LAUREN O'CONNOR
MODERN LOVE
Pushing and pulling paint is a laborious, endless exercise and a joyous one. What emerges are psychic and imagined environments built through repetitive layering and intuitive mark making. Milky whites, sherbet pinks, acid yellow and carbon black recall eucalypts, evening skies and a freshly burnt landscape.
40 x 40 cm Acrylic on Board $750
40 x 40 cm Acrylic on Board $750
90 x 60cm Acrylic on Board $1200
90 x 60cm Acrylic on Board $1200
40 x 60cm Acrylic on Board $850
40 x 60cm Acrylic on Board $850
Lauren O'Connor
2013 – 2017
Graduated Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Journalism)
University of Technology, Sydney
2018 - 2020
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)
National Art School, Darlinghurst
Lauren O’Connor is an emerging artist and a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the National Art School, Darlinghurst.
She is interested in duality - two halves of a whole, parallels, harmony and opposition. Her paintings are built by layering marks to create a rich field of colour on a plywood surface. Her experiences in nature and observations of the Australian landscape are revealed - often reduced to their essential elements through flatness and abstraction.
After studying journalism and working in radio in her early twenties she decided to make a career change and pursue creative arts. Recently, Lauren has been working on the South Coast of NSW with preschool children, running drawing workshops as part of a bushfire arts grant - teaching but mostly learning.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Black Lives Matter Art Auction show – 321 Crown Street exhibition space
Rural Fire Service Art Auction show – GoodSpace Chippendale
2021
Hidden Harvest The Art of Food Waste exhibition – Contemporary Art Space Wollongong
To Tend To,
Female artists group show at Point Five Gallery, Marrickville
I Came to See,
Public and interactive group show in Martin Place, Customs House and Barangaroo – Sydney CBD. Curated with funding from Transport NSW
Coming Home
Landscape group show at Art House gallery, Rushcutter’s Bay
Modern Love,
Abstract group show at A K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
PRIZES
2020
Finalist in the Kangaroo Valley Art Prize
Finalist in the Tony White Memorial Art Prize
2019
Second Place in the Belle Property Bowral Landscape Prize
2018
Finalist in Kangaroo Valley Art Prize
2020
Winner of the AACI Internship at National Art School – which funds a recent graduate to travel and work at the Ernabella Arts Management in the Pukatja Community in remote South Australia