Louise Neiland was born in Dublin in 1968 and studied at Camberwell College of Art & Design in London from 1987 to 1988 before completing her degree at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin in 1991. She returned to college to study for an MA in Fine Art (Painting) at NCAD in 2006 and graduated in 2008. She lives and works in Dublin.
In her work Neiland has engaged with the challenge of depicting the nebulous and intangible nature of time through the use of still images, a subject to which she is attracted because of its infinite and non-physical nature. Despite the apparent impossibility of capturing these elements in two-dimensional pictoral form, she attempts to create images that relate to this understanding and measurement of time, and her lyrical paintings investigate her subject with an extraordinary richness of tone. The paintings describe a series of happenings - some aspects of which are real, and others fictional. The characters and elements portray tangible positions in time and space, and from those positions one can calibrate each individual world. Outside the images these worlds couldn't exist. Each presents its own space, which is a place where different times can exist.
Louise Neiland has exhibited in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Two solo exhibitions of her work, Calibration (2018) and Landfall (2013) have taken place at Taylor Galleries. Her work is represented in private and public collections including the OPW / State Art Collection, Rabo Bank, Dvblinia, Microsoft, IADT and Electric Ireland.