title_ After Nature date_ 2019 exhibition_ After Nature, 1 March – 10 June, Level 1 Galleries location_ Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney description_ After Nature is an exhibition consisting of both survey and new works curated by Rachel Kent, opening next March at the MCA. The exhibition will express our relationship to our fragile environment and an awareness that we […]
title_ Lost Habitats year_ 2017 exhibition_ Nautilus Exhibition, Oldenburger Schloss medium_ laboratory glass, shells from the collection of the Landesmuseum Nature Und Mensch Oldenburg Project facilitated by an artists-in-residency fellowship at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany
title_ Matter of the Masters year_ 2017 exhibited_ Art Gallery of New South Wales Janet Laurence’s The matter of the masters is inspired by conservation research and analysis undertaken on Dutch old master paintings in the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands, especially works by Rembrandt. The field of paintings conservation, particularly the study of artist’s materials and […]
title_ Moving Plants date_ 2017 medium_ acrylic, scientific glass, plastic tubes, 3d prints, duraclear, dried plants, seeds, tulle, wood, mirrors exhibition_ Ronnebaeksholm 1, Naestved, Denmark description_ The transparent structure echoes botanical glasshouses and scientific laboratories. In boxes, we see plants in small flasks and Petri dishes, between glass sheets and alongside other objects like 3D prints and plastic […]
title_ IGA Berlin date_ 2017 medium_ steel, mesh, plastic tubes, acrylic, 3d print, acetate, herbal plants exhibition_ Views of a Landscape, IGA Berlin 2017 location_ Berlin, Germany description_ An experiential contemporary medicinal garden that immerses one into the historical, spiritual and mythological relationship with psychotropic plants. An invitation to understand the being of medicinal plants in a time when […]
title_ Frågil date_ 2016 medium_ acetate, paper, duraclear prints, mesh, laboratory glass, plastic tubes, fresh locally sourced herbs, 14m long table size_ 14m x 1m installation exhibition_ Cuenca Biennale, Ecuador images_ courtesy Alan Luckie download_ Cuenca PDF
title_ The Underlying date_ 2016 medium_ 12m dead Elm tree (2yrs dead), herbal plants, bandages exhibition_ The Pleasure of Love, 56th Belgrade October Salon images_ courtesy Nikola Marinkovic download_ Belgrade PDF
title_ Novartis : Medicinal Maze Inveiling Glass date_ 2016 medium_ 5 x 7 x 2.7m printed glass panels, medicinal plants location_ Novartis Campus: Sculpture and Medicinal Garden, Sydney, NSW description_ This glass garden for the Novartis Campus is based on notions of historical medicinal and physic gardens, using varying transparencies, translucency and opacity, the material and the […]
title_ Wingbeats (from the Verdant series) year_ 2003 architecture_ Kröller Müller Museum, Hoge Veluwe National Park, Netherlands exhibition_ Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia medium_ Duraclear, acrylic, aluminium, oil, pigments size_ 120 x 156 x 7.5cm
title_ The Brilliant Brief Moment (from Naturestruck series) year_ 2016 architecture_ Villa Tugendhat, Czech Republic exhibition_ Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia medium_ duraclear on acrylic size_ 100 x 208cm
title_ Deep Breathing Resuscitation for the Reef (Australian Museum) date_ 2016 medium_ Various wet specimens, corals, pigment, acrylic boxes, laboratory glass exhibition_ Australian Museum, Sydney NSW, Australia description_ Deep Breathing Resuscitation for the Reef is an installation that explores the effects of climate change affecting the Great Barrier Reef. The work was first exhibited in […]
title_ H2O: Water Bar date_ 2016 medium_ Various rain and spring waters, scientific glass vessels, acrylic mirror, printed panel exhibition_ Paddington Reservoir Gardens, Sydney NSW, Australia description_ H2O: Water Bar is a reflective, glassy glistening installation by Janet Laurence that allows you to sample a variety of water sourced from diverse regions of Australia. Outfitted […]
title_ Naturestruck year_ 2016 medium_ Mixed media installation: duraclear, oil glaze, acrylic, dye sublimation prints, polished stainless steel mirror exhibition_ Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia description_ ‘Naturestruck’ simultaneously explores environmental fragilities through a gathering of works from Laurence’s studio. These works explore the creation of botanical environments, both medicinal and historical.
Title_ Antrhopocene Year_ 2015 Exhibition_ FAS Contemporary, London, UK Description_ duraclear photograph on acrylic, mirror, aluminium and oil glaze.
title_ Deep Breathing-Resuscitation for the Reef year_ 2015 exhibition_ Muséum natinoal d’Histoire naturelle, Grande Galerie del’Évolution, Jardin des Plantes, Paris and the Palais de la Porte Doree, Aquarium Tropical, Paris description_ site specific installation, various materials, images and film projections, along with specimens drawn from the collections of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) and […]
title_ Waiting – A Medicinal Garden for Ailing Plants date_ 2010 exhibition_ Sydney Biennale 2010 description_ The work is a transparent mesh structure echoing both a botanical glasshouse and a museological scientific vitrine filled with plants (representing larger threatened environments) interconnected by scientific glass vessels. The medicinal cabinet/garden encloses various fluids and solids, creating a […]
title_ Bundanon year_ 2014-2016 exhibited_ Arthur Boyd Estate, NSW text_ The Treelines Track A treeline that that weaves a connection between the old and the new concept of landscape. A linear passage of trees forming a walking track that connects the natural bushland to the farmland and homestead garden to the new environmental regenerated zone. […]
An organism’s umwalt is the unique world in which each species lives. The world as its body represents it. The world formed by the very form of the organism. It is a sensory world of space, time, objects and qualities that form perceptual signs for living creatures each within their own bubble-like island of the […]
year_ 2012 collection_ Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia medium_ acrylic, scientific glass, dried plants, seeds, sulphur, salt, amethyst, taxidermied owls, shellac, tulle, wood, burnt bones, hand-blown glass, oil paint, mirrors size_ 180 x 160 x 350cm James Hatley Essay
Title_ Fugitive Year_ 2013 Exhibition_ Animate/Inanimate, TarraWarra Museum of Art Description_ site specific installation, photograph on acrylic, mirror, laboratory and hand blown glass, oil glaze, video projection, various animal specimens Download Artist Statement
Title_ Greeenation Year_ 2011 Exhibition_ Artisan Gallery, Brisbane Description_ mixed media installation, acrylic, plant specimens, blown glass vials
Title_ China Garden Year_ 2011 Exhibition_ Found/Lost, China Arts Projects, Osage Gallery, Beijing, China
title_ The Ferment year_ 2013 exhibition_ FAS Contemporary, London, UK description_ site specific installation, acrylic mirror, glass vials, oil glaze, various plant and animal specimens.
Title_ Photosyntheis Year_ 2013 Exhibition_ FAS Contemporary, London, UK Description_ duraclear photograph on acrylic, mirror, aluminium, oil glaze, hand blown vials and plant specimen.
Title_ Residue – Blood + Chlorophyll Year_ 2014 Exhibition_ Hugo Michell Gallery Adelaide Description_ site specific installation, rescued eucalypt tree, mirror, laboratory and hand blown glass, oil glaze, video projection, bones, dried plants Text by Deborah Bird Rose
title_ Alchemical Garden of Desire year_ 2012 exhibition_ McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery medium_ mixed media installation: acrylic vitrines, botanical specimens, laboratory glass and vessels, pigment, acrylic mirror, tubes and video projection
Presenting a new commission for Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), Janet Laurence’s work explores the poetics of space through the creation of works that deal with our experiential and cultural relationship with the natural world. Her work echoes architecture while retaining organic qualities and a sense of instability and transience. It occupies the liminal zones […]
title_ Resuscitation Garden (For an Ailing Plant). date_ 2011 materials_ Mesh, laboratory glass, acrylic, mirror, several plant species, seeds, water, medicinal tubing, salts, minerals, various fluids, organza wrapped botanic specimens, rice flour, plywood floor location_ Hong Kong Art Fair Artist Project Courtesy of Cat Street Gallery. description_ The Resuscitation Garden is a Medicinal Garden that […]
title_ Tarkine (For a World in Need of Wilderness) date_ 2011 materials_ Duraclear, acrylic, mirror, stainless steel wire location_ Macquarie Bank Foyer, London. description_ In the central area of the new large foyer of Macquarie Bank is a floating verdant wilderness, this new artwork is in stark contrast to the built up urban context of […]
title_ In Your Verdant View date_ 2010 location_ Hyde Building
title_What a Garden Could Be date_ 2010 exhibited_ Breenspace
title_ Possibilities for a Garden date_ 2010 exhibited_ Breenspace description_ Over twenty-five years Janet Laurence has ranged across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, working with pigments and ash, taxidermied birds and trees, scientific instruments and all manner of glass. Her work incorporating botanical elements has served a variety of purposes. The salvaged timbers in “Edge […]
title_ The Sound of Green date_ 2008 materials_ duraclear, stainless steel, oil on acrylic collection_ Department of Forestry, Canberra, ACT
title_ Frieze year_ 2005 exhibited_ Private House, Melbourne
title_ Glasshouse Series year_ 2008 materials_ Duraclear, mirror, oil and Acrylic exhibited_ Hugo Michelle Gallery Adelaide, Breenspace Sydney
Title_ The Matter of Nature Year_ 2005 Collection_ Art Gallery of NSW Size_1100mm x 1100mm x 400mm
Title_ Eden and the Apple of Sodom Year_ 2002 Exhibitied_ University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, Australia for the Adelaide Festival
Title_ Glasshouse Veil Year_ 2007 Size_ 1m x 6m Materials_ Duraclear, Oil on Acrylic Exhibitied_ Arc 1, Melbourne, Australia
title_ Pilgrim’s Window year_ 2007 medium_ duraclear, oil on acrylic size_ 100 x 100cm
Title_ Crimes Against the Landscape (Glance in Glance) Year_ 2007 Location_ Arc 1 Gallery, Melbourne
Title_ Natural History (Landscape and Residues Series) Year_ 2008 Location_ Arc 1 Gallery, Melbourne Materials_ Glass vials, botanical specimens, wood, steel, polished aluminium mirror Size_ Variable
Title_ Carbon Futures Year_ 2008 Materials_ glass, carbonised botanical specimens, 30 x 25cm, glass blown by Gabriella Bisetto
title_ Ghost date_ 2009 location_ Lake Macquarie Gallery materials_ seraphic-fired screenprinted glass, stainless steel, 5000mm x 1800mm x 50mm
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, […]