October 2009 - Janet Laurence

title_ Translucidus date_ 2002 location_ commission for Qantas Lounge, Sydney International Airport, Australia

title_ Within the Glass year_ 2003 architecture_ Alvar Aalto Studio, Helsinki, Finland exhibition_ Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia medium_ duraclear, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment size_ 40 x 309 x 7.5cm

Vimeo Link An installation with moving image and sound in a darkened space into which one is immersed. A double projection video work screened between a series of transparent tulle veils directly on the wall, 3000mm height from floor. On the wall behind are 2 convex mirrors also veiled in black tulle. The mirrors reflect […]

title_ The Memory of Lived Spaces date_ 2008 materials_ Duraclear, acrylic location_ T2, Changi Airport, Singapore

title_ Memory Enclosed year_ 2003 architecture_ Museum Boijamans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands exhibition_ Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia medium_ duraclear, acrlyic, aluminium, oil, pigment size_ 120 x 215 x 10cm location_ Private Collection

title_ Verdant year_ 2003 series_ The Verdant Series

Title_ Memory Fall

Title_ Crimes Against the Landscape: Styx Forest Year_ 2007 Exhibited_ Bildkultur Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Title_ Transpiration: The Breathing of Plants Year_ 2009 Location_ Private Residence, Sydney

title_ Space Dissolving date_ 2004 architecture_ Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelon, Spain exhibition_ Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia materials_ duraclear, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigments size_ 500 x 272 x 10cm

title_ Minerals Depositing (from the Verdant series) date_ 2004 archiecture_ Kröller-Müller Museum, De Hoge Veluwe National Park, The Netherlands exhibition_ Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia medium_ Duraclear, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigments size_ 100 x 378 x 10cm photo_ Andrus Lipsys

title_ Greenspace date_ 2003 materials_ Duraclear, acrylic, glass

title_ Edge of the Trees date_ 1995 materials_ sandstone, wood, steel, oxides, shells, honey, bones, zinc, glass, sound, 29 pillars location_ Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House, Sydney Australia collaboration_ Fiona Foley text_ A sculptural Installation curated by Peter Emmett Both an exhibit of the museum and a public sculpture, on […]

title_ Australian War Memorial, London date_ 2003 materials_ engraved granite, bronze size_ 55m long location_ Hyde Park Corner, London, UK collaboration_ Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects

title_ Tomb of the Unknown Soldier date_ 1993 materials_ four pillars, glass, wood, nickel, silver marble, each 11 m x 0.6 m location_ Hall of Memory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra collaboration_ Tonkin Zulaikha Harford Architects

title_ A Garden For Edna Walling date_ 2000 materials_ glass, aluminium, shinkolite, acrylic, Duraclear, oil, glaze pigments location_ private collection, Melbourne Australia photos_ John Gollings

title_ Veiling Space: Incarnations date_ 2001 materials_ hanging voile, glass, sulphur, laboratory glass location_ Uniting Church, Paddington, Sydney, Australia curated_ by Rod Pattenden photos_ Peter Solness text_ Ah, not to be cut off not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars The inner – what is it? if not intensified […]

title_ Memory Matter date_ 1992-95 materials_ stainless steel, black steel, photograph, zinc, aluminium, wood, veneer, oil, wax, burnt wood

title_ In Stance Of Memory (Garden of the Jewish Museum, Berlin) date_ 2005 materials_ Duraclear on shinkolite, oxides and ash in oil rusted steel exhibited_ Art Gallery of New South Wales photos_ Diana Panuccio text_ The Garden is already a layered space – its aesthetic and natural qualities often veil its symbolic meanings or reveal […]

title_ Forensic date_ 1991 materials_ lead, ash, wood, photograph, straw, laboratory glass, Perspex, fluorescent lights and X-rays size_ 600 x 700 cm exhibited_ Wharf 2, Sydney, 1991 collection_ Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

title_ 49 Veils date_ 1998 location_ windows for the Central Synagogue, Bondi, Sydney Australia collaboration_ Jisuk Han

title_ Water Veil date_ 2006 location_ Council House 2 (CH2)Building, Melbourne, Australia client_ Melbourne City Council text_ A diaphanous, experiential and reflective glass veil that transforms the window between the foyer and the public space of the street into a membranous fluid space, a space of seemingly non-fixity within the urban context. The work expresses […]

title_ Transpiration

title_ Trace Elements date_ 1977 materials_ sandstone blocks from various demolished Sydney buildings, with text of extinct species in iron oxide size_ dimensions variable exhibited_ Australian Perspecta 1997: Between Art and Nature, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

title_ Trace Efface date_ 1991 materials_ treated photographs, ash, wood, glass, each unit collection_ Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney size_ 55 x 65 cm

title_ Solids by Weight Liquids by Measure (alchemical plates from the Periodic Table series). date_ 1993 materials_ seven metals, oil, various substances and laboratory glass size_ 3 x 5 m exhibited_ Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

title_ Second Exposure (from the Periodic Table series) date_ 1992-93 materials_ lead, glass, salt, sulphur, mercury, X-ray, various substances, lily, fluorescent lights, room size 5 x 5 m room size_ 5 x 5 m exhibited_ “The Boundary Rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney”, Bond Stores, Sydney Australia photos_ Tim Marshall

title_ Sodium Spill (from the Periodic Table series) date_ 1997 materials_ Aluminium, various pigments, oil glaze

title_ Measure of Light (from the Periodic Table series) date_ 1993 materials_ salt, fluorescent light, stainless steel, lead, aluminium, laboratory glass, wax, various minerals and X-rays size_ room size 14 x 14 m exhibited_ Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane photos_ Richard Stringer

title_ Less Stable Elements date_ 1996 materials_ glass, wood, aluminium, oxides, leaf mulch, seeds and oil size_ 7 x 25 m exhibited_ Newcastle University Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia photos_ Terrace Hollows

title_ In The Shadow date_ 2000 materials_ fog, casuarina forest, bulrushes, resin, wands with stainless steel bases (height 2–9 m), text (numbers indicate water chemistry monitoring) exhibited_ installed along a creek crossed by three bridges, Olympic Park, Homebush Bay, Sydney Australia text_ In the shadow is an environmental art work which creates an atmospheric zone […]

title_ Elixir date_ 2005 materials_ wooden traditional house, glass panel screenprinted with poured paint and plant and fluids, blown-glass vials, plant extracts steeped in shochu, laboratory glass exhibited_ permanent installation for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan photos_ Shigeo Anzai and Janet Laurence sponsor_ Asahi Glass Corporation and Asahi Beer Co text_ A botanical, glassy environment within […]

title_ Selva Veils date_ 2005 materials_ duraclear, photographs, acrylic exhibited_ Sherman Galleries – Sydney, Drill Hall – Canberra, Lawrence Wilson Gallery University of Western Australia – Perth, Arc One Gallery – Melbourne.

title_ Landscape and Residues (Carbon Planting) date_ 2006 materials_ Duraclear, shinkolite acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigment size_ Various

title_ Heartshock date_ 2008 materials_ silican tubing, glass vials, pigmented fluids, tree branch size_ 7m x 4m x 5m exhibited_ Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Handle with Care, Art Gallery of South Australia text_ Curator’s Statement_ Janet Laurence has had a long and profound engagement with the ‘life-world’. Spanning a period of over twenty-five years, […]

title_ Cellular Gardens (Where Breathing Begins) date_ 2005 materials_ stainless steel, mild steel, acrylic, blown glass, rainforest plants, dimensions variable collection_ MCA

title_ The Memory in Glass (Crimes against the Landscape series: Styx Valley) date_ 2008 materials_ Duraclear, polished aluminium, acrylic exhibited_ Arc One Gallery

title_ Water Falling Freeze date_ 2000 materials_ diffused layers of painted glass over patinated copper, stainless steel, paint, 8 x 8 x 0.5 m location_ private collection, Sydney, Australia

title_ Veil of Trees date_ 1999 materials_ 100 red forest gums (Eucalyptus terreticornis), 21 glass panels – laminated and enclosing seeds and ash with Australian poetry, Corten-steel panels containing LED lighting location_ Sydney Sculpture Walk, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney, Australia collaboration_ Jisuk Han text_ Veil of Trees In this installation of 1999 (with […]

title_ transient in light date_ 2008 location_ private residence, melbourne, australia

title_ The Breath We Share date_ 2003 materials_ glass, steel, ceramic-fired screenprint, silver birch trees exhibited_ Sidney Myer Commemorative Sculpture, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia photos_ John Gollings

title_ Ghost glasshouse date_ 2003 materials_ seraphic-fired screenprinted glass, stainless steel, texts of extinct botanical species, 5 x 1.5 x 2 m artist’s statement_ A GHOST GLASS HOUSE FOR LOST BOTANICAL SPECIES A glass structure – between a maze and a conservatory. A reflective, contemplative space of memory. A structure that captures ephemerality. A space […]

title_ Botanical Residues (after the Great Glasshouse) date_ 2005 materials_ duraclear, photographs on acrylic

title_ Memory Fall/Natural and Unnatural Histories year_ 2004 materials_ Duraclear, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigments exhibited_ Sherman Galleries, Ian Potter Museum Melbourne, Lake Macquarie Gallery (The Museum Effect)

title_ Unfold date_ 1997 materials_ Photographs on Duraclear, glass, oil, pigments, 450 x 1200 x 200 cm. exhibited_ Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia and Nagoya, Japan photos_ Jenni Carter

title_ Stilled Lives date_ 2000 materials_ Glass showcases displaying selected specimens and objects from the collections of Museum Victoria. exhibited_ Melbourne Museum, Australia photos_ John Gollings artist’s statement_ “Stilled Lives” Showcases for Melbourne Museum The collection of the Museum of Victoria is an overwhelming vast horizontal and vertical world of objects. Collected, classified, archived, arranged, […]

title_ Muses: Into Light date_ 2000 materials_ specimens from the collection of Melbourne Museum exhibited_ The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia

title_ Birdsong date_ 2006 materials_ Assembly of taxidermised bird specimens from the Australian Museum, suspended acrylic ring, sounds of birdcalls and wing flutters. exhibited_ Object Gallery, Sydney, Australia exhibition audio_ Ross Gibson in collaboration with Jane and Philip Ulman photos_ Keith Saunders text_ Thinking about titles to conjure sleep, dream, birdsong, waking… To create an […]