Lauren O'Connor
Born 1994, Bowral, Australia
Lives & Works – Sydney (Eora)
Through layered colour, impulsive mark-making and erasure, Lauren O'Connor brings the transient into view, invoking the complexities of memory and representation. Forms in nature are broken apart and reformed in her paintings giving new interpretations of landscapes. Based on memory and imagination, her landscapes lead to new worlds being created; they are familiar yet foreign, complicated yet simple. Her work constantly contradicts what the viewer's eye is used to seeing and understanding about painting and landscape itself, mirroring the Australian landscape, with its contradictions of familiar and strange.
Lauren O'Connor is a graduate of the National Art School in Sydney and was announced as a winner of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2023. She has been a finalist in various prizes including the Paddington Art Prize (2023, 2021), Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize (2023), Mosman Art Prize (2022) and was awarded the 2022 AACI Internship placement at Ernabella Arts Centre, APY Lands. Her work is featured in Amber Creswell Bell’s forthcoming book on Australian Abstraction.
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Lauren O'Connor
Two Moons 7 - 30 March 2024Lauren O’Connor’s practice reminds us that the natural world is in constant flux, re-affirmed in each painting to the point of mantra. Her works are disorderly stratums of decisive, colourful...Read more -
Arthouse Group Show
Summer – Part 1 9 - 27 January 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to begin 2024 with 'Summer' featuring a selection of new and exciting works from our stable of artists. This coming year features solo shows by newly–represented,...Read more -
Arthouse Group Show
Present Tense 15 June - 1 July 2023 -
Group Show
Paper 4 May - 10 June 2023'Paper & Clay' brings together the work of twenty-nine Australian artists traversing the timeless materiality of two enduring artforms. Unencumbered by dense conceptual wilderness, the works in this show posit...Read more
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Lauren O'ConnorPiscean, 2024acrylic on board150 x 120 cm, 153 x 124.5 cm (framed)$6,990
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Lauren O'ConnorFalls – Aliwaniwanyinya APY Lands SA, 2023acrylic on board122 x 90 cm, 123.5 x 92.5 cm (framed)$4,990
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Lauren O'ConnorGunguddy Love Letter, 2023acrylic and mixed media on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)$1,990
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Lauren O'ConnorMountains and Scribbly Gums, 2023acrylic and mixed media on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)$1,990
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Lauren O'ConnorTable Set for Three, 2023acrylic and mixed media on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)$1,990
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Lauren O'ConnorUntitled II, 2022acrylic on paper59.5 x 42 cm, 69 x 52 cm (framed)$950
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Lauren O'ConnorUntitled I, 2022acrylic on paper59.5 x 42 cm, 69 x 52 cm (framed)$950
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Lauren O'ConnorStudy of Waterfall, Barrengarry Mountain, 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper59.5 x 41.5 cm (unframed)$700
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Lauren O'ConnorUphill from the Studio, Shark Island Residency, 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper41.5 x 59.5 cm (unframed)Sold
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Lauren O'ConnorRibbon gum & dry shade, 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper41.5 x 29.5 cm (unframed)$600
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Lauren O'ConnorSpilt Turpentine , 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper41.5 x 29.5 cm (unframed)$600
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Lauren O'ConnorYour garden at the end of summer, Yuin Country, 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper29.5 x 41.5 cm (unframed)$600
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Lauren O'ConnorFlowering gums, 2024ink, acrylic & gouache on paper29.5 x 41.5 cm (unframed)$600
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Exhibition Calendar 2024
31 December 2024ARTHOUSE GALLERY ANNOUNCES A DYNAMIC AND EXCITING EXHIBITION CALENDAR FOR 2024 Arthouse Gallery is delighted to announce our dynamic exhibition program for 2024. This coming...Read more -
Arthouse Gallery artists part of Women for Change
Sibyl Centre, Womens College at the University of Sydney. 6 February 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to be participating in a major fundraising event for Women for Change. The inaugural IGNITE Art Show is a silent auction...Read more -
Lauren O'Connor announced as a winner of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
Brett Whiteley Studio 25 October 2023It is with great excitement that we announce that Lauren O’Connor is one of the winners of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. Judged by...Read more -
Multiple Arthouse Gallery artists announced as finalists in the Paddington Art Prize
Susan Baird, Jo Bertini, Jo Davenport, Lauren O'Connor and Robyn Sweaney 14 September 2023October 12-22, 2023 Cooee Art Leven 17 Thurlow Street Redfern NSW. We are delighted to announce that Susan Baird, Jo Bertini, Jo Davenport, Lauren O'Connor...Read more
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Lauren O'Connor announced as a finalist in the National Flow Watercolour Prize
Wollongong Art Gallery 2 September 2023Lauren O'Connor has been announced as a finalist in the FLOW Contemporary Watercolour Prize which was judged by Beatrice Gralton, Senior Curator of the Brett...Read more -
Several artists announced as finalists in the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize
Manly Art Gallery & Museum 24 June 2023Manly Art Gallery & Museum Curl Curl Creative Space and Mona Vale Creative Space Gallery 4 — 27 August 2023 We are delighted to announce...Read more -
Lauren O'Connor a feature artist in 'Australian Abstract' exhibition
Michael Reid Art Bar 25 May 2023Australian Abstract at Michael Reid Art Bar 26 May — 25 June In association with her feature in 'Australian Abstract' by Amber Creswell Bell, Lauren...Read more