Mary-Louise Edwards

Born 1966, Sydney, New South Wales.

Mary-Louise Edwards (M-L) is an artist based in regional Victoria, with a studio on Wadawurrung country (Geelong/Djilang, Australia).

Born in Sydney in 1966, she moved to Brisbane in childhood and has lived in Melbourne since 1997, initially relocating to undertake postgraduate study at the Victorian College of the Arts. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Queensland College of Art and a Master of Fine Art by Research from Monash University. M-L resumed artmaking in 2025 after a ten-year hiatus.

M-L’s practice today, grounded in painting and drawing, is particularly informed by mid-twentieth-century abstraction. Earlier works explored sculptural relief through recycled textiles and everyday materials while retaining a persistent painterly language.

I enjoy the challenge of using iterative processes of marking, accretion, and erasure to explore ways of responding to place, often through the obscuring of text as a starting point. Layered surfaces of material and colour slowly emerge as the primary image.

M-L has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Queensland and Victoria since 1988.

Her work has been shown at the National Gallery of Victoria, Craft Victoria, and in Australian art prizes. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. Her work is held in public, corporate, and private collections in Australia, the UK, and India.