Lauren Black
Born — Ballarat, Victoria, 1971
Solo Exhibitions
2020 A Complex Beauty, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, Tasmania
2017/18 A Complex Beauty, The Art Gallery of Ballarat
2017/18 Memento Mori, Art medicine and the body, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
2017 Memento Mori: Art medicine and the body, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, TAS
2015 Memento Mori: Art medicine and the body, Allport Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, TAS
2011 Splendidus muscorum, Allport Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, TAS
2009 A Precarious Flowering, Rimbun Dahan, KL, Malaysia
2006 Tasmanian Flora, Australian National Botanical Gardens, ACT
2004 Flowers Fronds and Foliage, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Group Exhibitions
2017/18 Romancing the Skull , Art Gallery of Ballarat
2017 Pro-cession – Moonah Arts Centre, Tasmania
2016
Botanica, Sydney Botanical Gardens, NSW
Drawn into the Unknown, Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny Arts Centre, Tasmania
Procession, Moonah Arts Centre, Tasmania
Navigating the internal landscape: an artistic interpretation of disease, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Inveresk.
2012 Capturing Flora, Ballarat Art Gallery, VIC
2011 The Eternal Order in Nature, RBG Melbourne, VIC
2010 Mossmaniana, Morris Miller Library, UTAS
2008 Shifting Boundaries, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia
2007 Tasmanian Living Artists Week, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Tas
Fruits of our Labour, Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney, NSW.
2006 Transplanted to Tasmania. Allport Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, TAS
2006 Mountain Magic- the women, art and flora of Mount Wellington. State Library of Tasmania
2005Flora Tasmanica, a collaboration with Les Blakebrough. Plimsoll gallery, University of Tasmania
2004/2013 Margaret Flockton Award, Red Box Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2003 The Nature of Islands, (Ten Days on the Island) Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, TAS
Residencies and Awards
2017/18 Churchill Fellowship – UK, France and Italy
2017 HBA Museum of Anatomy and Pathology- artist in residence
2014 Penaga visual arts residency, Penang, Malaysia
2008 Rimbun Dahan, one year visual arts, residency, Malaysia
2005 Asialink residency, Sri Lanka
2004 Inaugural Margaret Flockton Award, Winner
Publications/Catalogue essays
2017 Native: Art and design with Australian Plants, Thames and Hudsen
2016 Drawn into the unknown – a collection of artists writing on process
2015 Memento Mori catalogue, essay by Peter Timms
2013 Art Monthly, Front cover
2012 Capturing Flora, Ballarat Art Gallery
2011 Splendidus muscorum catalogue, essay by Peter Timms
2010 A Precarious Flowering catalogue, essay by Dr Simon Cooper
2005 Tasmanian Flora: Limited edition portfolio
2005 Les Blakebrough: Ceramics, Craftsman House
2004 Tasmanian Streambank Plants, DPIWE, TAS
Collections
HRH Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, TAS
Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, TAS
University of Tasmania Fine Art Collection
R A Rodda Museum of Pathology, UTAS
National Library of Australia, ACT
Royal Botanic Gardens Library, Melbourne, VIC
Ballarat Art Gallery, VIC
Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia
Private collections Australia, Malaysia