JANET LAURENCE will be launching Karina Dias Pires’s new book ‘Artists at Home’ tonight!
This fascinating publication features interviews and images with insights into the studio practice of 32 Australian women artists. Speaking on the impact of ‘home’ in her art making, Laurence will be in conversation with Dias Pires, alongside Camie Lyons and Louise Olsen.
Thursday, 1 December, 5—7PM
Olsen Gallery, Sydney.
Janet Laurence in her studio. Photo: Jacquie Manning.
This afternoon at 4pm, hear JANET LAURENCE deliver the Gilbert Fellowship Lecture at the Sydney College of the Arts.
Janet Laurence’s work echoes architecture while retaining organic qualities and a sense of instability and transience. Her work occupies the liminal zones or meeting places of art, science, imagination and memory. Profoundly aware of the interconnection of all life forms, Laurence often produces work in response to specific sites or environments using a diverse range of materials. Alchemical transformation, history and perception are underlying themes in her exhibition work. Hear the Gilbert Fellow speak to her practice and illustrious career.
JANET LAURENCE joined MGA Director Anouska Phizacklea, along with other Bowness Photography Prize finalists Kiron Robinson, and Amos Gebhardt to discuss their diverse practices.
Exhibition continues until November 13.
JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, CYRUS TANG and LYDIA WEGNER feature in this years Bowness Prize exhibition.
Over the last 17 years, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country.
Available to view at The Monash Gallery of Art until November 13.
Installation images courtesy of Monash Gallery of Art, photographed by Andrew Curtis.
JANET LAURENCE features in a fantastic interview with Radio Adelaide about her time at Casey Research Station as the 2021 Antarctic Arts Fellow.
Explaining the process of creating her new series "Ice has a memory and the colour is blue" Laurence remarks,
“I had a studio in the science building, and one of the glaciologists came in which a huge chunk of ice for me to make artwork with. I suddenly went oh god I can actually use Antarctic glacial ice to make works. So, I made a series about ice melting which I thought was a fantastic metaphor about climate change.”
JANET LAURENCE, Ice has a memory, and the memory is blue, from the ‘Ice has a memory, and the memory is blue’ series, Antartica, 2022, Chromogenic print, Edition of 3 + 1 A/P, 120 x 180 cm.
JANET LAURENCE features in the new exhibition 'Earth Canvas' at The National Museum of Australia with her work 'Notes from the land: Biodiversity'.
"Earth Canvas showcases works by leading contemporary artists, developed in response to regenerative farming on properties situated between the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers in southern New South Wales.
The exhibition explores the creative experiences of regenerative farmers and the artists who spent time with them, their engagement with the land and their vision for a healthier world."
Janet Laurence, Notes from the land: Biodiversity, 2020, images printed on transparency floating about a mirror surface within an acrylic box.
CONGRATULATIONS are in order!
Janet Laurence, Cyrus Tang, Lydia Wegner, Honey Long and Prue Stent have all been shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Bowness Photography Prize.
The Bowness exhibition opens 29 September. However, if you can't wait that long, please visit ARC ONE where these fantastic artists are currently on display in our Viewing Room.
Janet Laurence, Zylum Flow, 2022, C-Type Photograph, aluminum, 100 x 156 cm.
JANET LAURENCE features in Gippsland Art Galleries latest exhibition Fragile Earth: Extinction with her work 'Zylum Flow'.
Curated by Louisa Waters and Melanie Caple the exhibition draws together the work of 60 artists as part of a new series of biennial exhibitions that will each explore different aspects of our changing climate and its effects on life on earth.
Open until August 28.
Janet Laurence, ‘Breath of the Forest’ from the ‘Theatre of Trees’ series, 2020, Silk Voile di-sublimation print, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.
JANET LAURENCE is included in the upcoming exhibition ‘Above the Canopy’ at Town Hall Gallery.
‘Above the Canopy’ is a major exhibition celebrating the rich and diverse beauty of the Australian natural environment.
Through hyperreal images of lush and verdant forests alongside detailed studies of insects, botany, birds and geology, the exhibition shows a deep appreciation for our majestic and awe-inspiring world.
JANET LAURENCE is speaking this week at The National Art School in a talk titled "What Can Art Do?"
The presentation will include an exclusive look into the artist’s three week project in Antartica at Casey research station, as the most recent Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow. As well as insights into her career focus on environmental actions and climate change.
JANET LAURENCE, Carbon Capture (From the series Landscape and Residue), 2008, Duraclear burnt wood, pigment on acrylic and mirror, 100 x 200 cm
JANET LAURENCE’S artwork Carbon Capture: From the series Landscape and Residue is included in a current exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
‘Listening to Music Played Backwards: Recent Acquisitions’ celebrates works in the Heide collection acquired over the past decade.
Open until July 31
Dani Marti, Installation View, ‘Terra Australis Revisited’, Galerie Ernst Hilger , Vienna, 2021.
JANET LAURENCE and DANI MARTI are included in the group exhibition ‘Terra Australis Revisited’, at Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna.
The legend of Terra Australis dates back to Roman times being the unknown land of the South. Now for the second time to Austria comes a group show of diverse Australian artists curated by collector and philanthropist Simon Mordant AO.
The exhibition was supported by the Australian Embassy Vienna and continues until 18 December 2021.
