Louise Wallace (b. 1970 Belfast) is an artist, writer and educator. She is the recipient of several bursaries and Arts Council awards, most recently receiving SIAP funding (2022) and Arts and Humanities Research Council funding (2023). She has exhibited her paintings nationally and internationally including the SoHo20 Gallery (New York), Siemens Art Space (Beijing) RUA Red (Dublin) and was shortlisted for the BEEP Painting Prize (2022). She had her first institutional solo show Midnight Feast at The MAC Belfast (2023). Her work is in several private and public collections including Arts Council Northern Ireland, Ulster University and Boyle Civic Collection, Sligo. Wallace co-curated and exhibited in Penumbra, a survey of contemporary Irish female painting at the F.E. McWilliam Gallery (2020). Her essay 'Who Killed Marthe Bonnard? Madness and morbidity in Pierre Bonnard's 'The Bath'' was published in the Journal of Contemporary Painting (2018) and she was an invited speaker on the work of Mary Swanzy at IMMA, Dublin (2018). She is co-curator of the retrospective Catherine McWilliams, Selected Works 1961 - 2021 at the F.E. McWilliam Gallery (2023) and the author of 'Hope is Something Rooted; The Work of Catherine McWilliams' in the Irish Arts Review, Spring 2023. Paintings from the Midnight Feast series were published in the British Council journal 'Difficult Conversations' (2023). Wallace completed her PhD in 2005 at Belfast School of Art where she currently works as a lecturer in painting.