Abundance, Solo Exhibition
7th-9th November, Piazza Gallery, Fremantle, wa
“There’s something about the light at this time of year in the Mid West. The way it shifts across the land, how it catches the wattle, which is wild after winter’s retreat. Lauren Kennedy knows this light intimately. She watches it from her property north of Jambinu/Geraldton, tracking its changes as she walks between her house and studio, the rain clouds gathering on the horizon, the whole sky opening up above her.:
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“Her paintings are landscapes, yes, but they’re also something else; meditations, acts of release. She works with water, lots of it, diluting her paints, looking for ways for the colours to lose control. She rolls out her linen outside, lets the wind blow it, and welcomes the drips. The work has movement, a kind of beautiful chaos that seems at odds with the stillness she finds in the act of making it.”
-Sophie Matthewson
“Within Lauren’s artwork, we find a sense of innate joy — the chaotic energy of the everyday and harsh realities of the Australian bush soothed by movement of the landscape.
This perspective is built through her extensive time in nature, sensitive observations and outdoor sketching.
As such, the paintings are less relative to representation; rather, to instil a connection to place — to let the marks breathe and exude energy. ”
— Emma-Kate Wison
