Janet LaurenceCulture Section, House News27th Sep 2013
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Janet LaurenceArt World01st Sep 2008
Life-support systems for burnt and ravaged landscapes and, by implication, for an imperilled planet, have been a particular focus of Janet Laurence’s work since 2004. Taking her portable laboratory of beakers, flasks, tubes, elixirs and veils to threatened or destroyed landscapes in Australia and Central America, she creates remedial installations in poetic homage to lost and endangered species. While regeneration of Tasmania’s Styx forest is impossible – clear-felling and the imposition of an exotic pine monoculture having reduced the old-growth forest floor to ground zero – Laurence brings a unique vision to environmental catastrophe and its imagined reversal. She photographs her interventions from many angles, recently introducing a glass sphere that becomes, at times, a lens through which to capture the damaged or carbonised landscape.
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Janet LaurenceArt Interview
Renowned as one of Australia's leading site-specific artists, Janet Laurence's most recent practice has involved the creation of environments that act as sanctuaries for the contemplation and regeneration of natural environments and plant life. During the recent 17th Biennale of Sydney (BoS), where the artist's latest work graced the Royal Botanic Gardens, Laurence spoke with Felicity Fenner about the artistic idea of the greenhouse, and the fragility and fecundity of plants.
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