Lauren Lysaght
Lauren is one of New Zealand’s foremost social conscience artists and has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and internationally since the early 1980s. Lauren Lysaght is in the prime of her art career and is committed to pushing boundaries in her art at every opportunity.
Lauren Lysaght is a self-taught New Zealand artist who
deliberately works in a nontraditional style. A multi-disciplinary
artist, Lauren uses 'low-rent' materials that might be found at a
$2 shop to create seductive and provocative works that bring
attention to important issues and injustices such as disability,
poverty, and mental illness. Lauren's work is also playful and
exuberant as in the Life Coaching series of magnificent
and flamboyant hearses of sparkling black, these rococo chariots,
destined for triumphant arrivals, are a renegade reaction to
minimalist form.
Lauren is one of New Zealand's foremost social conscience
artists and has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and
internationally since the early 1980s. Lauren Lysaght is in the
prime of her art career and is committed to pushing boundaries in
her art at every opportunity.
Lauren was the Gold Medal Award Winner of the Art Addiction
Annual Exhibition in Venice, Italy and has been awarded a Queen
Elizabeth II Arts Council Grant and Creative New Zealand
funding. Her work is held in numerous private and public
collections including Te Papa Tongarewa and the Chartwell
Collection.
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