Very exciting news for JANET LAURENCE, who has been awarded the 2020 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship!
Janet will spend time at Australia’s Casey research station to develop an immersive installation, tapping into both the minutiae and the expanse of the extreme environment. “I am overwhelmed with excitement to have been offered the opportunity to travel to Antarctica and make art in response to its beauty, fragility and otherworldly power,” she says. “I have expectations, and yet I know that the actual experience of Antarctica will open up unknown and far-reaching possibilities."
Due to COVID-19 impacts on the Australian Antarctic Program, Laurence will travel to the icy continent during the 2021/22 season. Congratulations Janet!
Janet Laurence in her studio, photographed by Felicity Jenkins.