Lauren O'Connor

Through layered colour, impulsive mark-making and erasure, Lauren O'Connor brings the transient into view, invoking the complexities of memory and representation. Forms in nature are deconstructed and reformed in her paintings giving new interpretations of landscape. With a sense of alchemy, O’Connor conjures form through abstraction, with her radiant use of colour unfolding through loose brushstrokes and intertwining folds of paint. Her work is often infused with an introspective analysis of emotion and human experience, embedding this energy into the landscape where mountains, rivers, gums and the rhythms of nature emerge.

Lauren O'Connor is a graduate of the National Art School in Sydney and was announced as a winner of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2023. She has been a finalist in various prizes including the Fisher's Ghost Art Award (2024), Paddington Art Prize (2023, 2021), Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize (2023), Mosman Art Prize (2022, 2024) and was awarded the 2022 AACI Internship placement at Ernabella Arts Centre, APY Lands. Her work is featured in Amber Creswell Bell’s forthcoming book on Australian Abstraction.