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Coffee & Croissants with Louise Mair
May 30 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
DEPOT Lounge
28 Clarence Street, Devonport
Saturday 30th May, 11 am
Louise Mair invites you to a closing gathering for her solo exhibition Integration.
Join us for coffee and croissants on the final weekend of the exhibition. This informal session offers an opportunity to spend time in the gallery, reflect on the work, and take part in open conversation with the artist and others in the community. It is a chance to share responses to the exhibition, discuss ideas, and connect over current creative practices.
Artwork: Louise Mair, Integration (2026), Acrylic and oil on plyboard with oak frame, 700 x 700 mm
About Integration
Integration, from the Latin root meaning “to make whole”, explores themes of belonging, transition and acceptance. The paintings emerge from the tension between multiple landscapes: those that have shaped us, those we inhabit in the present, and those we are in the process of creating.
Each work is developed through a layered process. Early marks are guided by memory rather than direct observation, resulting in loose, energetic foundations. These are gradually built upon, with layers scraped back to reveal earlier gestures and traces of time held within the surface.
The square format disrupts traditional portrait and landscape conventions, creating a contained field where shifting geographies coexist. These works operate as spaces of negotiation rather than fixed depictions.
Alongside past and present sits a third element, the viewer. The paintings remain intentionally open and unresolved, inviting personal interpretation and lived experience into each work.
About Louise Mair
Louise Mair is a Scottish-born multi-disciplined artist living and working in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Louise Mair is a multi-disciplined artist, completing her B.A Hons in Fine Art at Plymouth University in Exeter. Here, she specialised in sculpture and installation.
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland and now living in Aotearoa, New Zealand, Louise is currently creating loose, energetic, multi-layered landscape paintings in acrylic and oil. Her practice explores themes of belonging and transition. How place and experience are carried within us, layered over time, continually reshaping to form our current experience and mold the world around us.
She has enjoyed over 30 years of creating, exhibiting, collaborating and curating in the U.K, Europe and Aotearoa. Studying for a year in Paphos, Cyprus under the painter Stass Paraskos. Closer to home, she was one of the standout finalists from the 2025 Devonport Art Battle – and selected as a DEPOT Top Pick.
