Lauren O'Connor
Artist Profile
Photograph by Will Mansfield
Born 1994, Bowral, Australia
Lives & Works – Sydney (Eora)
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.
Exhibitions
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30 Years of Arthouse Gallery — Summer Edition
7 December 2024 - 1 March 2025Over the past three decades, Arthouse Gallery has distinguished itself as one of Australia's leading contemporary art galleries. Currently representing over forty artists, the gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary this...Read more -
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Two Moons 7 - 30 March 2024Lauren O’Connor’s practice reminds us that the natural world is in constant flux, re-affirmed in each painting to the point of mantra. Her works are disorderly stratums of decisive, colourful...Read more -
Arthouse Group Show
Summer – Part 1 9 - 27 January 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to begin 2024 with 'Summer' featuring a selection of new and exciting works from our stable of artists. This coming year features solo shows by newly–represented,...Read more -
Arthouse Group Show
Present Tense 15 June - 1 July 2023Read more
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Group Show
Paper 4 May - 10 June 2023'Paper & Clay' brings together the work of twenty-nine Australian artists traversing the timeless materiality of two enduring artforms. Unencumbered by dense conceptual wilderness, the works in this show posit...Read more -
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Eating Wild Honey 24 June - 16 July 2022Perceptions of place – in all its theoretical and physical vicissitudes – coalesce in the paintings of Lauren O’Connor. Working with hand-mixed acrylics, gouache and ink, the artist responds to...Read more
Available Works
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Lauren O'ConnorTaking a left turn along the beaten track, radio loud and stars wheeling above us (Barkindji Country), 2024acrylic on board125 x 96.5 cm (framed)$4,990
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Lauren O'ConnorFalls – Aliwaniwanyinya APY Lands SA, 2023acrylic on board122 x 90 cm, 123.5 x 92.5 cm (framed)$4,990
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Lauren O'ConnorGunguddy Love Letter, 2023acrylic and mixed media on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)$1,990
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Lauren O'ConnorMountains and Scribbly Gums, 2023acrylic and mixed media on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)$1,990
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Lauren O'ConnorHeart Formation, 2024acrylic on board30.5 x 40 cm, 33 x 42.5 cm (framed)$1,200
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Lauren O'ConnorDaphne, 2024acrylic on board28 x 40 cm, 30.5 x 42.5 cm (framed)$1,200
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Lauren O'ConnorSagittarius, 2024acrylic on board40 x 29 cm, 42.5 cm x 31.5 cm (framed)$1,200
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Lauren O'ConnorStudy of Waterfall, Barrengarry Mountain, 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper59.5 x 41.5 cm (unframed)$700
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Lauren O'ConnorUntitled II, 2022acrylic on paper59.5 x 42 cm (unframed)$650
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Lauren O'ConnorRibbon gum & dry shade, 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper41.5 x 29.5 cm (unframed)$600
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Lauren O'ConnorSpilt Turpentine , 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper41.5 x 29.5 cm (unframed)$600
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Lauren O'ConnorYour garden at the end of summer, Yuin Country, 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper29.5 x 41.5 cm (unframed)$600
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Lauren O'ConnorFlowering gums, 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper29.5 x 41.5 cm (unframed)$600
News
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Multiple artists announced as finalists in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2024
Campbelltown Arts Centre 24 September 2024We are thrilled to share that ten of our artists have been announced as finalists in the prestigious Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2024. Congratulations to...Read more -
Lauren O'Connor & Naomi Hobson announced as finalists in the Mosman Art Prize
Mosman Art Gallery 31 July 2024Congratulations to Naomi Hobson & Lauren O'Connor who have been announced as finalists in the prestigious Mosman Art Prize 2024. The Mosman Art Prize is...Read more -
Arthouse Gallery artists part of Women for Change
Sibyl Centre, Womens College at the University of Sydney. 22 February 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to be participating in a major fundraising event for Women for Change. The inaugural IGNITE Art Show is a silent auction...Read more -
Lauren O'Connor announced as a winner of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
Brett Whiteley Studio 19 October – 26 November 2023It is with great excitement that we announce that Lauren O’Connor is one of the winners of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. Judged by...Read more
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Multiple Arthouse Gallery artists announced as finalists in the Paddington Art Prize
Susan Baird, Jo Bertini, Jo Davenport, Lauren O'Connor and Robyn Sweaney 14 September 2023October 12-22, 2023 Cooee Art Leven 17 Thurlow Street Redfern NSW. We are delighted to announce that Susan Baird, Jo Bertini, Jo Davenport, Lauren O'Connor...Read more -
Lauren O'Connor announced as a finalist in the National Flow Watercolour Prize
Wollongong Art Gallery 2 September 2023Lauren O'Connor has been announced as a finalist in the FLOW Contemporary Watercolour Prize which was judged by Beatrice Gralton, Senior Curator of the Brett...Read more -
Several artists announced as finalists in the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize
Manly Art Gallery & Museum 4 — 27 August 2023Manly Art Gallery & Museum Curl Curl Creative Space and Mona Vale Creative Space Gallery 4 — 27 August 2023 We are delighted to announce...Read more -
Lauren O'Connor a feature artist in 'Australian Abstract' exhibition
Michael Reid Art Bar 26 May — 25 JuneAustralian Abstract at Michael Reid Art Bar 26 May — 25 June In association with her feature in 'Australian Abstract' by Amber Creswell Bell, Lauren...Read more
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