Group Show 2010

Janet Laurence’s work explores a poetics of space and materiality through the creation of works that deal with our experiential and cultural relationship with the natural world.

Her work echoes architecture while retaining organic qualities and a sense of instability and transience. It 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.

Recently the pursuit has been to create spaces of immersion and reflection, spaces that play between perception and memory, through a language of veiling – of overlapping transparent and translucent layers – in order to form slow fluid reflective spaces.
 
Laurence’s work is represented in major Australian and international collections and has been included in many national and international survey exhibitions. She has completed many site specific and public artworks, often in collaboration with architects and environmental scientists.