Jacq Laurenson
(b. 1968, Perth, Western Australia) lives and works between Brazil and Australia.
Jacq Laurenson has a practice which engages in interactions with the natural world, ancestral narratives and abstract symbols. Foraged nature elements, found objects, and everyday materials are assembled. While figurative details are reimagined into organic forms.
Her favourite way to work is on the floor, as this gives a sense that something is being born from the ground. Using materials such as paper, recycled cardboard, natural twine, wood, wire and raw canvas.
She grew up in a small coastal city, isolated by an expansive red desert and the Indian ocean. A world traveller, her passion for different cultures, languages and abstract symbology began in her youth. For decades she worked in creative roles, predominantly in graphic design and television.
Laurenson’s work resides at the intersection between drawing and painting, sculpture and photography.
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 | CASA COR, Rio de Janeiro | Curadoria: Laurentino Azevedo
2024 | Galeria Parque Gloria Maria, Parque das Ruínas, RJ | Curadoria: Silvana Marcelina
2024 | Paulo Branquinho Galeria, Lapa, Rio de Janeiro | Curadoria: Paulo Branquinho
2022 | Xow Rumi Galeria, Gloria, RJ | Curadoria: Fabia Schnoor (Parque Lage Escle de Artes Visuais)
EDUCATION
2024-2025 | The Practice of Sculpture, the Transcendental, and Singularities, C. Bevilacqua, Parque Lage EAV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2024-2025 | Life Model Drawing, Prof Cristiano Nogueira, Atelier Bandeira de Mello, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2023 | Byron School of Art, Contemporary art course, Australia
2021-2022 | Contemporary art courses, Parque Lage EAV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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