show And Tell, McGlade Gallery, Australian Catholic University, Sydney.
2010 DESTINATION DRAWING / From the archives of the International Drawing Research Institute, China.
Something Personal, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney.
2008 Show And Tell, McGlade Gallery, Australian Catholic University, Sydney
2007 Eleven, Harrison Galleries, Paddington, Sydney
Works on Paper, Fisher’s Ghost, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney
Pocket Sculptures, A-Space Gallery, Sydney.
Small World and Southern Exposure, Sydney Institute staff exhibition, Ultimo TAFE, Sydney.
2004 Drawing the Line, A-Space on Cleveland, Sydney.
COFA FUNDRAISING EXHIBITION, Ivan Dougherty Gallery and Kudos Gallery, Sydney.
2003 Destination Drawing, COFA Gallery and Performance Space, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
The 9th International Art on Paper Fair, Byron Kennedy Hall, Fox Studios, Sydney.
Works on Paper, Gallery SP Dank Street, Sydney.
Gallery Artists Exhibition, Gallery SP Dank Street, Sydney.
Art on the Rocks, ASN Gallery in The Rocks, Sydney.
Re-connections - Drawings by fine arts staff in TAFE NSW, The Muse, Sydney Institute, Sydney.
Love your Work - artworks by TAFE NSW fine arts staff, The Muse, Sydney Institute, Sydney.
2002 Generation, Contemporary Salon, Beatty Gallery, Sydney.
2000 Master of Fine Arts Graduate’s Exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Dialogue - a selection of works by MFA graduates from the UNSW College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.
Lloyd Rees Memorial National Youth Art Award Exhibition, Cove Gallery Lane Cove Council Chambers, Sydney.
1999 Master of Fine Arts Student Exhibition curated by Master of Art Admin Students, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Criss Cross - an exhibition of MFA and PHD students work, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, College of Fine Arts The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
1998 Uncommon Masters - An exhibition of the recent work from the 1998 Masters of Fine Arts Candidates, the COFA Exhibition/Performance Space The University of NSW, Sydney.
Dissonance, Kudos Gallery, College of Fine Arts The University of NSW, Sydney.
Altered Characteristics - Master of Fine Arts Students, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, College of Fine Arts University of NSW, Sydney.
Zest, Kudos Gallery, College of Fine Arts The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
1997 Honours Graduating Exhibition, COFA Exhibition Performance Space, The University of NSW, Sydney.
The Jenny Birt Art Award, College of Fine Arts The University of NSW, Sydney
1996 Making Whoopee - Graduating Exhibition, College of Fine arts The University of NSW, Sydney.
Union Art Prize, The Fernery, Roundhouse, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Bush Week - Outback NSW Research Trip, College of Fine Arts Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Fifth Lloyd Rees National Memorial Youth Art Award Exhibition, Cove Room Lane Cove Council Chambers, Sydne
1995 Union Art Prize, The Fernery, Roundhouse, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Young Dissonants, curated by Vivienne Ball, Carmel Dwyer, Louise Fowler-Smith and Dian Lloyd, COFA Gallery and Performance Space, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Josef Lebovic Print Prize, COFA Gallery and Performance Space, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
1994 Erotica, TAP Gallery, Sydney.
Under 500 Collector’s Choice, Gallery Gaia, Sydney.
Young Dissonants 4, curated by Louise Fowler-Smith and Elizabeth Ashburn, COFA Gallery and Performance Space, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
1993 St George College of TAFE Graduating Show, St George TAFE, Sydney.
New Artists in Print - works on paper by graduating students from Southern Sydney Institute/St George College of Tafe, Balmain Watch House, Sydney.
1992 End of Year Show, St George College of TAFE, Sydney.
1991 Art Express - Outstanding HSC Art Showcase , Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.

Awards / Prizes

2026 Finalist - Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC, Sydney
2025 Finalist - Eckersley’s Art and Craft  60th Anniversary Prize (National), Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
2024 Winner - Highly Commended - National Acquisitive Paddington Art Prize, Art Leven Gallery, Sydney.
Finalist - Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC, Sydney.
2023 Finalist - Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Finalist - 20th Anniversary National Acquisitive Paddington Art Prize, Art Leven Gallery, Sydney.
2022 Finalist - M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, M16 Artspace, Griffith ACT.
Finalist - Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC Sydney, Sydney.
2021 Winner - Highly Commended - National Paddington Art Prize, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
Finalist - Splash McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award (acquisitive), McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Victoria.
Finalist - Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Finalist - Milburn Art Prize, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane.
Finalist - Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC Sydney, Sydney.
2020 Winner - John Copes Portrait Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral.
Finalist - National Paddington Art Prize, Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
Semi Finalist - BAM Art Prize, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina.
2019 Recipient/Awarded - DRAWinternational Artist-in-Residence Program 2022, Caylus, France.
Finalist - Hazelhurst Art On Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Semi Finalist - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney.
2018 Winner - (inaugural) Vincent Art Prize, Duckrabbit Gallery, Sydney.
Winner - NG Art Creative Residency Prize, Eygalières Provence, France.
Finalist - Open section - Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
Finalist - BAM Art Prize, Thomgallery, Byron Bay.
Recipient - Georges River Council Artist-in-Residence for 2021, Sydney.
2017 Winner - Fisher's Ghost James Gleeson Surrealism Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
Finalist - Portia Geach Memorial Award, National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
Finalist - Open & Contemporary sections - Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
2015 Winner - Hazelhurst Works on Paper Friends of Hazelhurst Prize, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney.
Winner Ceramic Design Studio Potters Award - Advanced hand building with clay, Sydney TAFE, Sydney.
Finalist - Open & Contemporary sections - Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
2014 Finalist - Open & Contemporary sections - Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
2013 Winner - Fisher’s Ghost James Gleeson Surrealism Award, (inaugural), Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
Winner/Aquisitive - Kedumba Drawing Award, Wild Valley Art Park, Wentworth Falls, Sydney.
Finalist - Works on Paper & Contemporary sections, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
Finalist - Cliftons Emerging Art Prize, Sydney.
2012 Finalist - Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.
Finalist - Open & Contemporary sections, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney.
Short-­listed - Mount Eyre Art Prize, David Rex Livingston Gallery, Sydney.
2011 Finalist - Open Award, Campbelltown Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney.
Finalist - Belle Arti - Chapman and Bailey Art Award, Chapman and Bailey Gallery, Melbourne.
Finalist - BSG Small Works Prize, BSG Gallery, Melbourne.
2010 Finalist - Contemporary Award Campbelltown Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney.
2009 Finalist - Works on Paper Fisher’s Ghost exhibition, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney.
2008 Expression of Interest - Kedumba Drawing Award, Sydney
Highly Commended - Art off the Wall - Art Sydney, Sydney.
2007 Finalist - Works on Paper Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney.
2003 Selected Finalist - Art on The Rocks participant.
Finalist - last round judging Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Sydney.
2000 Semi Finalist - Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Sydney.
Finalist - Lloyd Rees Memorial National Youth Art Award Exhibition, Cove Gallery Lane Cove Council Chambers, Sydney.
1998 Finalist - Zest Art Prize, Kudos Gallery, College of Fine Arts University of NSW, Sydney.
1997 Chancellor’s Award, University High Achievers, highest achiever honour in BFA Degree, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Finalist - Jenny Birt Art award, COFA University of NSW, Sydney.
1996 Winner/Acquisitive- Contemporary category Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery John Knapp Award - Judged by art critic John McDonald.
Finalist - Fifth Lloyd Rees Memorial National Youth Art Award Exhibition, Cove Gallery Lane Cove Council Chambers, Sydney.
Finalist - Union Art Prize, The Fernery, Roundhouse, University of NSW, Sydney.
1995 Winner/Acquisitive - Josef Lebovic Print Prize (Acquisitive), COFA University of NSW, Sydney.
Winner- Union Art Prize, Most outstanding COFA, The Fernery, Roundhouse, University of NSW, Sydney.

Artist Residencies

2025 Awarded/Recipient, Artist-in-Residence MUŻA National Gallery of Art, Valletta, Malta.
2022 Awarded/Recipient, DRAWinternational Artist-in-Residence Program, Caylus, France.
2021 Awarded/Recipient, Georges River Council Artist-in-Residence Program, Sydney.
2018 Winner, NG Art Creative Residency, Eygalières Provence, France.
Awarded/Recipient Artist -in-Residence Bundanon Trust, Nowra
2016 Invitational PLC Croydon Artist-in-Residence, Sydney.

 Collections

The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawing, Orange Regional Gallery
MUŻA, National Museum of Art, Malta
Grace Cossington Smith Gallery Abbotsleigh Sydney
Cambelltown Arts Centre
Hurstville Museum and Gallery
PLC Sydney, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
Michael and Marilyn Reardon-­Small Collection
International Drawing Institute Archive, COFA UNSW
Josef Lebovic Gallery Collection, Sydney
TAFE NSW Sydney Institute, Sydney.
Kogarah Marist Brothers, Sydney
Private collections in Sydney, France, Malta, Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong

Publications / Media

Simon Weir, (Exhibition Catalogue & Essay) To Approach the Unknowable with Works from the Hassall Collection in collaboration with the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, 1 November 2025.
Miriam Friggieri, (Two-part feature radio interview), Maltese Community Council of NSW Radio 89.3fm 2GLF-fm Sunday, Maltese Voices, 28 Sept 2025
Julie Pomorski, (Feature TV interview),Ta’Kuljum Live, ONE National Maltese TV Channel, 8 July 202
Mariella Pisani Bencini, (Feature TV interview) Meander Arti u Kultura Arts and Culture series, Net on Demand live streaming Malta TV, 23 June 2025
Richard Graham, (Podcast), Australian Women Artists - Louisa Chircop, Episode 20, The Podcast Series, 18 June 2025
Dr Louis Laganà, (Preview Feature), The Malta Independent on Sunday - A living grotto on Malta’s oldest well, 15 June 2025, pp. 28-29. 
Times of Malta, (Preview) Grotto Girl launches today at MUŻA, 11 June 2025. (Online article.)
Oh My Malta, (Preview) Official Launch of Grotto Girl Exhibition by Louisa Chircop, 10 June 2025. (Online.)
Maria Muscat, (Feature TV Interview) Maltarti TVM, Episode 074, 7 June 2025.
Antonella Vassallo, (Feature Interview),Ghaddi s’Hawn Live TVM, National Maltese TV, 6 June 2025
Dr Louis Laganà, (Review Feature), Sunday Times of Malta - Grotto Girl, maternal space and the psychic architecture of becoming, 1 June 2025, pp. 26-27. (hardcopy and online)
Rebecca Spiteri, Feature article and text, ‘Lovin Malta - Australian-Maltese Artist Louisa Chircop Makes History At MUŻA With Outdoor Well Installation And Community Exhibition’, May 25 2025, (online article &. images)
Francesca Vella, Preview feature article and text, ‘Guide Me Malta - Grotto Girl: Australian-Maltese artist makes history at MUŻA with first-ever outdoor well installation, A celebration of heritage made from a well of memory’, May 21 2025 (online article & images)
Phillippa Zammit, Preview feature Image and text, ‘Oh my Malta - Australian-Maltese Artist Louisa Chircop Makes History at MUŻA with Landmark Outdoor Well Installation’, May 21 2025 (online article)
Dr Louis Laganà, Preview feature article Image and text, ‘The Malta Independent on Sunday - Lifestyle and Culture’, Art and the Democracy in the Maltese Context, April 13 2025, p. 20.
Rebecca Spiteri, (Preview Feature), Lovin Malta, Australian-Maltese Artist Louisa Chircop Makes History at MUŻA With Outdoor Well Installation And Community Exhibition, 25 May 2025 (Online.)
Francesca Vella, (Preview Feature), Guide Me Malta, Grotto Girl: Australian-Maltese artist makes history at MUŻA with first-ever outdoor well installation, 21 May 2025 (Online.)
Phillippa Zammit, (Preview Feature), Oh My Malta, Australian-Maltese Artist Louisa Chircop Makes History at MUŻA with Landmark Outdoor Well Installation, 21 May 2025 (Online.)
Dr Louis Laganà, (Preview), The Malta Independent on Sunday - Lifestyle and Culture, Art and the Democracy in the Maltese Context, 13 April 2025, p20
Jane O’Sullivan, Vault magazine, ‘Fever Dream’, Surrealism Issue 47, Aug to Oct 2024, pp. 142 & 144. (Essay mentioning group show and Image of exhibition).
Diana Palmer ‘KALOSKAGATHOS’ (Essay accompanying exhibition, follow link to read exhibition essay), 10 Feb 202
Lea Hogg, (Feature Interview), Maghkom, Net on Demand live streaming Malta TV, 16 Nov 2023
Times of Malta, Australian-Maltese Artist debut show in Malta, 15 Nov 2023 (online article & images)
Mariella Pisani Bencini, (Feature Interview), Meander Arti u Kultura Arts and Culture series, Net on Demand live streaming Malta TV, 5 May 2023
Carrie Kibbler ( Digital Catalogue and Essays) by Courtney Kidd, Chloe Wolifson & Kathleen Lin, In the Arms of Unconsciousness - Women, Feminism and the Surreal, Digital catalogue accompanying exhibition, 22 August 2023
Judith Blackall, (Review), Artist Profile, In the Arms of Unconsciousness, 31 August 2023 (Online.)
John McDonald, (Review), The Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum, ‘The Surreal Deal: Art Inspired by the Unspeakable’, 29 July 2023
John McDonald, (Image and Review), The Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum, 1 August 2023 (Online John McDonald’s Website.)
Katya Gineve Scicluna, (Feature Interview and short documentary), Malta and Beyond Series - Maltin Bhalna - Malta U Lil Hinn Minnha, TVM Malta, 23 Oct 2022.
Dr Gareth Jenkins and (essay) by Caitlin Casey, Reciprocity, book publication accompanying exhibition by Apothecary Archive, 13 June 2021
Highlife: Country Life in the Southern Highlands of Australia, Around the Highlands: 2020 John Copes Portrait Prize, Dec/Jan 2021, p. 166. (Text and Images.)
Maria Stoljar, (Podcast), Talking With Painters - Filippa Buttitta with Louisa Chircop, Episode 109, Australian Podcast series, May 2021
Highlife: Country Life in the Southern Highlands of Australia, Around the Highlands: Louisa Chircop at the SHAC, April–May 2020, p. 176. (Text and images.)
Campaign Brief, ‘Art meets advertising in the Southern Highlands’, February 18 2020, (Online.)
John Hibberd, (Radio Interview) Friday on your Mind - Highlands 107.1FM, 21 February 2020.
Maria Stoljar, (Podcast), Talking With Painters, Episode 95, Australian Podcast series, August 2020
Hazelhurst Arts Centre Friends of Hazelhurst News, Artist Spotlight, April 2020
BAM Byron Arts Magazine, Issue 18, 2020, p. 31.
Merryn Porter, (Editorial), St George and Sutherland Shire Leader - ‘Georges River Council announces participants of its 2021-22 Artist in Residence Program’, November 15 2020, (Online.)
Jenny Cheeseman, (Catalogue, essay and images/ National Library of Australia), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Everyday Madonna, May 2019
Foxtel Arts, Featured artist in national campaign for ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’, Season 4 launch, broadcast and digital platforms, Australia, 2018
Portia 2017, The annual journal and report of Victorian Women Lawyers, 2017, p. 61. (Image.)
Susannah Smith, (Feature Interview) Runway: Australian Experimental Art, ‘The Double producers: Makers &Motherhood’, Issue 32:[Re/production] November 2016 (Online)
PLC Sydney, (Artist profile video), institutional media feature supporting exhibition, artist residency and education program at Bundanon Trust, Australia, 2016
Rose Niland, The Culture Concept Circle, 23 June 2015
Lucy Stranger,(Featured Artist), Artist Profile, Issue 31, Artist Profile Magazine, 16 June 2015, pp. 48-51.
Andrew Frost, Top Five Critics’ Pick, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 February 2015
Sharne Wolff, (Review), The Art Life, 6 February 2015
The Art Life, New Work Friday, January 2015
Monica Heary, (Editorial), ’Artist Shows the Money’, St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, 16 July 2015
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, (Image featured), 4 June 2015
Artist Profile Magazine, The 2015 Hazelhurst Art On Paper Winners, June 2015 (Online.)
Owen Craven, Art Almanac - Art News, July 2015, p. 38.
Chloe Wolifson, (Preview), Home - Gallery Artists, 2014
The Art Life, (Feature), New Work Friday #162, Issue 162, 18 April 2014
Carrie Miller, (Preview and Image), The Art Life, 8 March 2013
Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan, Helen Campbell, (Catalogue), Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing, 1993–2013, AGNSW, Sydney, 2013, p. 79. (Listed.)
The Blue Mountains Gazette, (Editorial) ‘Along the Highway - Drawing Award Back in Mountains’, 20 Nov 2013, p.22
Julian Leatherdale, Drawing A Crowd: The Kedumba Drawing Collection hits the road, Oz ARTs, Spring/Summer 2013, pp. 63-72. (Listed)
Andrew Frost, Critics’ pick, The Sydney Morning Herald - Metro, 17 Feb 2012, p. 3.
East Side FM 89.7, (Radio Interview), What Were You Thinking? with Dr Lisa Anderson, 2012
Art Gallery of NSW, (Web page & Image), Dobell Prize for Drawing 2012 (Online.)
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, (Article and image), 21 Feb 2012, p. 19.
Peter Harvey, (TV Interview), Network Nine News, Archibald Prize AGNSW, 2011.
The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, Eleven, August 2007
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, Leisure (Editorial) – ‘The Reds of Wrath Tempered’, 17 April 2003, p.38 (article and image)
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, Leisure (Editorial) – Chircop in a Real Twist, article and image, 17 April 2003, p. 37.
Tim Benzie, Stage Whispers, Sun Herald Metro, April 2003, p. 27.
The Maltese Herald, (Editorial) ’Maltese Artist Makes Good’, 22 April 2003. (Text and images.)
Art Almanac, Profiles, February 2000. (Text and images.)
Felicity Fenner, Critic’s Choice (Editorial), The Sydney Morning Herald, Young Dissonants, UNSW COFA, 26 May 1995, p. 14.
Dian Lloyd, (Catalogue Essay), Young Dissonants 4, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, 1994, p.5 Felicity Fenner and Penny McKeon, New Voices; Art, Art Education and Feminist Practice, Papers from the Forum, Young Dissonants 4, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, 23 Aug – 1 Sept 1994, pp.7–15 (Exhibition catalogue.)
Images, Information Bulletin for the TAFE Arts and Media Network, TAFE NSW, Issue 2, Jan 1994, p. 5. (Text and images.)
Christopher Allen, (Review), The Sydney Review, Class of ’91, Issue 39, Jan/Feb 1992, p. 16.
ArtExpress, Board of Studies (Catalogue), AGNSW, Sydney, 1991, p. 6. (Text and images.)

Public Programs / Artist Talks / Forums
2025 Guest Speaker (invited), NSW Parliament House, Malta’s Republic Day.
Artist and Community Outreach Facilitator, Grotto Girl Public Programs, Heritage Malta and MUŻA, Valletta, Malta.
Guest of Honour (invited exhibiting artist), Residence of the High Commissioner of Malta, Canberra ACT, Malta’s Republic Day.
2024 Artist Panel Speaker (invited), Paddington Art Prize Winners’ Talks, hosted by Claudia Chan Shaw.
Artist Talk (invited), with Sebastian Goldspink, Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
2023 Presenting Artist (invited), Malta’s Independence Day and 60 Years of Diplomatic Relations between Malta and Australia, High Commission of Malta to Australia, Canberra ACT.
Artist Talks and Workshops (invited), In the Arms of Unconsciousness: Women, Feminism and the Surreal, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Artist Talk and workshops (invited), We Are Studios - Organisation empowering artists with disabilities, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Opening Night Artist Floor Talks (invited), In the Arms of Unconsciousness, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
2022 Artist Talk and Workshop (invited), In the Wake of…, Artist Residency Public Program, Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Sydney.
Artist Talk (invited), Nebuchadnezzar Tree Dreaming, Residency Public Program, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Nowra.
Host, Live Podcast Talk, ArtWank with Movers and Shapers II – Women | Land | Sculpture, Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Guest speaker exhibition opening (invited), Friends on Show, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
2021 Artist Talk Q&A (invited), The SHAC, Robertson.
2019 Artist Panel Speaker (invited), Hazelhurst Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Guest speaker exhibition opening (invited), Repurposed, Moran Health Care Group, Sydney.
Guest speaker exhibition opening (invited), Out West Inner West, Moran Health Care Group, Sydney.
2018 Artist Opening Exhibition Floor Talks, The Way We See Ourselves, Westend Space, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne.
Host, Movers and Shapers in Dialogue, with Maria Stoljar (Talking with Painters), Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Guest Speaker (invited), Creatives Connect Public Talks Program, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney.
2017 Artist Talks (invited), Portia Geach Memorial Award, SH Ervin Gallery (National Trust), Sydney.
Artist in Conversation (invited), Land, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney.
2016 Guest speaker exhibition opening (invited), Dwell Exhibition, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney.
Guest speaker exhibition opening (invited), Friends on Show, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
2015 Artist Floor Talk (invited), Hazelhurst Art on Paper (Winner), Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.
Artist Panel Speaker and Art at Night Workshops (invited), Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney.

Conferences / Symposia
2012 The Sacred in Literature and Arts, Australian Catholic University, (Strathfield Campus), Sydney.
2003 Drawing Connections II - International Drawing exhibition and conference as part of Australian Contemporary Drawing Biennial, iniated by the International Drawing Institute Archive (IDRI) - a consortium including COFA UNSW, the Glasgow School of Art, and the Central Academy of of Fine Arts Beijing, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney (attended as exhibiting artist).

Judging Panels
2018 Judge (invited), Bayside Art Awards-Sydney Airport Visual Arts.
2017 Judging Panel (invited), Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney. 

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Sydney, Chircop holds an Associate Diploma in Fine Arts from St George TAFE and was awarded the NSW State Commission medal for fine arts. She has won the Basil Muriel and Hooper Scholarship AGNSW. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Class1 and a Master of Fine Arts Research degree in painting both from the College of Fine Arts UNSW assisted by an Australian Post Graduate Award Scholarship.

Chircop has been a finalist in the Dobell Prize AGNSW; the Portia Geach Memorial Award exhibited at the SH Ervin Gallery; Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize at the Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC Sydney and the Triennial McClelland Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award held at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery in Victoria Australia supported by the Fornari Bequest. Her work was acquired from the Kedumba Drawing Award for the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings which is considered one of the most significant and important collections in Australia. She has won the James Gleeson Prize for Surrealism at Campbelltown Arts Centre twice, the FOH Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, the John Copes Portrait Prize, The Paddington Art Prize Highly Commended Prize (twice) and twice been the Critics’ Choice of Guardian Art Critic and ABC Arts Presenter Andrew Frost. In 2015 she was a feature artist in Artist Profile magazine and most recently in 2018 she was awarded the coveted Bundanon Trust Artist-in-residence as well as awarded residencies with Hurstville Regional Art Gallery and Museum and DRAWinternational Residency in Caylus France.  Chircop has twice recently been invited as a podcast guest on Maria Stoljar’s highly esteemed and very popular ‘Talking with Painters’ Australian podcast series and was recently featured in an international cultural documentary ‘Malta and Beyond’ filmed at MUZA (National Museum of Art Malta) in 2022 for TVM Malta.

Most recently, her work was reviewed by acclaimed Australian art critic John McDonald in the Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum as part of a landmark first exhibition in Australia called ‘In the Arms of Unconsciousness- Women, Feminism and the Surreal’ at Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney. A cross generational survey exhibition featuring the work of 22 Australian leading and significant female contemporary artists.

She is represented in Sydney by Brenda Colahan Fine Art Sydney and Internationally by Marie Gallery5 and Art Advisory Malta and Galerie Heimat in France.