This artwork represents the ocean. The flowing lines represent the tracks of our ancestors walking the land now under water. The tracks come together and flow away like the movement of water cascading and dancing with spirit. The white dots spread further apart bring a sense of calm, the feeling I get when I look out over the ocean.
Lauren is a contemporary Indigenous artist based in Newcastle, NSW. Art has always been a part of Lauren’s life, with her father being an Indigenous artist, and his father before him. She is a descendant of the Wiradjuri people, but grew up in Scott’s Head, NSW, a small rural town bordered by the beach and bush in Gumbaynggirr Country. This is where her love of nature stems from.
