Janet Laurence: The Ferment

The first major UK solo show for one of Australia’s most respected living
artists, Janet Laurence.

For over forty years Laurence has been examining the complex relationships between natural and man-made environments, making nature at once her subject and her object.

The Ferment presents a selection of work from recent years. Laurence’s early works used an alchemical language of matter to evoke spaces
and fields of memory. This basic language has never left the work but it has found new departures and expressions in the other series in the exhibition, including the Glasshouse works which, present the grand structures now
ghosted out as memory spaces for the wonderment of plants.