Janet Laurence
Subtitle: after nature
By: editor Rachel Kent
Contributors: Kent, Rachel, editor, author; Maloon, Terence, author; Putnam, James, author; Bowker, Geoffrey C., author; McCalman, Iain, author; Miall, Nina, author; Orrell, Claire, book designer; Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Published: 2019
Place of publication: The Rocks, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781925806014
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: After nature
Description: For over 30 years Janet Laurence has explored the interconnection of all living things - animal, plant, mineral - through her multi-disciplinary practice. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video, she has employed diverse materials to explore the natural world in all its beauty and complexity, as well as the environmental challenges it faces today: the epoch of the Anthropocene. Laurence's MCA Australia survey brings together key works and themes across the artist's practice over a thirty-year period. From her alchemical works of the early 1990s utilising metal plates, minerals and organic substances, and lightboxes, to her installations of the 2000s and beyond incorporating plant and animal specimens within transparent vitrines and 'wunderkammer' environments, Laurence's works reflect on the fragility natural world, its plight and potential restoration.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Janet Laurence After Nature', Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 1 March-10 June 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.