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For her second solo exhibition with BREENSPACE, Janet Laurence has made a new suite of photographs and wall-based constructions that continue her devotion to the vulnerable in the natural world.
Laurence has taken imagery from the Tarkine, an old growth forest in Tasmania, and constructed a multipanel, wall-based work. A green void is presented to us, depicting a verdant site now under threat, having recently been reopened for deforestation.
In a separate gallery images of animals in an Indonesiansanctuary are literally captured unaware, as a camera triggered by their movement shows them in their apparently ‘natural’ state. Laurence draws out the inherent tension between these two worlds, both of which are in a state of flux and danger.
Poised as if before the fall, these works explore the photographic moment, their subjects captured momentarily in time. They exist both as archive, and as a living index for the ‘wilderness’, that fabled, fragile and ghostly space that we always wish to be there, but so often overlook.
Janet Laurence lives and works in Sydney
Recent solo exhibitions include After Eden, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney 2012; In Memory of Nature at The Glasshouse, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2011; What can a garden be?, BREENSPACE, Sydney, 2010; Greenhouse, BildKultur Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany, 2007.
Group exhibitions include In the Balance: Art for a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010; 17th Biennale of Sydney, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 2010; Handle with Care: 2008 Adelaide Biennale, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008; Recovering Lives, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 2008.
Laurence’s work is represented in major Australian and international collections.
