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For the British author and cookery writer, see Janet Laurence (author).

Janet Laurence (born 4 March 1947)[1] is an Australian artist, based in Sydney, who works in mixed media and installation. Her work has been included in major survey exhibitions, nationally and internationally and is regularly exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne and Japan.

Laurence's work explores a relationship to the natural world, often from an architectural context. She has exhibited in galleries and outside in site-specific projects, often involving collaborations with architects, landscape architects and environmental scientists.

Biography

Laurence is an environmental artist. Over more than 35 years she has made public artworks and site-specific installations. A recent project, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef for both the Paris Climate Change Conference (2015),[2] presented one of Australia's greatest natural wonders to an international audience gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2015. Laurence's artwork includes photos, videos and natural material like bleached corals and shells. It also features fish and turtle specimens borrowed from the Australian Museum and Paris's Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, where it was displayed.[3]

Laurence lives and works in Sydney. A recipient of both a Rockefeller[citation needed][4] and Churchill Fellowship,[citation needed][4] she was a Trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW from 1995 to 2005,[5] on the VAB Board of the Australia Council and is currently a Visiting Fellow at COFA NSW University. She is also a council member of Voiceless, the animal protection institute.[6]

Laurence was the subject of John Beard's winning entry for the 2007 Archibald Prize.[7] The portrait features Laurence in a moment of reflection, captured in black and white, but textured with light and shade. The pair are close friends and the collaboration lends itself to a sense of double portraiture with the artist-as-subject.[8]

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Permanent site-specific works

  • 2003: Elixir, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan, permanent installation[citation needed][12]
  • 2003: The Breath We Share, Sidney Myer Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic[citation needed]
  • 2006: Waterveil, CH2 Building for Melbourne City Council, Melbourne[citation needed]
  • 2007: The Memory of Lived Spaces, Changi T3 Airport Terminal, Singapore[citation needed]
  • 2010: Ghost, Lake Macquarie Gallery, NSW[citation needed]
  • 2011: Tarkine (For a World in Need of Wilderness), Macquarie Bank, London, UK[citation needed]
  • 2015: Veiling Glass Medicine Maze, Novartis Sydney NSW[citation needed]

Awards and grants

  • 1982: Gold Coast City Art Purchase Award, Qld[citation needed]
  • 1986: Woollahra–Waverley Art Prize, Sydney[citation needed]
  • 1994: Pring Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney[citation needed]
  • 1994: Lake Macquarie Art Prize, NSW[citation needed]
  • 1994: Kedumba Drawing Award, Wentworth Falls, NSW[citation needed]
  • 1995: Royal Australian Institute of Architects ‘Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design’ for First Government House Place, Sydney, in collaboration with Fiona Foley and Denton Corker Marshall Architects[13]
  • 1996: Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT[14]
  • 1997: Rockefeller Foundation (residency), Bellagio, Italy[citation needed]
  • 1996–98: Australia Council Fellowship[citation needed]
  • 1999: National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), Award for Art in the Built Environment, Australia, for 49 Veils[citation needed]
  • 2000: McGeorge Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Melbourne[citation needed]
  • 2003: New Work Grant, Australia Council[citation needed]
  • 2006: Churchill Fellowship[15]
  • 2008–ongoing: Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney[citation needed]
  • 2009: New Work Grant – Established, Australia Council[citation needed]
  • 2010: Alumni Award for the Arts, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney[citation needed]
  • 2013: John Glover Art Prize, Tasmania[citation needed]

Collections

Key collections in which Laurence's work is held include: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia,[16] NGA, Canberra; AGNSW, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;[1] QAG, Brisbane; AGSA, Adelaide; Artbank Australia Macquarie Bank Collection, Kunstwerk Summlung Klein, Germany.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b "Janet Laurence". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Ségolène Royal présente ses voeux pour cette année 2016 - vidéo Dailymotion". Dailymotion. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. ^ Taylor, Andrew (15 September 2015). "Janet Laurence brings fragility of the Great Barrier Reef to Paris climate talks". Retrieved 5 March 2016 – via The Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. ^ a b "Now we see them - WHAT'S ON". Wentworth Courier. 31 January 2018.
  5. ^ Periz, Ingrid (17 May 2016). "Collector's Dossier: Janet Laurence" (PDF). Art Collector. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Voiceless, the animal protection institute".
  7. ^ http://www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/winners/archibald
  8. ^ Iaccarino, Clara (3 March 2007). "A very big head takes the Archibald Prize - PORTRAIT CONTEST". Sydney Morning Herald.
  9. ^ Cousins, Kerry Ann (13 July 2010). "A sense of scale". Canberra Times.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ Merrillees, Dolla S. (2012). Janet Laurence After Eden. Paddington: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. ISBN 9780980776331.
  11. ^ "Janet Laurence: After Nature". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  12. ^ "The Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri: - Art in harmony with nature". The Japan News. 24 July 2003.
  13. ^ "Cultural + Civic". Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  14. ^ "The Alice Prize". Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  15. ^ "Janet Laurence". Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  16. ^ "Janet Laurence". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
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