Friday 10 May 2024
10:00 am—11:00 am
Janet Laurence is a leading Sydney-based artist who exhibits nationally and internationally. Her practice examines our physical, cultural and conflicting relationship to the natural world. She creates immersive environments that navigate the interconnections between organic elements and systems of nature. Addressing the impacts of climate change she explores what it might mean to heal the natural environment, fusing this with a sense of communal loss and a search for connection with powerful life-forces.
Janet Laurence’s immersive, multisensory installation for PHOTO 2024 — Tears of dust reflects upon the fragility and power of the natural environment. Her intensely seductive and haunting work presents an evocative glimpse of our changing planet.
In this exhibition, wunderkammers (cabinets of curiosity) provide windows into our fragile ecosystem — of breathing forests, extreme weather events and dying glaciers — offering a sense of connection with, and mourning for, our vanishing natural world.
Join Janet Laurence with MAPh director Anouska Phizacklea in this online talk to learn about Tears of dust, key moments in the artist’s remarkable career and the forces that impel her to keep making and sharing her work.
This session will take place via Zoom. A recording of the session will be available to booked participants on request.
$10 connection fee
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