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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creator of
Waterveil
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Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Germination Series
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Medium
Duraclear, shinkolite acrylic, oil, pigment

88.6 × 55.3 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Carbon Capture
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Medium
Duraclear, shinkolite acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

3 panels, 100 × 182 × 9.5 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
L & R Ischaemic Land
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Medium
Duraclear, shinkolite acrylic, oil, pigment

127.8 × 69.8 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Transfusion of Phloem
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Medium
C-type photograph, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

5 panels; 98.5 × 270 × 5.5 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Humidity of Respiration
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Medium
Duraclear, shinkolite acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

6 panels, 100 × 263 × 9.5 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Transfusion of Xylem
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Medium
C-type photograph, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

4 panels, 98.5 × 310 × 5.5 cm

 
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creator of
The Glass Mirage
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Medium
Duraclear, shinkolite acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

3 panels, 100 × 214 × 9.5 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Ashen Salt
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Medium
Duraclear, shinkolite acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

5 panels, 100 × 146 × 9.5 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Interstitial Memory of a Fluid Land
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Medium
Duraclear, shinkolite acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

5 panels, 100 × 223 × 9.5 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
DIvining Fluids
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Medium
Duraclear, shinkolite acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

4 panels, 100 × 168 × 9.5 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
From Botanical Residues (After the Great Glasshouses)
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Medium
 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Spectres in Glass
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silkscreened toughened glass

From the Botanical Glasshouses series; 12 sheets; 120 × 530 × 10 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Spectres of Loss (Selva Seeds)
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Medium
duraclear, photographs, acrylic

110 × 205 × 81 cm total, 17 pieces, 29.5 × 29.5 cm each

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Cellular Gardens
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stainless steel, mild steel, acrylic, blown glass, rainforest plants

dimensions variable

 
creator of
Resilience
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URL
http://www.galeriedusseldorf.com.au/GDArtists/LaurenceJanet/JL2003_04/source/laurencesideon.html
 
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creator of
Emphysema
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pigmented ink jet prints, latex, silicon, mineral pigments

installation view (far right); 240 × 160 × 60 cm

 
creator of
Australian War Memorial, Hyde Park, London
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In collaboration with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Memory, Fall
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Medium
Duraclear, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

90 × 291 × 10 cm; Potsdam & Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Within the Glass
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Medium
Duraclear, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

40 × 309 × 7.5 cm; Alvar Aalto Studio, Helsinki, Finland

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Memory, Enclosed
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Medium
Duraclear, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment

120 × 215 × 10 cm; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Greenspace No. 3
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Medium
Duraclear, acrylic, steel

100 × 314.5 × 9 cm; House Hedge, Scented Rose, Tasmania

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Liquid Green
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Medium
Duraclear, acrylic, aluminium

120 × 468 × 10 cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
The Breath We Share
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Medium
glass, steel, ceramic-fired screenprint, silver birch trees

Sidney Myer Commemorative Sculpture Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Elixir
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Permanent installation for Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan

 
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  • Tsumari Art Triennial (exhibited at)
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  • [Solo exhibition] (exhibited at)
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  • Janet Laurence: unfold (exhibited at)
  • Blindspot: an installation (exhibited at)
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  • The madonna in the stone has a memory (exhibited at)
  • Muses: Janet Laurence: artist in the museum (exhibited at)
  • Janet Laurence: project show (exhibited at)
  • Review (exhibited at)
  • Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection (exhibited at)
  • Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales: Hang No. 1 (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Australian Women Artists from the Collections of the Toowoomba Art Gallery and the University of Southern Queensland (exhibited at)
  • Women Artists from the Maitland City Gallery Collection (exhibited at)
  • Osmosis (exhibited at)
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