Contact
Email: laurenmccartneyartist@gmail.com
IG: @laurenmccartneyartist
Biography
Lauren McCartney is a multidisciplinary feminist artist who is based in Wollongong (Dharawal Country), New South Wales. Her work parodies objectification and conventions of appropriate female behaviour. She creates situations where her body is humorously exaggerated to the degree that she becomes a spectacle and an object of laughter, whilst simultaneously disrupting stereotypes and myths about femininity and misbehaviour. McCartney’s practice offers the concept that through failing with her materials and her body, she succeeds in creating her work.
McCartney holds a PhD (2018) through Curtin University and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (2010) (Honours Class I) from the University of Wollongong. Her work has been collected by the Art Gallery of Western Australia and she has exhibited her work and participated in presentations on her practice both nationally and internationally.
McCartney holds a PhD (2018) through Curtin University and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (2010) (Honours Class I) from the University of Wollongong. Her work has been collected by the Art Gallery of Western Australia and she has exhibited her work and participated in presentations on her practice both nationally and internationally.
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Exhibitions and Residencies
2020: Fantasy (II), Art, Not Apart Festival and Sound and Fury Afterparty, Canberra.
2020: Sequence, Feminist Art Festival, group exhibition, Feminist Art Collective, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2020: Here, with a bang! (I) FAUX MO, MONA FOMA, Launceston.
2019: Interview, group exhibition, Nyisztor Studio, Perth. Curated by Carla Adams.
2019: Here, with a bang! (I), solo exhibition, Cool Change Gallery, Perth.
2019: Here, with a bang! (I), solo exhibition, Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston.
2018: FAC 2018 Residency Open Studio Exhibition & Social, group exhibition, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands, Canada.
2018: Feminist Art Collective, residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands, Canada.
2016: Movement for Action, solo exhibition, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.
2015: Gestural Riot, as part of the group exhibition, SoDA15, John Curtin Gallery, Perth.
2015: Tearing Down the Grid With My Breath, as part of Video ARI, Channels Festival, Screenspace, Melbourne.
2015: The Hula Hooping Project, as part of PERFORMANCE, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.
2014: The Weight of Painting, solo exhibition, Paper Mountain, Perth.
2014: The Hula Hooping Project, solo exhibition, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.
2014: Reflection Paintings, solo exhibition, Melody Smith Gallery, Perth.
2014: Reflection Painting, commissioned group exhibition, Light Lockers Art Space, Perth.
2011: Untitled, group exhibition, Drawing Room, Sydney.
2011: Projecting Forward, group exhibition, Project Art Space, Wollongong.
2011: Intersections, group exhibition, At the Vanishing Point, Sydney.
2011: What You See is What You See, group exhibition, Project Art Space, Wollongong.
2010: Multiple Personality Order, solo exhibition, TAEM Gallery, University of Wollongong.
2010: In and Around, group exhibition, Project Art Space, Wollongong.
2009: Loose Change, group exhibition, Clifton School of the Arts, Wollongong.
2009: Books, Boxes and Collections, group exhibition, Vision and Space, Wollongong.
Conference Papers and Artist Talks
2020: INCUBATE: Reimagined, artist presentation, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth. Facilitated by Christopher Young
2018: Painting's Hysterical Slime: Wetness, Fat and the Female Body, artist presentation, Women, Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970, Melbourne.
2017: Slide Nights vol.V, artist presentation, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth. Chaired by Christopher Young.
2014: The Weight of Painting: The Transition of Feminist Action Painting, from Research to Practice, conference paper, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Tasmania. Session Chaired by Dr. Lauren McCartney and Dr. Miik Green.
2014: Lauren McCartney + Moe Beitiks, artist presentation, Miik Green Studio Presentation Nights, Perth.
2013: Remediating Painting and the Body: Baguettes, Breath and Paint, conference paper, in Open Session, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Session chaired by Dr.Toby Juliff.
2013: Remediating Painting: The Painted Body as a Support, conference paper, in Arts New Frontiers, The 8th International Conference on the Arts in Society, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Education
2012 - 2018: Doctor of Philosophy, School of Media, Creative Arts & Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University. Thesis title: Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting.
2007 - 2010: Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours Class 1), University of Wollongong.
Collections
Art Gallery of Western Australia and private collections.
2020: Fantasy (II), Art, Not Apart Festival and Sound and Fury Afterparty, Canberra.
2020: Sequence, Feminist Art Festival, group exhibition, Feminist Art Collective, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2020: Here, with a bang! (I) FAUX MO, MONA FOMA, Launceston.
2019: Interview, group exhibition, Nyisztor Studio, Perth. Curated by Carla Adams.
2019: Here, with a bang! (I), solo exhibition, Cool Change Gallery, Perth.
2019: Here, with a bang! (I), solo exhibition, Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston.
2018: FAC 2018 Residency Open Studio Exhibition & Social, group exhibition, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands, Canada.
2018: Feminist Art Collective, residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands, Canada.
2016: Movement for Action, solo exhibition, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.
2015: Gestural Riot, as part of the group exhibition, SoDA15, John Curtin Gallery, Perth.
2015: Tearing Down the Grid With My Breath, as part of Video ARI, Channels Festival, Screenspace, Melbourne.
2015: The Hula Hooping Project, as part of PERFORMANCE, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.
2014: The Weight of Painting, solo exhibition, Paper Mountain, Perth.
2014: The Hula Hooping Project, solo exhibition, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.
2014: Reflection Paintings, solo exhibition, Melody Smith Gallery, Perth.
2014: Reflection Painting, commissioned group exhibition, Light Lockers Art Space, Perth.
2011: Untitled, group exhibition, Drawing Room, Sydney.
2011: Projecting Forward, group exhibition, Project Art Space, Wollongong.
2011: Intersections, group exhibition, At the Vanishing Point, Sydney.
2011: What You See is What You See, group exhibition, Project Art Space, Wollongong.
2010: Multiple Personality Order, solo exhibition, TAEM Gallery, University of Wollongong.
2010: In and Around, group exhibition, Project Art Space, Wollongong.
2009: Loose Change, group exhibition, Clifton School of the Arts, Wollongong.
2009: Books, Boxes and Collections, group exhibition, Vision and Space, Wollongong.
Conference Papers and Artist Talks
2020: INCUBATE: Reimagined, artist presentation, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth. Facilitated by Christopher Young
2018: Painting's Hysterical Slime: Wetness, Fat and the Female Body, artist presentation, Women, Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970, Melbourne.
2017: Slide Nights vol.V, artist presentation, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth. Chaired by Christopher Young.
2014: The Weight of Painting: The Transition of Feminist Action Painting, from Research to Practice, conference paper, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Tasmania. Session Chaired by Dr. Lauren McCartney and Dr. Miik Green.
2014: Lauren McCartney + Moe Beitiks, artist presentation, Miik Green Studio Presentation Nights, Perth.
2013: Remediating Painting and the Body: Baguettes, Breath and Paint, conference paper, in Open Session, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Session chaired by Dr.Toby Juliff.
2013: Remediating Painting: The Painted Body as a Support, conference paper, in Arts New Frontiers, The 8th International Conference on the Arts in Society, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Education
2012 - 2018: Doctor of Philosophy, School of Media, Creative Arts & Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University. Thesis title: Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting.
2007 - 2010: Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours Class 1), University of Wollongong.
Collections
Art Gallery of Western Australia and private collections.