JANET LAURENCE is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Bridging ethical and environmental concerns, Laurence’s art considers the inseparability of all living things and represents, in her words, “an ecological quest”. Reflecting on the mutability of nature, science, memory and loss, Laurence creates immersive environments offering us a deeply experiential and cultural relationship to the environment.

For more than 35 years, Janet Laurence’s practice has been driven by the fragility of the natural environment. Across photography, sculpture, video and installation, she explores the deep interconnection of life forms and ecologies to produce work driven by themes of alchemical transformation, history and perception that is distinctive, complex and beautiful.

Within the recognised threat to the life world she explores what it might mean to heal, albeit metaphorically, the natural environment, fusing this with a sense of communal loss and search for connection with powerful life forces.

Janet Laurence is well known for her public artworks and site-specific installations that extend from the museum and gallery into the urban and landscape domain. Recent significant projects and commissions include: a commission with The Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (2017); an installation for The Pleasure of Love, October Salon, Belgrade (2016); Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, for the Paris Climate Change Conference (2015) and the Paris International Contemporary Art Fair (2015), followed up by the installation Deep Breathing at the Australian Museum, Sydney (2016); Tarkine for a World in Need of Wilderness, Macquarie Bank Foyer, London (2011); In Your Verdant View, Hyde Park Building, Sydney (2010); Waterveil, CH2 Building for Melbourne City Council; Memory of Lived Spaces, Changi T3 Airport Terminal, Singapore; Elixir, permanent installation for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan (all 2006); The Australian War Memorial (in collaboration with TZG Architects), Hyde Park, London (2003); In the Shadow, Sydney 2000 Olympic Park, Homebush Bay (2000); Veil of trees, Sydney Sculpture Walk (with Jisuk Han); 49 Veils, award-winning windows for the Central Synagogue, Sydney (with Jisuk Han, 1999); The Edge of the Trees (with Fiona Foley), Museum of Sydney (1994); and The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Australian War Memorial, Canberra (with TZG Architects, 1993).

Despite a demanding schedule of public artworks and commissioned projects, Janet Laurence also exhibits widely in major art institutions and museums, including Australia, Japan, Germany, Hong Kong and the UK. Exhibitions include: The Entangled Garden of Plant Memory, Yu Hsiu Museum, Taiwan (2020); the major survey exhibition Janet Laurence: After Nature curated by Rachel Kent, MCA, Sydney (2019); Inside the Flower, IGA Berlin, Germany (2017); Force of Nature II, curated by James Putnam, The Art Pavilion, London (2017); the 13th Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador (2016); Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, Muséum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, (2015); After Eden, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney (2012) and Tarrawarra Museum of Art (2013); 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010); In The Balance: Art for a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2010); Clemenger Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2009); and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan (2003, 2006). She was also included in the 9th Biennale of Sydney (1992) and Australian Perspecta (1985, 1991, and 1997).

Janet Laurence lives and works in Sydney. A recipient of both a Rockefeller and Churchill Fellowship, she was a Trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW, on the VAB Board of the Australia Council, and is currently a visiting fellow of the 2016/2017 Hanse-WissenschaftKolleg (HWK) foundation fellowship.

Key collections include: NGA, Canberra; AGNSW, Sydney; NGV, Melbourne; MCA, Sydney; QAG, Brisbane; AGSA, Adelaide; Artbank Australia; Macquarie Bank Collection; Kunstwerk Summlung Klein, Germany; as well as numerous university, corporate and private collections nationally and internationally.

Artists with Regeneration Farmers, Earth Canvas, Australia.
The Treelines Track, Bundanon, Australia. GASP: Parliament, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
GASP: Parliament, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2023
Once Were Forests, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne

2020
Entangled Garden for Plant Memory, Yu-hsui Museum, Taiwan

2019
The Palm at the End of the Mind, The Johnston Collection, Melbourne
Janet Laurence: After Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2018
What Colour is the Sacred?, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne

2017
The Matter of The Masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Transplant: A forest for chlorophyll collapse, Momentum, Berlin
Inside the Flower, IGA Berlin
Lost Habitats, Nautilus Exhibition, Oldenburger, Germany
Phytophilia, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide

2016
The Pleasure of Love, October Salon, Belgrade
The 13th Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador Habitat, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW
Auftrag Landschaft, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany
Deep Breathing, Australian Musueum, Sydney
Troubled Water, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
H2O Water Bar, Paddington Water Reservoir, City of Sydney, NSW

2015
Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, Grande Galerie de l’Evolution at Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris
Antrhopocene, Fine Arts Society Contemporary, London, UK
Momentum, Kuntsquartier Bethanien, Berlin

2014
Plants Eye View, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, NSW
A Case Study, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia
Residue, Hugo Mitchell Gallery, Adelaide

2013
The Ferment, Fine Art Society Contemporary, London
Plants Eye View, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

2012
After Eden, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney
Avalanche, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Fabeled, BREENSPACE, Sydney
The Alchemical Garden of Desire, McClelland Gallery, VIC

2011
In Memory of Nature, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW

2010
What Can a Garden Be?, BREENSPACE, Sydney
Janet Laurence, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

2009
Things that Disappear, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide

2008
Crimes against the Landscape, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Landscapes and Residues, Jan Marton Art, Brisbane
Reflections on a Green World, Dusseldorf Gallery, Perth

2007
Greenhouse, bildkultur galerie, Stüttgart, Germany
Botanical Residues/Ischaemic Land, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2006
Janet Laurence, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Birdsong, Object Gallery, Sydney

2005
Janet Laurence: A Survey Exhibition, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

2004
Verdant works, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne

2002
Ferment, Faculty of Art & Design Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
Glasshouse, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney

2001
Veiling Space: Incarnations, Uniting Church, Paddington, Sydney

2000
Muses, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne

1998
Unfold, Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan

1997
Unfold, Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1996
States of Matter, Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
Less Stable Elements, University Gallery, Newcastle

1995
pH series, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

1994
Alchemical Works, Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan
Lunami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1993
The Measure of Light, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

1992
Janet Laurence, Claybrooke Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1991
Rare, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1989
Blindspot, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney
Pier and Ocean, City Gallery, Melbourne

1988
From the Shadow, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra

1987
The Blind Spot on an Old Dream of Symmetry, Milburn + Arte, Brisbane
Meiosis, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne

1986
Spells of Origin, Wollongong Regional Gallery, Wollongong, NSW

1985
Janet Laurence, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Life is Probably Round, Artspace, Sydney
Blindspot, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney

1984
Ice Memory, Avago Gallery, Sydney

1983
Toiana, Adelaide Festival of Arts Gallery, Adelaide
The Madonna in the Stone Has a Memory, University Art Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Memories in the Stone, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

1982
Janet Laurence, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Recollections, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Qld

1981
Notes from the Shore, I.C.A. Central Street, Sydney

2022
The Edge: Of The Sphere, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Syndey Contemporary, ARC ONE Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Antartic Futures, University of Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Eucalyptusdom, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Watershed: 50 Artists, 50 Years, Betts Gallery, Tasmania
Fragile Earth: Extinction, Gippsland Art Museum, Victoria
Above the Canopy, Townhall Gallery Boondara, Victoria
Museum of Waters, Echigo-Tsumarti Art Trienniale, Japan
Earth Canvas, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
National Photography Prize 2022, Murry Art Museum Albury, NSW
Image Reverse, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Destination Sydney: The Natural World, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2021
Terra Australis Revisited, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
Struck, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Know My Name, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art from Elsewhere, Kulturforum Ansbach, Germany
The McClelland Collection: 50 Years, McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery, VIC
Requiem, Sydney Festival at Paddington Reservoir, Sydney
TREE of LIFE: a testament to endurance, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Tree Story, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Earth Canvas, touring exhibition Australia-wide

2020
Minutiae, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Secret Garden, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Critical Mass: The Art of Planetary Health, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba Courants Verts, Fondation EDF
ParisTerra Australis - A Survey of Contemporary Art, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna

2019
Arboreal Narratives, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
Nach der Natur, Koening Museum, Bonn, Germany
Teatro Della Terra Alienata ‘Reimagining the Fate of the Great Barrier Reef’, Palazzo Dell’arte, Milan, Italy
Continuous Regeneration, Columbia Circle, Shanghai, China
Conresponse, Beijing, China

2018
All We Can’t See: Illustrating The Nauru Files, The Yellow House Gallery, Sydney

2017
Framing Nature, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
Landscape of Loss, UN Conference on Climate Change, Berlin Transplant, Momentum, Berlin, Germany
Moving Plants, Kunsthalle Rønnebæksholm , Copenhagen, Denmark
Sydney Contemporary, ARC ONE Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
Seeing Science, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, NSW
Force of Nature, Ikono TV, Berlin
Fragil II, KWGallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney
Lost Habitats, Nautilus Exhibition, Oldenburger, Germany
Warning Shot, Topographie De l’art, ParisForce of Nature II, Art Pavilion in Mile End, London

2016/17
Project Landscape, ZKR - Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
Troubled Waters, UNSW Galleries; Syndey and Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA

2016
A Medicinal Maze, Novartis Campus: Sculpture and Medicinal Garden, Sydney, NSW
The 13th Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador Antrhopocene, Fine Arts Society Contemporary, London, UK The Pleasure of Love, October Salon, BelgradeLove Actually, Momentum, Berlin
AUFTRAG LANDSCHAFT, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, GermanyOceans, Musée de la Chasse et la Nature, Paris, France

2015
Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, Musée National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
ASO (Art Speaks Out), ArtCop21, iconoTV Till It’s Gone, Istanbull Modern, Turkey
Climarte Festival, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
The Significant Other, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Art15, Olympia, London, UKMind Shadows, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
MOMENTUM Collection, Loop, BarcelonaFour/Seven/Eleven, Dominik Mersh Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2014
What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, FAS Contemporary, London
The Skullbone Experiment: A Paradigm of Art and Nature, Queen Victoria Museum, UNSW University Galleries Dominik Mersch Gallery @ Galerie Patrick Ebensperger

2013
SCANZ: 3rd Nature, New Plymouth, New Zealand Australia: Contemporary Voices, FAS Contemporary, LondonIntra-action, MOP Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Collective Identity(ies): This is That Time, Lake Macquarie Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW
Natural Selection, FAS Contemporary, LondonWonderworks, Cat Street Art Gallery, Hong Kong1/2 Scene, Australia China Art Foundation, Melbourne, VIC

2012
Negotiating This World, NGV, MelbourneLife in Your Hands: Art from Solastalgia, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW
Drawing Out, University of Arts, London, UKResistance, Fine Art Society, London, UK

2011
Found/Lost, China Arts Projects, Osage Gallery, Beijing, China
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Artist Project (Resuscitation: Garden for anAiling Planet), Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
The Pulse, Herman Teirlinckhuis, Gemeentelijk Museum en Galerie Beersel,Beersel, Belgium
Naturstrücke, Haus Hasenbergsteige, Stüttgart, Germany
WattleAustralian Contemporary Art: The Space, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Nature Interupted: Contemporary Australian Sculpture, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Queensland

2010
A Generosity of Spirit: Recent Australian Women’s Art from the QUT Art Collection, Samstag Museum, SA (QUT Art Museum touring exhibition)
Outside In, McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park, Langwarrin,
Vic17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance – Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
In The Balance; Art for a Changing World, MCA, Sydney

2009
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, NGV Melbourne Darwin’s Bastards, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney
The Museum Effect, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW A Natural World, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
200850X50, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
HEAT, RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne
Handle With Care: 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Parallel Universe,Artificial Land, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Abundant Australia: 11th Venice Architecture Biennale, Australian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Recovering Lives, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

2007
Systems of Nature, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of W.A.

2006
We are Australians Too, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney A New Focus on Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
New Acquisitions 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2005
After Nature, Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, New South Wales

2004
Site: [unseen], Sherman Galleries at Depot Gallery, Sydney Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan, permanent installation (Elixir)

2002
Points of View: Works from the University of Technology Sydney Collection, UTS Gallery, Sydney
Eden and the Apple of Sodom, Adelaide Festival, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide

2001
The Art of Transformation, Metis 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Intersections of Art and Science, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney

2000
Kabbala, Jewish Museum of Melbourne, Melbourne

1999
Home and Away, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ Pets, Preys and Predators, Mosman Art Gallery and Cultural Centre, Sydney (touring to NSW regional galleries)
Cinderella’s Gems: Art and the Intellectual Missile (touring to Qld, NSW and Vic)

1998
The Infinite Space: Woman, Minimalism and the Sculptural Object, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

1997
Global Art, Carpediem Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Australian Perspecta 1997: Between Art and Nature, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney
Innenseite, in conjunction with Documenta X, Kassel, Germany

1996
Spirit and Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Systems End, OXY Gallery, Osaka, Japan; Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan; Dong Ah Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Shelfworks, Annandale Galleries, Sydney

1994
Going Public, Annandale Galleries, Sydney100 Years, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, with Annandale Galleries, Sydney
From the Observatory, Wollongong Regional Gallery, NSW, touring to Gold Coast and New South Wales regional galleries

1993
Inaugural Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Works from the Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection, Westpac Arts Centre, Mel bourne
Poetics of Immanence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, touring South Australian regional galleries
The Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney, Bond Stores, Sydney

1992
In Black and White, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney
Synthesis, Art + Architecture Collaboration, Bond Stores, Sydney
Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne Above the Lake, Beneath the Sky, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Vic

1991
Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism in Art, The Wharf, Sydney
Steam, Artists’ Projects for Australian Perspecta 1991, The Coach House, The Rocks, Sydney
Primitive concepts: The four elements, Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, NSW, touring to Maitland and Mussellbrook regional galleries, NSW

1990
Tokyo Connection, Heineken Village Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Abstraction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney “
Osmosis, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney

1989
Eastern States/Western States, Beach Gallery, Perth
1988
200 Years of Australian Drawing, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Intimate Drawing, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
The Great Australian Exhibition, Bicentennial Travelling Exhibition, NSW

1987
Tutti Frutti, Milan Art Fair, ItalyThe Art of Collage, Holdsworth Contemporary Gallery, Sydney
Nature and Technology, Sanctuary Cove, QLD
Abstract, King Street Gallery Newtown, Sydney

1986
Vessels of Meaning, Scholarie Arts Council Gallery, New York, US
Australijana – Contemporary Australian Painting, National Gallery of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1985
A Contemporary Australian Art, Warwick Arts Trust, London, UK Isolaustralia, Fondazine Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Australian Perspecta 1985, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1984
Surface and Image, Crafts Council Gallery, Sydney; Penrith Regional Gallery & the Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, NSW

1983
A.U.S.T.R.A.L.I.A., ZONA, Florence, Italy

1982
ZONA Australia, Florence, Italy

1981
Students Gallery (now Mori Gallery), Sydney

2022
Cliff, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
The Breath in Glass, Foveaux Street, Sydney with Candelapas Associates Architects
Pollination, Poly Building, Sydney, with UAP

2017
The Space Between: A Garden for Phoenix, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia

2016
A Medicinal Maze, Novartis Campus: Sculpture and Medicinal Garden, Sydney, NSW
H20 Water Bar, Paddington Water Reservoir, City of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Habitat, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW

2015
GASP: Parliament, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

2014
The Trees Line Track, Bundanon, NSW

2012
The Healing Wild, LaTrobe University, Health Sciences Building, Bendigo, VIC

2011
Tarkine (For a World in Need of Wildness), Macquarie Bank, London, UK

2010
In Your Verdant View, The Hyde, Sydney”
Ghost, Lake Macquarie Gallery, NSW

2008
The Sound of Green, Department of Forestry, Canberra, ACT

2007
The Memory of Lived Spaces, Changi T3 Airport Terminal, Singapore

2006
Waterveil, CH2 Building for Melbourne City Council, Melbourne

2004
Verdant Veil, Changi Airport, Singapore

2003
The Breath We Share, Sidney Myer Commemorative Sculpture, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Australian War Memorial, Hyde Park, London, UK, Collaboration with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
Elixir, Permanent installation for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan

2002
Translucidus, Qantas Lounge, Sydney International Airport, Sydney, NSW

2001
Ciphers: Stations of the Cross, Australian Catholic University Chapel, Melbourne, VIC, Collaboration with Julie Rrap

2000
Stilled Lives, Collection showcases, permanent display, Melbourne Museum
In the Shadow, Olympic Park, Homebush Bay, Sydney

1999
Picture the Dark Face of the River, Department of Environment, Canberra, ACT
Veil of Trees, Sydney Sculpture Walk, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney, NSW, Collaboration with Jisuk Han

1998
49 Veils, Windows for the Central Synagogue, Bondi, Sydney, NSW, Collaboration with Jisuk Han

1995
Chronicle I-IV, Herald and Weekly Times Building, Southbank, Melbourne
Edge of the Trees,, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Sculptural installation in collaboration with Fiona Foley

1993
Tomb of the Unknown Solider, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, In collaboration with Tonkin Zulaikha Architects

2020
2020 Australia Antarctic Arts Fellowship

2016-17
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Residency (HWK), Delmenhorst, Germany.
Artists in residence - Australian Museum, Sydney

2016
GASP: Parliament, Tasmania

2009
New Work Grant - Established, Australia Counil

2008-11
Visiting Fellow COFA University of NSW

2006
Churchill Fellowship

2003
Visual Arts/Crafts Board New Work Grant

2002
Visiting Fellow, Queensland College of Art, Queensland University
Artist-in-residence, Monash University, Faculty of Art and Design

2000
McGeorge Fellowship, The University of Melbourne

1997
Rockefeller Foundation (residency), Bellagio, Italy

1996–98
Australia Council two-year Fellowship

1996
Newcastle University Artist-in-residence

1992
Visual Arts/Craft Board Fellowship Grant

1989
Artist Development Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board

1988
Studio Grant, Tokyo, Japan
Canberra School of Art (residency), ACT

1987
Canberra School of Art (residency), ACT
Visual Arts Board Project Grant
Visual Arts Board Travel Grant, Paretaio, Italy
Bennington College (residency), Vermont, US

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Artbank, Australia
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Auckland City Art Gallery
Chartwell Collection, Auckland, NZ
Commonwealth Law Court, Brisbane
Griffith University Collection, Brisbane
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW
Macquarie Bank Collection, Melbourne
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum Kunstwerk, Eberdingen, Germany
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Moree Plains Gallery, NSW
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Seibu Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Supreme Court of Queensland, Brisbane
University of New England, Northern Rivers, NSW
University of New South Wales, Sydney
University of Newcastle, NSW
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Campus, Qld University of Technology, Sydney
University of Western Australia, Perth
World Bank Collection, Washington, US
Regional and university gallery collections
Private and corporate collections worldwide

2022
Eucalyptusdom, edited by Sally Rose, Powergouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, exhibition catalogue

2021
Janie Burke, My Forests: Travel with Trees, University of Melbourne Press, Melbourne

2017
Moving Plants, Ronnebaeksholm, Naestved, Denmark pp 91-101

Magicians of the Earth, LES MAGICIENNES DE LA TERRE : L’art et la Nature au Féminin, curated by Virginie Luc

Our Ocean Guide, Map Office, Lightbox, Italy, pp 348-359
Loxley, A., French,B., Civic Actions: Artists Practices Beyond the Museum, Museum of Contemporay Art Australia, p. 70-75.

Creed, Barbara, Stray:Human-Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene, Power Publications, Australia

2016
Dickel, Hans.,. Natur in der zeitgenossischen Kunst,, exhibition catalogue, pp.175-178.

Elliot, David, The Pleasure of Love, October Salon, Belgrade, exhibition catalogue.

2015
Gosset, L., Artists 4 Paris Climate 2015, Christie’s France SNC, Paris, France, pp18-20.

Bond, Anthony. The idea of art. Sydney: New South Publishing, University of NSW Press

Gibson, Pruedence., 2015, Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants, New South Publishing, University of NSW Press Ltd

Christie’s France, Artists 4 Paris Climate 2015, pp18-20

Barrett, J. & Millner, J., Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum, University of Sydney, Australia

Hancock, D. & Parkes, B. Glass: Art & Architecture, Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia

2014
Caddey, K & Ryan, M. A Case Study: Janet Laurence, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery Catalogue 11 April 2014- 20 July 2014

2013
Janet Laurence: The Ferment, exhibition catalogue, FAS Contemporary Press, London. 2012 Janet Laurence: After Eden, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney

Helmrich, M., ‘Janet Laurence: Silent witness’, in NEWv2: Selected Recent Acquisitions, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

McKenzie, J., Contemporary Australian Drawing, Meta senta and Macmillan Australia, Melbourne

2011
Devery, J., ‘Janet Laurence’, in In Memory of Nature, exhibition catalogue, Glasshouse Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW

2010
Blanc, N. & Ramos, J., Ecoplasties: Art et Environnement, Manuella Éditions, Paris.

Kent, R., ‘Janet Laurence’, in In the Balance: Art for a Changing World, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Periz, I., ‘What makes a garden’, in What Can a Garden Be?, exhibition catalogue, BREENSPACE, Sydney

2008
Heathcote, C., McCaughey, P. & Thomas, S., Encounters with Australian Modern Art, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne

Lynn, V., ‘Janet Laurence: the life-world’, in F. Fenner (ed.), Handle with Care: 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Oates, A., ‘Janet Laurence: Recovering lives – resuscitating landscape’, in N. Sever & C. Turner (eds), Recovering Lives,exhibition catalogue, Australian National University, Canberra

2006
Bond, A., ‘Janet Laurence’, in Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Bruce, C., ‘Silent spring: The visual art of Janet Laurence’, Greenhouse, exhibition catalogue, Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane

2005
Couacaud, S., ‘Janet Laurence: the glasshouse effect’, in Janet Laurence, exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

Kent, R., ‘Changing topographies: the environmental art of Janet Laurence’ and M. Tawa, ‘Verdant green’, in Janet Laurence: A Survey Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

Rendell, J., Art to Architecture: A Place Between, IB Tauris, London, UK and New York.

2003
Meskimmon, M., Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Routledge, London, UK and New York, US

2002
Alexander, G., ‘Janet Laurence and the unquiet museum’, in

Eden & the Apple of Sodom, exhibition catalogue, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide

Bond, A., ‘Eclecticism: through the distorting lens of distance’, in Points of View: University of Technology Sydney Art

Collection, exhibition catalogue, UTS, Sydney Murray Cree, L., Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids, Craftsman House, Sydney

Parr, A., ‘Ferment: Janet Laurence’, in Ferment, exhibition catalogue, Faculty of Art & Design Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne

2001
Geczy, A. & Genocchio, B. (eds), What is Installation? An Anthology of Writings on Australian Installation Art, Power Publications, Sydney

Hart, D., ‘The art of transformation’, in Metis 2001: Wasted – Exhibitions of Science and Art, National Science Week, May 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Laurence J. & Pattenden, R., Veiling Space, exhibition catalogue, Eastside Arts, Sydney, 2001

2000
Dysart, D. (ed.), Edge of the Trees: A Sculptural Installation by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Sydney

Kent, R., ‘Janet Laurence: transpiration’, in Transpiration, exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

1998
Tawa, M., 49 Veils: Windows in the New Central Synagogue, Central Synagogue, Waste Publishing, Sydney

1997
Best, S., ‘Unfolding’, in Unfold, exhibition catalogue, Level 2, AGNSW Contemporary Projects, Sydney

Hart, D., ‘Temple of earth memories’, in Australian Perspecta 1997: Between Art and

Nature, exhibition catalogue, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney

1995
Johnson, A., The Unconscious and the Molecular, exhibition catalogue, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

1994
Maloon, T., Janet Laurence: Periodic Table Works, Potstill Press, Sydney

1993
Seaman, B., ‘Lines of thought’, in Janet Laurence: The Measure of Light, exhibition catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

1992
Kirby, S., Sightlines: Women Art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney

1991
Bond, A., ‘Janet Laurence’, in Janet Laurence, exhibition catalogue, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo

Carcenac, B., Steam: Artists’ Projects for Australian Perspecta 1991, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Laurence, J., ‘Artist’s statement’, Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism in Art, The Wharf, Sydney

1990
Lynn, V., ‘Abstraction’, Abstraction, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1989
Brauer, F., ‘The language of installation: Janet Laurence’, in Blindspot, exhibition catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney

1988
Emmett, P., Janet Laurence, Craftsman House, Sydney

Haynes, P., ‘From the shadow’, in From the Shadow, exhibition catalogue, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra

1987
Maloon, T., ‘Meiosis’, in Meiosis, exhibition catalogue, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne 1985 Blackall, J., ‘The essential remains’, in Toiana, Adelaide Festival of Arts Gallery, Adelaide

Macdonald, J., ‘Life is probably round’, in Life is Probably Round, exhibition catalogue, Artspace, Sydney

Prunster, U., ‘Souvenirs from the maidens of Thrace’, in Perspecta Survey of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2021
Meikus, Tiarney, ‘Interview - Janet Laurence’, Art Guide Australia, March/April 2021

2019
Albet, Jane, ‘Janet Laurence - After Nature’, Broadsheet, March 2019

Arozqueta, Claudia, ‘Janet Laurence’s After Nature’, Art Agenda, 21 March 2019 Barrett, Rosance, ‘Force of Nature’, The Australian, 13 April 2019

Blake, Elissa, ‘How Plants and Trees Talk to Eachother and Why We Should Care’, University of Sydney, 4 March, 2019

Brown, Husdon, ‘Janet Laurence - After Nature’, Concrete Playground, 5 March 2019

Clement, Tracey, ‘Janet Laurence - After Nature,’ Art Guide Australia, 15 March 2019

Convery, Stephanie, ‘ I Want you to Linger: How Janet Laurence’s Art Compels you to Save the Earth,’ The Guardian, 20 April 2019

Cosic, Miriam, ‘Janet Laurence: After Nature at the MCA’, The Monthly, 17 April 2019

Cosic, Miriam, ‘Janet Laurence’s Second Nature,’ The Weekend Australian, 16 Feburary 2019

Fairley, Gina, When Art is a Question of Life and Death,’ ArtsHub, 12 April 2019

Galvin, Nick, ‘Janet Laurence Wants to Heal our Sick Planet,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 Feburary 2019

Gibson, Prudence, ‘Janet Laurence: After Nature sounds an Exquisite Warning Bell for Extinction’, The Conversation, 11 March 2019

Gibson, Prue, ‘Janet Laurence: After Nature’, Running Dog, 29 March 2019

Kale, Neha, ‘Artist Janet Laurence and the Cost of Living’, The Saturday Paperm 26 April 2019

Kembrey, Melanie, ‘Lunch with Artist Janet Laurence,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 March 2019

Linn, Kathleen, ‘After Nature: Interview with Janet Laurence,’ Art Asia Pacific, 3 April 2019

Maunder, Tess, ‘Janet Laurence: After Nature,’ Art Almanac, 28 March 2019 McDonald, John, ‘Janet Laurance an Artist of the Anthropocene Age,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 2019

Reid, Georgia, ‘After Naure: An Exhibition by Janet Laurence,’ The Planthunter, 26 March 2019

Yeong, Sassall, ‘Inside the artist’s studio with Janet Laurence,’ Vogue Living, 16 May 2019

Walsh, Ellie, ‘Janet Laurence’, Artist Profile, 2019

Wong, Emily, ‘Beauty and Fragility - Janet Laurence’, Landscape Australia, 19 June, 2019

2018
Yip, Andrew, ‘Janet Laurence’s Cabinet of Curiosities’, Look, Art Gallery Society of NSW, Jan–Feb 2018

2017
‘Artist Profile, Janet Laurence’, Kerb Journal, issue 23 October, 2017

C. Bowker, Geoffrey, ‘This Moment is Different: Janet Laurence and the Anthropocene,’ Moving Plants, Ronnebaeksholm, Naestved, Denmark pp 91-101 Champtaloup, Julia, Janet Laurence: Inside the Flower, The Plant Hunter, august 14, 2017

2016
Zapata, Cristobal, From South to South: Australian art at the XIII Bienal de Cuenca, October, 2016

2016 Gibson, Prue., ‘Here’s looking at: Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef’, theconverstaion.com, (online) Aug 2016

Hay, Ashley. ‘Communicating with nature: The botanical art of Janet Laurence’, The Australian, January 2, 2016

Jottkandt, Sigi. ‘Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants’, Australian Humanities Review, Issue59, Apr/May 2016

2015
Rose, Deborah, Bird., ‘Lively Water’, Love at the Edge of Extinction, online, Mar 2016 2015 Gordon, Helen. ‘Olafur Eliasson’s rallying cry’, Intelligent Life Magazine, Dec 2015

Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef), ARTAND Australia, Paris, (online), Dec. Jones, Julia. A growing medium, Art Monthly Australia, Issue 284, October 2015, pp. 38-49

Taylor, Andrew., Laurence brings fragility of Great Barrier Reef to Paris climate talks, September 15, 2015, SMH Digital Edition.

Challender, Madeleine. ‘Deeper Breathing in Paris’, Ocean Geographic, Edition 35, 2015, 48-51

2014
Rose, D.B., ‘Blood and Chlorophyll’, Deborah Bird Rose: Life at the Edge of Extinction

[Online], 14 March 2014, Accessed at: http://deborahbirdrose.com/2014/03/14/blood- and-chlorophyll-janet-laurence/

Llull, P., ‘Between Evidence and Imagination,’ Sculpture, March 2014 Vol.33 No.2, p46

2013
Mandryk, C., ‘Plants Eye View, Janet Laurence,’ Art Asia Pacifice, online, September Tutton, S., ‘Through the Filter of the Present: Tarrawarra Museum of Art Victoria Lynn’, Artand, Australia, Issue 51.2, p203

Frost, A., ‘Animate/Inanimate: TarraWarra Museum of Art – review’, The Guardian, UK, blog, Jul 16, 2013 Webb, P., ‘The Best Of Art’, The Age Melbourne, Arts Column, June Graham, J. ‘Museum Takes A Global View of Art, Mountain Views Mail, Tuesday 2nd July, 2013, p. 2

Blackhouse, M., ‘Animate/Inanimate’, Art Guide Australia, July/August, 2013, Issue 84. Sekar, S., ‘Environmental art of loss and wonder’, New Scientist (online), April, 2013 Machen, M., ‘Glover move of relaxing criteria under fire, The Examiner (online), March 13th, p.8

Martin, C., ‘Glover Prize’s First Female Artist’, The Examiner (online), March 12th, p.8 Forrest, N., ‘Australian Artist on first major UK show’, ARTINFO (online), April, 2013 Djurichkovic, A., ‘Janet Laurence Wins 2013 Glover Prize, ART COLLECTOR (online), March 13, 2013

2012
Forrest, N., ‘Australian Artist Win 2013 Glover Prize’, ARTINFO (online), March, 2013 2012 Hatley, Dr. J., ‘Extinction for Sale’, GeoAesthetics (blog), September 20, 2012

Hatley, Dr. J., ‘Janet Laurenc’es Memory of Nature’, GeoAesthetics (blog), September 5, 2012

Morgan, J., ‘Animal instincts challenge mortality of human’, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 2012

2011
Periz, I., ‘Waiting: A Medicinal Garden for Ailing Plants’, Antennae, issue 18, Autumn Serisier, G., ‘Photosynythesis, artist profile: Janet Laurence’, Art Market Report, issue 39

2010
Fenner, F., ‘A hospital for plants: the healing art of Janet Laurence’, Art & Australia,vol. 48, no. 1

Fenner, F., ‘Biennial: so far away, and yet so near’, Art in America, September Gardiner, S., ‘Ministering to a fragile planet’, Artnews, Spring

McGillick, P., ‘The art of reflection’, Habitus, issue 6, January–March McKenzie, J., ‘A letter from Sydney’, Studio International Magazine, July

2009
Periz, I., ‘Collector’s dossier: Janet Laurence’, Art Collector, September

2008
Murray Cree, L., ‘Poetry and alchemy’, Art World, vol. 4

2006
Geczy, A., ‘Janet Laurence: a survey exhibition at the Drill Hall’, Eyeline, March

Laurence, J., ‘Art and ecology’, in Chris Healy & Stephen Muecke (eds), Cultural Studies Review, vol. 12

2005
Geissler, M., ‘Principles of uncertainty’, Craft Arts International, no. 65

Taylor, J., ‘Artist + Environment: Janet Laurence and the healing of place’, Art and Architecture, S-Lab Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design, Images Publishing Group, Mulgrave, Vic

2004
Lombardo, F., ‘Verdant works’, Artichoke, vol. 2, no. 8

Martin, C., ‘Under English skies: The Australian War Memorial in London’, Art and Australia, vol. 42, no. 1, spring

2003
Laurence, J., ‘Space and memory: a meditation on memorials and monuments’, Architecture Australia, vol. 92, no. 5, September–October

Walker, P., ‘Australian War Memorial’, Architecture Australia, vol. 92, no. 5, September–October

BT Bijitsu Techo (magazine), September

2002
Mendelssohn, J., ‘Janet Laurence at Sherman Galleries’, tema celeste, May–June Parr, A., ‘Veiling space’, Architectural Review, autumn

2001
Fenner, F., ‘Report from Sydney II: ground work’, Art in America, no. 5, May

2000
McGillick, P., ‘Material matters: the art of Janet Laurence’, Monument, December 1999 – January 2000

McGowan, T., ‘Public art and the Sydney Olympics’, Sculpture (US), July–August 2000 Best, S., ‘Immersion and distraction: the environmental works of Janet Laurence’, Art and Australia, vol. 38, no. 1, spring

Martin, C., Review of Ian Potter Museum exhibition, The Lancet (UK)

1999
McGowan, T., ‘3 Australian women exploring the landscape’, Sculpture (US), September

1998
Ward, P., ‘A touch of glass’, Design and Architecture, October

1997
Genocchio, B., ‘Postcards from the edge’, Third Text, July

McGillick, P., ‘Unfold’, Monument, 21 November

Ostwold, M., ‘(Re)-membering Janet Laurence’s work’, Transition (University of Newcastle)

Selenitch, A., ‘Memory matter’, Ume Magazine, April

1996
Takami, A., ‘Compounding Australian identity’, Bijutu-Techo, August

1995
Nimmo, A., ‘Art in the public realm: Edge of the Trees’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 85, November

1994
Kent, P., ‘Opening the tomb: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’, Photofile, November

Maloon, T., ‘The alchemy of Janet Laurence’, Art and Australia, vol. 31, no. 4, winter 1990 BT Bijitsu Techo (magazine), vol. 42, no. 627, August

1989
Allen, C., ‘Art and nature’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 20, May

Haynes, P., ‘Impressions: Janet Laurence’, Art and Australia, vol. 26, no. 4, winter

Milson, V., ‘Artists in the forest’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 22, July

1987
Brauer, F., ‘From the one into the other’, Art Monthly Australia, no. 33, July

2017
Museum Fur naturkunde Berlin, ‘ART/NATURE Conference Berlin: “The Alchemical Afterlife” , Sep 22, 2017

Art Gallery of NSW, Artist Janet Laurence on ‘The matter of the masters’, Dec 19, 2017

Australian Tapestry Workshop, ‘The Making of Listen, to the Sound of Plants’, March 22, 2017

2016
Arts Hub, ‘Artist Janet Laurence on chaos and climate change’, Aug 22, 2016

Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, Musée National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 2016

Sydney Water TV, City of Sydney, H20 Water Bar – interview with City of Sydney., Febuary 28, 2016

City of Sydney, Art & About: Janet Laurence with Sydney Water Education Team, Feb 15, 2016

2015
Ikono TV, ‘Janet Laurence for Art Speaks Out’, Dec 5, 2015

Lisa Roberts, ‘Janet Laurence makes art for Paris Climate Change’, sept 6, 2015

2013
Cat Street Gallery, ‘Janet Laurence’, Oct 3, 2013

2012
Object Magazine, ‘Janet Laurence’, Issue 63, interviewed by Patrick Abboud, Oct 2012

2011
ABC TV, ‘Kaldor Family Collection’, Art Nation, interviewed by Andrew Frost, 3 June 2011

2010
Biennale of Sydney, ‘Janet Laurence’, 18 June, 2010

Art Gallery of NSW, ‘Janet Laurence’, Art after hours, Jun 29, 2010

ABC TV, ‘Art for a Changing World’, Art Nation, interviewed by Fenella Kernebone, 3 September 2010

2005
‘The Life World’, a film by Richard Mordaunt, Coolamon Films, 2005

ABC TV, ‘In Conversation: Janet Laurence’, Sunday Afternoon, interviewed by Andrew Mackenzie, 20 June 2004

2000
ABC TV, ‘Janet Laurence: Muses – The Artist in the Museum, The Ian Potter Museum of Art’, The Arts Show, 13 August 2000

ABC TV, ‘Janet Laurence’, In Conversation, interviewed by Andrea Stretton, 10 August 2000

1994
Faces of the Museum (film), Museum of Sydney, April 1994

1993
ABC TV, ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’, ABC Review, November 1993

SBS TV, ‘Synthesis: Artist/Architect Collaboration’, SBS Eat Carpet, August 1993