Bundanon

Lauren Berkowitz has exhibited across institutional and commercial spaces in Australia and abroad.

Her work has been included in exhibitions themed around the environment and books on contemporary art practice including “Sculpture Today”, (Phaidon, 2007) and Art and Ecology Now (Thames and Hudson, 2014), that relate to sustainable practices.

Selected group exhibitions include, The National, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, In the Air, Monash Museum of Art, (2021), Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, (2013-2014); In The Balance: Art For A Changing World, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Achi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan, (2010). Berkowitz participated in Soft Sculpture, Australian National Gallery, Canberra 2009; Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan, (2003), and Between Art and Nature, Perspecta (1997), Art Gallery of New South Wales. Significant solo exhibitions include: “Fragile Ecologies”, Kronenberg Mais Wright Gallery, (2019); “Plastic Topographies,” Artspace, Sydney, (2018); “Manna”, La Trobe Museum of Art Melbourne, (2009).

In Residence at Bundanon

 Through daily walks in bushland at Bundanon, I will gather a harvest of vibrant matter, creating a still life assemblage of the pre-and post-colonial landscape. The artwork will include weeds, indigenous and exotic plants together with charcoal remnants from bushfires. It will incorporate eucalyptus and wattle, creating a sensory memory of the past. 

This project will draw attention to the complex evolution of the Australian landscape as one of change and entanglement with our colonial history, whilst looking at introduced plant and animal species, together with plastic and its toxic effects on the environment.