Selected Exhibitions

2024
Plant Carers (solo exhibition) - on tour - Port Pirie Regional Gallery

2023
Plant Carers (solo exhibition) at Post Office Projects Gallery Plant Carers exhibition and workshop at the Joinery, Adelaide
Plants and Plant Carers Guildhouse / UniSA Yungondi Building
Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize
Plant & Plant Carers, Yungondi, UniSA City West Campus

2022
The Heysen Prize for Landscape
Finalist Environmental Art & Design Prize 2022,
Plant Carers - Royal Adelaide Hospital 2022,
Shortlisted - Incinerator Art Award 2022: Art for Social Change Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize (Artwork Highly Commended)

2021
Plant Notes Wreath, Adelaide Botanic Gardens Gates - Ephemeral Mural
WAMA Art Prize finalist
Plant Notes, Santos Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Garden.
Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize Finalist, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
2020
Our Future in the Landscape, Adelaide Town Hall
Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize Finalist
Small Gifts for Street Corners (Croydon/West Croydon/Kilkenny suburbs street art)
2019
Tatiara Art Prize Finalist, Walkway Gallery
Memorial for Forgotten Plants, Sauerbier House 
2018
Memorial for Forgotten Plants, the Mill, Adelaide 
2014
Of Obscured Significance, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
2012
Toute Suite, St Morris Upholsterers, Adelaide 
2010
Arts workers in Indigenous communities – a response, artroom5, Adelaide
2009
Quiet Reader, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide 
2008
December Exhibition, artroom5, Adelaide 
2007
Met Tales, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide Centre for the Arts
2006
Things will be great, MOP, Sydney 
2004
A molecular history of everything, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Project for a Revolution, Westspace, Melbourne 
Birds and Bees, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
Manifesto, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide 
Downtown comes to Perth, Breadbox Gallery, Perth
Pucker, the Institute Port Adelaide  
2002
Plans & Diasters, Downtown Art Space  
Trace, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
2000
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Gerard and Goodman Building, Adelaide
Struth, Adelaide Fringe Event, Hindley Street, Adelaide
All I can do is knit…; Sue Tweddel Gallery, Adelaide Central School of Art
1999
20 x 20 Exhibition, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
Fin, Honours Graduate Exhibition, University of South Australia, City West Campus

Education

2008
Certificate IV in Training & Assessment
Charles Darwin University

2006 & 2007
Single subjects: Ceramics Studio Production & Intro to Ceramics
SA School of Art, UniSA

1996 - 1999
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours First Class)
SA School of Art, UniSA

Awards

2021
Graham F Smith Prize for Inspiring Environmental Debate - Adelaide Parklands Art Prize

2019
Tatiara Art Prize Award Winner 

2000
The Hill-Smith/Malaysia Airlines Travel Award, Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition

Articles

Artist interview: threatened plants inspire collaboration 2022

Plant Notes celebrates SA’s threatened flora InDaily Sept 2021

Spotlight: Louise Flaherty on ‘Our Future in the Landscape’ April 2020

Meet your Maker - The Adelaide Review June 2019

Adelaide exhibition guide - The Adelaide Review July 2019

Of Obscured Significance - The Adelaide Review October 2014

Professional Experience

2023
Rare Plants in Space - workshops for Create4Adelaide - Australia Space Discovery Centre

2022 - 2023
Understory: Postcards from Lobethal Bushland Park, commissioned by Fabrik Arts

2022
Project Assistant - Centenarian Portrait Project by Teenagers - SA

2021
Park Lands Project by OSCA commission artist
Guildhouse Collections Project - Adelaide Botanical Gardens (continuing from 2020)
Nature & Me - Drawing workshop for Trees for Life
Studio resident at Post Office Projects (Port Adelaide)

2020
Mural Artist with Fly Bird Fly - shopfront window (November)
Nature Festival Commissioned workshops Grassy Shadows in Rundle Mall (September)
Grasslands Draw With Me workshop series & online community exhibition (July & August)
Adhocracy residency with Vitalstatistix (August)
SALA Schools Artist in Residence Program with Lobethal Primary School (July & August)

2019
Artist in Residence at Women’s & Childrens Hospital – Arts in Health, WCH foundation
Sauerbier House culture exchange 3 month residency (April – June) 
Mural Artist with Fly Bird Fly – WestCare

2018
Studio Resident at the Mill (until 2021
Exhibition residency at the Mill (September- November) 
Guildhouse LimberUp Mentorsip (with artist Laura Wills)

2017
Studio resident (Fontanelle Studios Bowden)
2016
Mural Artist – West Croydon Train Station (Commissioned by DPTI)

2012 – 2015
Maternity leave (two blocks of maternity leave have been taken over this period)

2013
Casual Consultant (Barkly Regional Arts, Tennant Creek NT/Adelaide)

2008 – 2011
Arts Program Manager (Barkly Regional Arts, Tennant Creek NT)

2007 – 2008
Casual Tutor – Ceramics (Charles Darwin University, Tennant Creek NT) 

2005 – 2008
Administration Officer including SASA Gallery  (SA School of Art, UniSA)

2002 – 2007
Co-director/founder, voluntary (Downtown Art Space (Artist Run Initiative), Adelaide)