Janet Laurence b. 1947

Also known as Janet Lawrence
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sculptor and installation artist, Janet Laurence is probably best known for her site-specific architectural collaborations including 'Edge of the Trees' with Fiona Foley for the Museum of Sydney and the Australian War Memorial for London's Hyde Park. A former trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in 2006 Laurence was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and in 2008 was undertaking a PhD in Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
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exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
exhibited at
Janet Laurence
Date
2007
Place
Wates House, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, England, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tsumari Art Triennial
Date
2006
Place
Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Janet Laurence
Date
2006
Place
Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Birdsong
Date
2006
Place
Object Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

With Ross Gibson

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Greenhouse
Date
2005
Place
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
[survey exhibition]
Date
2005
Place
ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tsumari Art Triennial
Date
2003
Place
Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Eden and the apple of Sodom
Date
2002
Place
University of South Australia
Description

Commissioned by the University of South Australia Art Museum to each create a new, major work. The exhibition is an independent initiative of the Art Museum, funded by the University. Embraced by the Adelaide Festival as a partnership.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
UNISAM exhibition archive; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Green, Erica. Eden and the apple of Sodom: Lauren Berkowitz, Antony Hamilton, Janet Laurence. Adelaide: University of South Australia Art Museum, c2002
ISBN 086803519X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Installation
exhibited at
Muses: Janet Laurence: artist in the museum
Date
2000
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

The exhibition combines three of Laurence’s works from 1997 to 2000: 'Unfold’, 'Unnatural Histories’ and 'Into Light’, produced for this exhibition and incorporating objects from the museum’s ornithology and mammalogy collections, accumulated over 100 years and is the result of her privileged access to objects from the Museum of Victoria’s collection and is the interpretation of the collection.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter University of Melbourne exhibition archive; http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ExtRels/Media/UN/archive/2000/521/muses.html (26/08/03); National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Muses: Janet Laurence: artist in the museum. [Parkville, Vic] : Ian Potter Museum of Art, 2000
ISBN 073402035X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Mixed media, Installation
exhibited at
Janet Laurence: unfold
Date
1998
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

The installation consisted of a corridor-like space of large glass sheets over which substances were poured.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report & OSS Survey file

Exhibition Catalogue:
A pamphlet was produced

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta
Date
1997
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Contemporary Australian Women Artists from the Collections of the Toowoomba Art Gallery and the University of Southern Queensland
Date
10 March 1995 - 2 April 1995
Place
Dalby Regional Gallery, Dalby, Qld
Description

Opened by Allison Dickson, Chancellor of the University of South Queensland, 9 March 1995.

Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection
Date
9 March 1995 - June 1995
Place
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description

Opened by Deborah Mills and the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, 8 March 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women Artists from the Maitland City Gallery Collection
Date
1 March 1995 - 31 March 1995
Place
Maitland City Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW
Description

Opened 8 March 1995.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales: Hang No. 1
Date
27 February 1995 - 16 April 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

See also the catalogue for Review

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Janet Laurence: the measure of light (from 'Periodic table' series)
Date
1993
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Supported by the Blanche Louisa Buttner Bequest.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
QAG annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
Seaman, Bill, Janet Laurence: the measure of light. Brisbane, QLD: Queensland Art Gallery, 1993. 6p: col and b&w ill

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
9th Biennale of Sydney
Date
1992
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Microcosm
Date
4 December 1991 - 21 December 1991
Place
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta
Date
1991
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
[Solo exhibition]
Date
1991
Place
Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Osmosis
Date
17 July 1990 - 18 August 1990
Place
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Blindspot: an installation
Date
1989
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, UNSW, Paddington, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
IDG archive printout; National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Blindspot: an installation / Janet Laurence. [Sydney, NSW]: Ivan Dougherty Galleyr, [1989]; [14] p : ill ; 30 cm
ISBN 0730561852

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Janet Laurence: project show
Date
1986
Place
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Wollongong City Gallery annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Sculpture, Installation
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