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Lauren (b. 1999, Dumfries and Galloway) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow. In 2021, she exhibited her series n00oodies at Photo London, Somerset House. More recently, in 2026, Lauren completed the shortlisted Shape Arts × Baltic Emergent Residency Programme and exhibited work at Strange Field and Spare Room Gallery.
In her work, Lauren uses abstraction and reconfiguration of archival material to investigate relationships with nature, societal constructs, selfhood, and technological systems. Her practice considers technological mediation as inseparable from lived experience, functioning as a structure through which identity, sexuality, and ecology are continuously formed and reformed.
Working across analogue and digital processes, Lauren explores the collapse of binaries between the organic and the synthetic, both conceptually and materially. Through the dissection and surreal reconstruction of visual and sonic material, her work destabilises fixed forms of meaning and representation, creating uncanny, unfamiliar bodies and nebulous environments that subvert anthropocentric and patriarchal narratives.
Lauren (b. 1999, Dumfries and Galloway) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow. In 2021, she exhibited her series n00oodies at Photo London, Somerset House. More recently, in 2026, Lauren completed the shortlisted Shape Arts × Baltic Emergent Residency Programme and exhibited work at Strange Field and Spare Room Gallery.
In her work, Lauren uses abstraction and reconfiguration of archival material to investigate relationships with nature, societal constructs, selfhood, and technological systems. Her practice considers technological mediation as inseparable from lived experience, functioning as a structure through which identity, sexuality, and ecology are continuously formed and reformed.
Working across analogue and digital processes, Lauren explores the collapse of binaries between the organic and the synthetic, both conceptually and materially. Through the dissection and surreal reconstruction of visual and sonic material, her work destabilises fixed forms of meaning and representation, creating uncanny, unfamiliar bodies and nebulous environments that subvert anthropocentric and patriarchal narratives.
EDUCATION:
2018-2021 BA (Hons) Photography - London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
2018 NPA Photography, Sighthill Campus, Edinburgh College, Edinburgh
EXHIBITIONS:
2026 (upcoming) Almost Home, Vespers Club, London
2026 Visual Poetry, Off Page, Glasgow
2026 Unfamiliar Bodies, Spare Room Gallery, Glasgow
2026 I Am Happy You Are Here, Strangefield, Glasgow
2024 The New Artist, Boomer Gallery, London
2024 Public, Shapes and Things, London (online)
2024 Fallacious Memory, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
2024 Burn It, Venue MOT, London
2022 Gallus Gallus, Open House Hackney, London
2021 Graduates Salon, Photo London, Somerset House, London
2021 UAL Graduate Showcase, London College of Communication (online)
2019 End of Year Exhibition, London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London
RESIDENCIES & DEVELOPMENT:
2026 Visual Poetry and Development Programme, Off Page, Glasgow
2025 Emergent Programme, Baltic X Shape Arts (shortlisted with package of support)
2022 Leaders Unlimited, DG Unlimited, Dumfries and Galloway
PUBLICATIONS:
2021 “Carnepolitics: The Meatification of women and animals” published in Emergencies: Notes for the Future Monument
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AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
2021 Nomination for the Aesthetica Magazine art prize
2021 Photo London Graduate Prize
2021 Metro Imaging Mentorship Award
2018-2021 BA (Hons) Photography - London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
2018 NPA Photography, Sighthill Campus, Edinburgh College, Edinburgh
EXHIBITIONS:
2026 (upcoming) Almost Home, Vespers Club, London
2026 Visual Poetry, Off Page, Glasgow
2026 Unfamiliar Bodies, Spare Room Gallery, Glasgow
2026 I Am Happy You Are Here, Strangefield, Glasgow
2024 The New Artist, Boomer Gallery, London
2024 Public, Shapes and Things, London (online)
2024 Fallacious Memory, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
2024 Burn It, Venue MOT, London
2022 Gallus Gallus, Open House Hackney, London
2021 Graduates Salon, Photo London, Somerset House, London
2021 UAL Graduate Showcase, London College of Communication (online)
2019 End of Year Exhibition, London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London
RESIDENCIES & DEVELOPMENT:
2026 Visual Poetry and Development Programme, Off Page, Glasgow
2025 Emergent Programme, Baltic X Shape Arts (shortlisted with package of support)
2022 Leaders Unlimited, DG Unlimited, Dumfries and Galloway
PUBLICATIONS:
2021 “Carnepolitics: The Meatification of women and animals” published in Emergencies: Notes for the Future Monument
read text here
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
2021 Nomination for the Aesthetica Magazine art prize
2021 Photo London Graduate Prize
2021 Metro Imaging Mentorship Award