Bio

Kay S Lawrence was awarded her PhD from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, in 2014. She sees art in all its forms as a means of communication, with the ability to connect people and places and to lead to greater cultural understanding. Her interdisciplinary art practice critically engages with anthropological, physical and spiritual aspects of her surroundings, and interweaves image, metaphor and abstraction.

Lawrence use textiles and digital imagery as discrete art objects and as components of installation practice. She is concerned with fractures and dislocations of time/space continuum and the fragile and ephemeral nature of both life and time. She is particularly interested in the interpretation of space and light in installation practice; how we experience spaces through the relationship of our bodies to architectural spaces and a concomitant inner, psychological experience of those spaces.

As Bachelard proposed, she believes that space is not merely a container of objects, but where human perception resides and our memories inform the interpretation of space.

In her current studio research, she is seeking a better understanding of how the haptic and visual qualities of textile materials and digital imagery contribute to understanding the complex relationship between time, space and the body within the context of installation practice. She believes that fibre functions symbolically and metaphorically for the fragility and ephemerality of life and time. Dislocations in the time/space continuum are suggested by fragments of digital imagery.

This recontextualising brings new and shifting layers of content, perception and meaning to her art practice. She searches for the transformative elements among the ordinary and technologically sophisticated materials and techniques, which will provide the embodied experiences she creates.