Louise Wallace (b. 1970 Belfast) is an artist, writer and educator. She is the winner of the Oil Award, Jackson's Art Prize (2024) and was shortlisted for the BEEP Painting Prize (2022) and longlisted for the John Moore's Painting Prize (2020). She has exhibited her paintings nationally and internationally and had her first institutional solo show Midnight Feast at The MAC Belfast (2023). That work is explored in the Journal of Contemporary Painting, volume 10, issue 1-2 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp_00070_4  Her work is in several private and public collections including UK Government Art collection, Arts Council Northern Ireland and Ulster University. 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). She is the recipient of several bursaries and awards including Support for the Individual Artist (2022) and Arts and Humanities Research Council funding (2023, 2024). Wallace completed her PhD in 2005 at Belfast School of Art where she currently works as a lecturer in painting.