Statement

I am a multidisciplinary artist based on Gubbi Gubbi land in City of Moreton Bay, Queensland Australia. I also have experience as a multimedia designer and illustrator, having previously lived and worked on the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. My arts practice spans new media, painting, drawing, animation, installation, and object-making – often blending handmade elements with technology. 

My practice is marked by a willingness to create across mediums, driven by experimentation and conceptual integrity. My work often explores socio-political themes through both commentary and quiet reflection, prompting conversation around media influence, activism, social agency, and other complexities of contemporary life. I have a strong use of visual metaphors and symbolism in my work and often use humour and/or interactivity as devices to critically engage audiences. There is also a strong consideration of materials within my work.

My most recent body of work and solo exhibition, Long Transient Feeling (2015, 2026) includes new media installations, animations, and 2D works that use the motif of a train as a visual metaphor for collective unease in a time of uncertainty and compounding crises. The works explore how this sense of forward motion, despite an unclear destination, intersects with issues like post-truth instability, climate inaction, and growing social divides. Partly drawing from the allegorical tradition of the Ship of Fools, I have reimagined the train as both a symbol of collective momentum and a liminal space for reflection. Melancholic, yet edged with glimmers of hope and resilience, the works consider the tension between passivity and agency – and what it means to persist in a moment of time that feels simultaneously fast-moving and fixed in the status quo.

In the last few years I have also begun engaging in public art – showing animations on the facade of buildings and designing vinyl work for footpaths. 

Photo of artist by Louis Lim, courtesy of City of Moreton Bay
Photo of artist by Masimba Sasa

ARTIST BIO

Lauren Edmonds (b.1993) is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gubbi Gubbi land in City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, having previously lived and worked on the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. 

Edmonds began receiving awards, and selling artwork at age 13. By age 18, they had held two solo exhibitions (2009, 2012), and work exhibited at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art as part of the Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design (2012).

In 2015, Edmonds completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours) at Queensland College of Art. They have received multiple awards and finalist selections across drawing, animation, and new media installation; including finalist selection in the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing (2014), and receiving two Sunshine Coast Art Prize New Media Awards and finalist selections (2014, 2015). Their interactive work I dun good (2015) was selected for Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of New Media Art, touring nationally from 2018–2021.

After graduating, Edmonds developed a chronic illness that led to working in multimedia design and illustration for a number of years. In 2023, they returned with a year-long project animating three Pink Floyd songs from The Dark Side of the Moon for a global competition – becoming a finalist. One animation was selected to screen at Canada’s SPARK Animation Festival (2024). These works were adapted into an interactive video installation that won the Environmental Art Award at the 2024 Queensland Regional Art Awards, leading to a funded solo exhibition, Long Transient Feeling (Project Gallery 2025, The Hub Gallery 2026). 

Since their return, Edmonds has also engaged in public art – showing animations on the facade of the Adelaide Festival Centre (2024), a projection on the Judith Wright Centre of Arts Centre (2024), and two public art commissions with City of Moreton Bay Council (2024, 2025/26).