Kay S Lawrence

Kay S Lawrence has a PHD from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. She completed her BFA with First Class Honours in Sculpture & Intermedia and Visual Culture in 2009. She sees art in all its forms as a means of communication, with the ability to connect people and places and lead to greater cultural understanding. Her interdisciplinary art practice critically engages with anthropological, physical and spiritual aspects of her surroundings, interweaving image, metaphor and abstraction. Her current research seeks understanding of how the visual and other sensual qualities of fibre and digital imagery contribute to understanding the complex relationship between time, space and the body. Frequently, her work addresses social justice and environmental issues. She has received artist residencies at Crane Arts, Philadelphia, Sandavinci College of Art and Design, Sanda City, Japan, Geidai University, Tokyo, Red Gate Artist Residency in Beijing and Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Australia. She exhibits regularly in Australia and has also exhibited in Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Philadelphia, Singapore and Lithuania. Her works are held in private collections in Japan, China, Singapore and Australia.


1954, Ipswich, Queens...

Education:

2014 PhD, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours (Double major in Sculpture & Intermedia and Visual Culture) Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, (Double major in Sculpture & Intermedia and Visual Culture) Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Solo
2016 Material Matters, Logan Art Gallery, Queensland
2015 EveryDay Matters, Foyer Gallery, ANU, Canberra
2014 Material Matters, Webb Gallery, QCA, Brisbane
2013 My Body is Mostly Water, Tai Project, Kunming, China
2012 Re/claimations, Crane Arts Old School, Philadelphia, USA
2011 Re/formations, POP Gallery, Woolloongabba, Queensland
2010 Microcystis, Pickled Art Space, 798 Art District, Beijing
2009 Condishions, brunswick street gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
2007 263 moments, TCB Gallery, Fortitude Valley, Queensland
Group
2015 Aug 15 - Sep 10 Listhus Art Residency, Iceland
2015 The Environmental Scream, Murwillumbah Art Trail, NSW
2015 The GAS - Graduate Art Show, Griffith University Art Gallery, Southbank
2014 Shifting Ground, HOLD Artspace
2014 Response to River, The Shed, Hamilton
2014 Meet van Gogh, Kunming, China
2014 A Knife and a Torch, HOLD Artspace, South Brisbane
2013 Down the Rabbit Hole, QCA, Southbank & USQ, Toowoomba
2013 Thoughts…that is, 8th International Biennial of Textile
Miniatures,Vilnius Lithuania
2013 The Philadelphia Connection, POP@AFG, South Brisbane
2012 Positive Feedback Loop, Browning Street Studios, West End
2012 T...