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JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE

b. 1947, Australia
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Janet Laurence’s artistic dialogue with the environment is shaped within an ethical and judicial framework – words like ‘crimes’ and ‘forensic’ are used by Laurence in her titles to highlight the human fingerprint on the landscape and the contamination and destruction visible in the natural world. Plant matter, whether found in Janet Laurence’s photographic manifestations or in lab-like installations, are specimens for nurture and preservation, but simultaneously samplings for toxicology testing and evidence.

Favoured materials such as aluminium, mirror and glass on which Janet Laurence transfers her photographic hallucinatory imagery create reflections and shadows, playing with the effects of light and inadvertently human perception. Laurence’s layering and mix of shiny, opaque and translucent surfaces conjures up a moody, haunting sensation; the viewer is at once taken into the world of fern and forest, but Laurence simultaneously anchors the viewer through the reflections of the built space in which he stands in as surfaces rebound.

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