Louise Purvis

B. 1968

Sculptor Louise Purvis born in Pahiatua, 1968, currently lives between Auckland and Kauaeranga Valley, near Thames. She completed her Diploma in Design at Waiariki Polytechnic in 1990. Louise’s primary mediums are stone and metals. Her works often have a simplicity to them which belies their actual making.

Career highlights include a survey show at H2O Dowse Art Museum (The Dowse), 1995 and the successful large scale sculpture on Waiheke Island, ‘Dispensary’ constructed for Sculpture on the Gulf, 2009. Other large scale public commissions including: ‘Te Puna Wai Ora’, Petone (2003); ‘Promise boat’, Edmiston Trust, Auckland Domain (2004); ‘Catchment’, Waitakere City Council (2006); ‘Seismic’, Wellington; and ‘Landmap’, Ishou University, Taiwan; ‘Esturine’, Hobsonville Point (2015). Louise has been exhibiting at Bowen Galleries since 1982.

• C87300, 2023
• Studio findings, 2015
• Shelter, 2012
• Hanging together, 2012
• Paper, gold, silver, 2011
• formed land, 2009
• Tributary, 2007
• Louise Purvis, 2005