NOW / SOON:

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HOARSE HORSE
Solo exhibition
29 November 2025 – 7 February 2026
Exhibition opening: Saturday 29 November, 16:00-20:00
ISA Art Gallery
Wisma 46 (Ground Floor), Jl. Jenderal Sudirman No.Kav. 1, Jakarta ID
with an accompanying film by Monika Proba
Stylish foxes, guarded birds of prey and raspy equines flock together in Ida Lawrence’s latest series of wild story-paintings at ISA Art Gallery. Enter at own risk! Hand sanitiser provided!
Free artist talk & music concert: Saturday 17 January 2026, 15:30
Ida Lawrence will lead an interactive artist talk, where playful storytelling, dialogue and activities bring the show’s themes to life in surprising ways. Berlin-based musician and composer, Khaled Kurbeh, will perform a concert amongst the paintings — featuring a menagerie of sounds: cow bells, jangling cat collars, bird call whistles, field recordings from nature and live improvised electro-acoustic textures of not yet imagined creatures and landscapes.
Open: Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11:00-18:00 free entry
Closed: 25 & 26 December, 1 January

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AUKTION 25
Art auction
Preview: 11 & 12 December 2025, 18:00-20:00
Auction: 13 December 2025, doors 18:00, start 19:00
Also online via google meet
Raum für drastische Maßnahmen
Oderstr. 34, 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain DE
Juana Anzellini, Renke Brandt, Juan Blanco, Stefan Brucherseifer, Mirja Busch, Franzi Dathe, Nikolas Claussen, Dennis Fuchs, Frank Freitag, Sebastian Haslauer, Julie Hart, Forster Herchenbach, Fons Hickmann, Lili Koronowski, Regina Kelaita, KFZ, Chrisse Kunst, Ida Lawrence, Studio Lindhorst-Emme+Hinrichs, Jean-Baptiste Monnin, Mouselephant, Gustavo Mendez (Los Otres), Julia Peters, Josefine Schulz, Matti Schulz, Marco Stanke, Juliana Toro, Sophia Uckmann, Stefan Wiens, Jonas Zink
Poster: studio lindhorst-emme+hinrichs

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LIKULLI FADĀIN EQĀÉH | لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه
– KHALED KURBEH
Album art & art booklet
I painted 10 landscape variations for Khaled Kurbeh‘s solo album of electro-acoustic compositions, featured on the cover and within a booklet in the gatefold vinyl.
A tapestry of soundscapes written, performed and recorded across four years as part of Kurbeh’s practice muhawalāt [attempts, variations] and hawāmesh [margins]: an outlet of gestures, sonic footnotes and observations from the everyday.
Hear / buy / see:
Digital
Vinyl including 12 page art booklet & digital download, ships worldwide
Vinyl also available at selected record stores & at Khaled’s concerts.
Composed, recorded and mixed by Khaled Kurbeh.
Mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering, Berlin.
Artwork by Ida Lawrence.
Graphic Design by Rik Watkinson.
Released by Research Records & muhawalāt, 18 July 2025.

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PASAR MALAM | NIGHT MARKET
Collaboration, group exhibition & Indonesia/Australia tour
I’m very very chuffed to have collaborated on a(n enormous) new silkscreen print (150 cm x 200 cm!) with the Jogjakarta collective Krack! Studio — and equally chuffed that it will be part of this tour:
• Pendhapa Artspace, Jogjakarta ID
Exhibition opening: Wednesday 14 May, 17:00
14 – 28 May 2025
• Semarang Contemporary Art Gallery, Semarang ID
Exhibition opening: Saturday 19 July 2025, 19:00
19 July – 17 August 2025
• then regional Australian galleries and museums 2026-2027.
Pasar Malam | Night Market is a group exhibition featuring screen prints by 15 Indonesian and Australian artists. Pasar Malam explores the transgressive spaces that exist in our society. If the morning market is a place for shopping and gossip, the night market is the opposite world, where our pent-up fears and desires are released. Pasar Malam is a collaboration between Krack! Studio and 16albermarle Project Space.
Alfin Agnuba, Amina McConvell, Enka Komariah, Ida Lawrence, Ipeh Nur, Jumaadi, Leyla Stevens, Malcolm Le Smith, Prihatmoko Moki, Restu Ratnaningtyas, Rizki Maulana, Rudi Hermawan, Tamarra, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Tobias Richardson.
Image: Ida Lawrence & Krack! Studio, Pasar Malam (It had come to her attention) 2025, 4-colour screenprint on 100% cotton Clairefontaine paper, 150 x 200 cm, edition of 4 + 2AP
PAST:

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ART JAKARTA 2025
Group exhibitions & art fair
3-5 October 2025
JIExpo Kemayoran, Jakarta ID
Untranslatable Cartographies, ISA Art Gallery, Booth B8
A. Sebastianus, Aiman, Arahmaiani, Ari Bayuaji, Ardi Gunawan, Dabi Arnasa, Dewi Fortuna Maharani, Ida Lawrence, Ines Katamso, Jumaadi, Luh’De Gita, Marisa R Ng, Melissa Tan, Sillyndris, Sinta Tantra, Tara Kasenda, Taufiq HT, Vanessa Jones, Yuki Nakayama, Yosefa Aulia, Zikry Rediansyah
&
Broken White Project, Ace House Collective, Booth S6
alongside the works of so many great artists
Image: Ida Lawrence, Air Air 2022, acrylic on canvas, 150 cm x 180 cm

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LIKULLI FADĀIN EQĀÉH | لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه
Concert & exhibition
Saturday 6 September 2025
Doors 18:30. Concert starts 20:00.
Hotti
Freiestrasse 56, 8032 Zürich CH (top floor)
Curated by Donia Jornod & Jeremy Ratib
Khaled Kurbeh & Ida Lawrence
We are very excited to announce an evening at Hotti with Berlin based artists Khaled Kurbeh and Ida Lawrence on Saturday September 6th. Khaled will interpret his new album Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh / (لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه) / (to each space its own rhythm), recently released on Research Records, alongside an intervention by Ida.
Khaled’s soundscapes find a counterpart in Ida’s landscape variation paintings; together they trace a path and invite us to wander with them, to notice, and to celebrate the beauty in the everyday. The cracking of sunflower seeds, the chirping of nearby swallows, plucked strings and shivering bells are delicate quantum fissures that surprise us along what Khaled describes as an “itinerary”. The album doesn’t suggest a destination to be reached, but rather evokes something cyclical, echoing the passing days in Ida’s paintings.

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ART MOMENTS 2025
Group exhibition & art fair
On Not Knowing, Booth A2, ISA Art Gallery
7-10 August 2025
Agora Exhibition Hall, Jakarta
A.Sebastianus, Aimi Kaya, Arahmaiani, Ardi Gunawan, Dabi Arnasa, Dolorosa Sinaga, Eunice Sanchez, Ida Lawrence, Ines Katamso, Issay Rodriguez, Jill Paz, Jumaadi, Kelli Maeshiro, Luh’De Gita, Rose Cameron, Sillyndris, Sinta Tantra, Tara Kasenda, Vanessa Jones, Yosefa Aulia, Yuki Nakayama, and Zikry Rediansyah

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TAUBENABERGLAUBEN
Solo exhibition
19 July — 2 August 2025
Exhibition opening: Friday 18 July, 19:00
Raum für drastische Maßnahmen
Oderstr. 34, 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain DE
In 1948 the American psychologist B.F. Skinner published “‘Superstition’ in the pigeon”, a paper detailing his avian experiments. Skinner had placed hungry pigeons in cages and fed them via a mechanical door at fixed time intervals. He observed 75% of the birds repeated behaviours that coincided with the first appearances of the feeder: spinning in circles, head thrusting, head tossing, swinging motions, or pecking. They had come to believe — mistakenly — that their actions could trigger the food.
At Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Ida Lawrence offers painted stories of appetite, desire and attempts at making meaning.
If the exhibition space is the cage, who then is the pigeon?
Closing event: Saturday 2 August, 16:00
Open: Thursdays – Saturdays, 15:00 – 20:00
Poster: studio lindhorst-emme+hinrichs

GESPRÄCHE MIT MONSTERN |
CONVERSATIONS WITH MONSTERS
Duo exhibition
7 June — 26 July 2025
Exhibition opening: Friday 6 June, 18:00
Galerie Bernau
Bürgermeisterstr. 4, 16321 Bernau bei Berlin DE
Ida Lawrence & Eva Pedroza
Wagen wir es, in ein Labyrinth einzutreten, wo fremde Kreaturen kriechen, und schreckliche Bestien lauern? Wo Monster lächeln und vielleicht eine helfende Hand ausstrecken?
Wer oder was genau ein Monster ist, kann nicht immer klar gesagt werden. In der Mythologie und in Märchen waren es oftmals Mischwesen, die von Helden im Rahmen ruhmreicher Aufgaben bezwungen werden mussten. In Medien werden Gewaltverbrecher teilweise so tituliert, um die unmenschliche Dimension ihrer Taten zu unterstreichen. Zeitgenössische Darstellungen hingegen lassen viele Monster als gebrochene, traumatisierte Gestalten erscheinen, welche die eigene Ambivalenz spiegeln und somit oftmals sogar zu Sympathieträgern werden lassen. Somit scheinen Monster wie ein schwarzer Spiegel, in denen wir unsere eigenen Abgründe und verdrängten Wünsche verschwommen erkennen können.
Events:
Closing & conversations with the artists, Saturday 26 July, 16:00
Open: Wednesdays – Fridays, 10:00 – 18:00
Saturdays, 10:00 – 16:00

NEUKÖLLN ART PRIZE
2nd Prize & Purchase Prize
15 February – 11 May 2025
Exhibition opening: Friday 14 February, 6pm – 10pm
Award ceremony: 7pm, Heimathafen
Galerie im Saalbau
Karl Marx Str. 141, 12043 Berlin DE
Curated by Nina Marlene Kraus
Supported by Diana Nowak + Clara von Schwerin
Nominees: Rita Adib, Fernanda Figueiredo, Ida Lawrence, Tra My Nguyen, Vanessa Amoah Opoku, Asako Shiroki, Bea Targosz, Helin Ulas
Events:
• Saturday 15 March, 3 pm – conversations with Rita Adib, Fernanda Figueiredo, Ida Lawrence, Tra My Nguyen, and assistant curators Diana Nowak and Clara von Schwerin
• Saturday 12 April, 3 pm – conversations with Asako Shiroki, Bea Targosz, Helin Ulas, Ida Lawrence and curator Nina Marlene Kraus
Open: 10:00 – 20:00, daily

DIE GELBEN SEITEN
Group exhibition
& book of original drawings by 130 artists
3 – 4 May 2025
Exhibition opening: Friday 2 May, 4pm – 8pm
Telefonzelle Wildenbruch/ Ecke Harzer Straße Berlin-Neukölln DE
An initiative of Raum www (Daniel Hahn & Johannes Mundinger) for Sellerie Weekend
Es ist 1995, Du kommst mit der 104* an der Haltestelle Wildenbruchstraße an. Du musst telefonieren und schaust Dich um – da vorne leuchtet es, Weiß und Magentafarben, Du hast die Telefonzelle gefunden. Schnell rein und die Gelben Seiten aufgeschlagen, irgendwo muss doch die Nummer stehen.
*heute die M43
Open: 14:00 – 18:00, Saturday & Sunday

ART JAKARTA GARDENS 2025
Art fair group exhibition
22 – 27 April 2025
ISA Art Gallery, Booth B1
Art Jakarta Gardens
Hutan Kota by Plataran, Jakarta ID
Day 1 & 2 (Tuesday 22 April – Wednesday 23 April):
Ida Lawrence, Sillyndris, Luh’De Gita, Dabi Aransa, Zikry Rediansyah
Day 3 & 4:
Special Duet Show – Tara Kasenda & Yuki Nakayama
Day 5 & 6:
Sinta Tantra, Jumaadi, A. Sebastianus, Arahmaiani, Hadassah Emmerich, Ines Katamso

WHERE THE SIDEWALKS END
&
THE PAPER MENAGERIE
Group exhibitions
27 February – 4 April 2025
ISA Art Gallery
Ground Floor, Wisma 46, Jl. Jendral Sudirman Kav. 1, Jakarta Pusat ID
Where the Sidewalks End
The Paper Menagerie
Open: 11:00 – 18:00, Tuesday – Sunday
2024:

REALITY CHECK
Solo exhibition
19 October – 15 November 2024
Exhibition opening: Saturday 19 October, 6pm – 9pm
Purga Artspace
Jl. Bisma, Ubud ID
Curated by Dwi S. Wibowo
Events, as part of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival:
• Panel discussion: Storytelling in art – how narrative shapes the visual form Friday 25 October, 5pm – 5:45 pm (free)
• Painting workshop: Visual translation – from the meaningful to the visual form Saturday 26 October, 10am – 12 noon
• Artist & Curator talk: Sunday 27 October, 4pm – 5pm (free)
Open: 07:00 – 22:00 daily

A FIELD IS A SONG – ALEXANDRA SPENCE
Text-drawing for LP liner notes
I had the pleasure of creating a text-drawing to accompany Alexandra Spence’s composition a field is a song.
Sound Offering II
Alexandra Spence / Michael Louttit
vinyl LP, 33rpm
Available from the Institute of Modern Art (IMA)
Released 2024

EVERYTHING WE INHERIT
Group exhibition
28 September – 29 November 2024
Exhibition opening: Saturday 28 November
ISA Art Gallery
Wisma 46, Jl. Jenderal Sudirman No.Kav. 1, Jakarta ID
Curated by Jennifer Yang
Agus Wijaya, Emma Ranni Hodges-Vanitlertpibon, Ida Lawrence, Janelle Low, Jenna Lee, Jumaadi, Linda Sok, Melissa Nguyen, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, and Zico Albaiquni.
Open: Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11:00 – 18:00

WÖRT, WÖRT!
Group exhibition
19 October – 9 November 2024
Exhibition opening: Friday 18 October, 7pm
Raum für drastische Maßnahmen
Oderstr. 34, 10247 Berlin DE
Curated by Nikolas Claussen
Juana Anzellini, Renke Brandt, Stefan Brucherseifer, Nikolas Claussen, Boris Dewjatkin, Anaïs Edely, Sebastian Haslauer, Lara Jordan, Tobi Keck, Regina Kelaita, Ida Lawrence, Clemens Schittko, Alsino Skowronnek, Matti Schulz, Mathias Pelda and Julius Voigt.
Events:
• 22 October, 1 pm Seminar of the KH Weissensee. About words in arts – Julius Voigt
• 9 November, 7 pm – Finissage with lectures and performances – tba
Open: Thursdays and Saturdays, 5 pm – 8 pm

UBUD WRITERS & READERS FESTIVAL 2024
Artwork commission
Interview with me about the painting Satyam Vada Dharmam Chara
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival
23 – 27 October 2024
Original painting displayed until 15 November in Indus Restaurant
Jl. Raya Sanggingan, Ubud, Bali, ID

BUNDANON
Artist residency
28 October – 3 November 2024
with Woven Kolektif
Woven Kolektif’s residency at Bundanon will involve a creative development and workshop series in collective art making. As past projects have been developed remotely and over distance, the time at Bundanon will be an opportunity to deepen their collective methodologies and work in proximity through a sustained residency period. Each member will lead activities through a structured series of workshops designed to generate new conversations within the group and to deepen their collective motivations and approaches to working together.

ART JAKARTA 2024
Group exhibition
Whispers of Sisyphus, Booth B9, ISA Art Gallery
4 – 6 October 2024
A. Sebastianus, Arahmaiani, Angki Purbandono, Ardi Gunawan, Dabi Arnasa, Eun Vivian Lee, Hadassah Emmerich, Galih Adika, Galih Johar, Ida Lawrence, Ines Katamso, Jaemin Lee, Jumaadi, Marisa R Ng, Natagon Khamkayprong, Summerayn (Motionbeast), Rose Cameron, Sillyndris, Sinta Tantra, Tara Kasenda, Trio Muharam, Yosefa Aulia, Yuki Nakayama, Zico Albaiquni, Zikry Rediansyah.

KARSTEN DOESN’T DRINK COFFEE
Solo exhibition
15 – 25 August 2024
Exhibition opening: Thursday 15 August, 6pm – 10pm
Retramp Gallery: Reuterstraße 62 12047 Berlin
Lonely salads.
Banished dogs.
Undead plants.
Not sipped coffees.
New story paintings by Ida Lawrence.
With an accompanying text by Rob Crosse.
Artist talk event: Saturday 24 August, 3pm – 4pm. If you would like a reserved spot, please email info@retramp.com
Open: Thur – Sun, 2pm – 8pm

TALKING … AND OTHER BANANA SKINS
Group exhibition
17 June 2022 – 11 August 2024
Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art
Bülowstraße 7, 10783 Berlin DE
Curator: Michelle Houston
1UP, Aec Interesni Kazki, Amartey Golding, Ana Barriga, Andreas Englund, Anna Lukashevsky, Bill Posters, Björn Heyn, Broken Fingaz Crew, Dave the Chimp, Denis Cherim, Disnovation, El Mac, Faisal Hussain, Faust, Franco Fasoli aka Jaz, Hijak, Hin, Hot Tea, Hugo Baudouin, Huh?, Icy and Sot, Ida Lawrence, Issac Cordal, Jan van Esch, Jeff Hong, Jimmy Turrell, Joséphone Sagna, Know Hope, Le Fou, Look the Weird, Low Bros, Noemi Conan, Olek, Rich Thorne, Rocco and his Brithers, Sepe, Simon Menner, Splash and Burn, Spy, Tezz Kamoen, The Wa, Various and Gould, Vera Kochubey, Yoann Bourgeois
Open: Tue-Wed 10:00-18:00, Thu-Sun 12:00-20:00

BIRAMA 3/4
in ART JAKARTA GARDENS 2024
Group exhibition
23 – 28 April 2024
Art Jakarta
Hutan Kota by Plataran, Jakarta ID
Booth B1: ISA Art Gallery
Ticketed. Or write to me if you’re interested to attend

COMMON BEAUTY II
Group exhibition, with Woven Kolektif
16 March – 16 April 2024
Nonfrasa Gallery
Jl. Raya Sanggingan No.21, Kedewatan, Kecamatan Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali ID
Curator: Savitri Sastrawan
Ayu Rika, Etza Meisyara, Evi Pangestu, Gusti Dalem, Jemana Murti, Lintang, NPAAW, Nyoman Darmawan, Pande Wardina, Sastra Wibawa, Victoria Kosasie, Woven Kolektif

CURRENCY EXCHANGE
Group exhibition
27 January – 17 February 2024
Exhibition opening: Friday 26 January 2024, 5-9pm
BPA// Raum
Sophienstraße 21, Sophie-Gips-Höfe 10178 Berlin DE
Initiated by BPA// participant Zhiyuan Yang. Each artist was invited to create an artwork with (or about) a banknote. Through (de/re)valuations of money, Currency Exchange sheds light on currency as an integral part of national identity and statehood, on value systems, economic policies, exchange rates and the physical existence of banknotes, rendered both as obsolete, and as collectible items. After the exhibition, each artist will receive another artist’s work as a form of trade: a gesture of equal exchange beyond art market or material value.
Jan Berger, Johannes Büttner, Grayson Earle, Will Fredo, Sarah Friend, Amauta Garcia & David Camargo, Heyon Han, Andrea Felizitas Karch, Johanna Klingler, Simone Miné Koza, Hamlet Lavastida, Ida Lawrence, Maness, Arash Nassiri, Natis, Josefine Reisch, Xavier Robles de Medina, Anna-Lisa Scherfose, Tian Guoxin, Zhiyuan Yang, Hana Yoo, Jasmin Werner
Open: Friday – Saturday, 15:00–18:00
2023:

HOME AND AWAY
Group exhibition
22 November 2023 – 3 February 2024
Exhibition opening: Wednesday 22 November 2023, 6pm
16albermarle Project Space
16 Albermarle Street, Newtown NSW 2042 (Gadigal / Sydney) AU
Curators: Dr Luise Guest & Jennifer Yang
Ida Lawrence, Jessica Bradford, Linda Sok, NC Qin, Ruth Ju-Shih Li, Shoufey Derz, Tianli Zu
Open: 11am – 5pm Thu – Sat, or by appointment
Events:
• Catalogue Launch: Thursday 25 January 2024, 5:30 pm
• Chinese Paper Cutting Workshop: Thursday 25 January 2024, 3 pm – 5 pm
Image: Ruth Ju-Shih Li, Distant memories, 2021, black clay, porcelain, pigment, glaze, custom metal stand, 24.5 x 20.5 x 15 cm (32 x 21 x 15 cm with stand)

BPA// EXHIBITION 2023: AMID THE ALIEN CORN
Group exhibition
25 November 2023 – 7 January 2024
Exhibition opening: Friday 24 November 2023, 7pm
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
KW front house: Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin DE
Curator: Sofie Krogh Christensen
Assistant Curator: Sophia Yvette Scherer
Johannes Büttner (in collaboration with Julian Vogel), Grayson Earle, Heyon Han, Sebastian Jefford, Ida Lawrence, Maness, Simone Mine Koza, Bassem Saad, Tian Guoxin, Jasmin Werner
Open: Wed–Mo 11 am – 7 pm, Thu 11 am – 9 pm, Tue closed
Events: Registration via bpa@berlinprogramforartists.org
Show & Tell with the artists #1: 14 December, 7 pm
Show & Tell with the artists #2: 4 January, 7 pm
Image: Heyon Han, Mowing Devil, film still, 2019.

FUSION FLUX
in ART JAKARTA 2023
Group exhibition
17– 19 November 2023
Art Jakarta
JIExpo Kemayoran, Jakarta Utara ID
Booth B10: ISA Art Gallery
Public Access: 18 – 19 Nov 2023, 11 AM – 9 PM
Ticketed. Or write to me if you’re interested to attend

WHERE IS THE LINE?
in ART MOMENTS
Group exhibition
18-20 August 2023
Art Moments Jakarta: Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel
Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda, Jakarta 12240 ID
Booth: ISA Art Gallery
Alexander Sebastianus, Ardi Gunawan,Arie Smit, Bandu Darmawan, Dolorosa Sinaga, Eun Vivian Lee, Galih Adika, Hannah Shin, Ida Lawrence, Ines Katamso, Jumaadi, Luh Gede Sangita, Rose Cameron, Septian Harriyoga, Sinta Tantra, Tara Kasenda, Yosefa Aulia, Yuki Nakayama

THE WOO WOO
Group exhibition
14 July – 23 September 2023
sweet pea at Lawson Flats
4 Sherwood Court, Perth WA 6000 (Boorloo Perth) AU
Jessee Lee Johns, Ida Lawrence, Curtis Taylor, Gemma Watson

ART W**K
Podcast
A joy to wonk, wink, wank about my work, wirk, wark with Julie and Fiona on Episode 152 of the Art Wank podcast.

Woven Kolektif has a website now!

MASSIVE OVERSHARE
Artist talk
15 March 2023, 1 – 2pm
Black Theatre
National Art School, Sydney AU

Mengingat 25 Tahun Reformasi (Remembering 25 Years of Reformation)
Group exhibition / Collaboration with Woven Kolektif
7 March – 7 April 2023
Cemeti – Insitut untuk Seni dan Masyarakat
Jl. DI. Panjaitan No 41, Kec. Mantrijeron, Yogyakarta ID
Artistic Director: Alia Swastika
Curators: Dwiki Nugroho Mukti & Savitri Sastrawan

FLIGHT
Group exhibition
21 January 2023 – 11 June 2023
Launch event: 21 January 2023
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
1 Powerhouse Road, Casula NSW (Sydney) AU
Daniel Adgag, Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan, Linda Brescia , Rebecca Brady, Chris Caines, Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council with Nic Walker, Fei Gao, Claire Grant, George Haddad, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Chris Hunter, Samuel Hodge, Christelle Hug, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Ida Lawrence, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Anna Madeleine Raupach, Amy Perejuan-Capone, Pamela Rodoreda, Matte Rochford, Talia Smith, Garry Trinh
The exhibition also includes objects and artefacts loaned from Museums of Arts and Applied Sciences.
Supported by Sydney Festival
Image: Amy Perejuan-Capone, The Plane (Dreamer), 2019, ceramic engine and parts, aluminium, found objects

SUA KUASA MATRA
Group exhibition
18 March – April 2023
ISA Art Gallery
Wisma 46 – Kota BNI, Jakarta ID

BASA-BASI / CHIT-CHAT
in ART SG
Solo exhibition
11-15 January 2023
Art SG
Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore
Booth: ISA Art Gallery, FC-15
2022:

TITIK KUMPUL (MEETING PLACE)
Group Exhibition
26 August – 28 August 2022
Art Jakarta
JCC Senayan
Jl. Gatot Subroto No.1, Kota Jakarta Pusat, Jakarta 10270 ID
Booth: ISA Art Gallery, C3
Alexander Sebastianus, Arahmaiani, Aaron Taylor Kuffner, Bonggal Hutagalung, Gabriel Aries, Hadassah Emerich, Hannah Shin, Hardi Budi, Ida Lawrence, Ines Katamso, Jompet Kuswidananto, Jumaadi, Marisa R. Ng., Miko Veldkamp, Nico Dharmajungen, Sinta Tantra, Tara Kasenda, Vanessa Jones
1 – 9 PM

SPOILER ALERT
Group Exhibition
27-28 August 2022
Exhibition opening: Saturday 27 August, 18:00-21:00
BPA// Raum
Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Sophienstr. 21, 10178 Berlin
Orawan Arunrak, Benjamin Busch, Johannes Büttner, Rob Crosse, Simon Denny, Willem de Rooij, Grayson Earle, Sarah Friend, Tian Guoxin, Heyon Han, Tang Han, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Julian Irlinger, Sebastian Jefford, Paul Kolling, Ida Lawrence, Maness, Zoë Claire Miller, Simone Mine Koza, Shirin Mohammad, Nnenna Onuoha, Shirin Sabahi, Anna-Lisa Scherfose, Ernie Wang, Jasmin Werner, Arts of the Working Class.
Spoiler Alert is (spoiler alert) a critique geared towards cars and capital operating at the intersection of Sophienstraße and Gipsstraße by Berlin Program for Artists participants and friends. This is a crash course on acceleration and the roundabout ways in which reversal of artistic license is tiring to pedestrian routes of fueling understanding. In this show, artists take a departure from their usual practices to reinvent the wheel and invite passengers to co-navigate the complexities of adhesive geometric culture (bumper stickers) in which meaning is parallel parked.
Image: Heyon Han

FERMENTED FEELINGS
in ART JAKARTA GARDENS
Solo exhibition
7-14 April 2022
Art Jakarta Gardens
Hutan Kota by Plataran
Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.Kav. 54-55, Gelora, Kecamatan Tanah Abang, Jakarta, 12190 ID
Booth: ISA Art + Design, B1
Image: Ida Lawrence, Good Intentions (Mau Beli Oleh-Oleh Untuk Tante) (detail) 2021, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 155 cm
2021:

CASCADE
Collaborative exhibition with Woven Kolektif
20 November – 18 December 2021
Outer Space
420 Brunswick Street (cnr Brunswick & Berwick Streets), Fortitude Valley QLD (Meanjiin / Brisbane) AU
Curator: Leyla Stevens
Open: Wed – Sat, 10 am – 5pm
Poster design: Nina M Gibbes

A BIRD IN THE GRASS IS WORTH A THOUSAND HEARTS
Duo exhibition: Caitlin Hespe & Ida Lawrence
10 – 19 September 2021
Exhibition opening: Friday 10 September 2021, 5pm-9pm
Retramp Gallery
Reuterstr. 62, 12047 Berlin DE
Curator: Katia Hermann
Open: Fri – Sun, 3 pm – 7 pm

NOTHING’S GONNA CHANGE MY WORLD
Publication
Edited by raum www: Daniel Hahn & Johannes Mundinger
Designed by Daniel Hahn
Offset printing
24 x 17 cm
276 pages, colour
Print / Binding Druckhaus Sportflieger
Edition of 250
20€ plus shipping – order through raum www
A pleasure to be included in raum www’s stunning publication, an archive of 230 artists’ responses whose exhibitions have been postponed or cancelled due to the pandemic. All the results are shown from 13 August to 5 September 2021 in an exhibition at Berlin art space gr_und and printed in a book with greeting by Dr Klaus Lederer and introduction by Laura Helena Wurth.

LEILA AND THE POET – DA LA LA LA TI-RA-TA
Film by Jasmina Metwaly
It was a joy to experiment and collaborate (as Dog DJ, Senior Cut-Out-er-rer, Imperfect-Circle Advisor, Assistant Mind-Mapper etc) with Jasmina Metwaly and the team on this film project: an homage to the music, stories and philosophies of Halim El-Dabh, based on A Sonic Letter to Halim El-Dabh by Kamila Metwaly.
Available to watch for free (or with voluntary payment):
Leila and the Poet – da la la la ti-ra-ta
Commissioned by MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues
ca. 30 minutes
24 March – 30 June 2021
Image: Jasmina Metwaly, Leila and the Poet – da la la la ti-ra-ta 2021, film still

(re) Visiting the archive: ADSR zine
Group exhibition and zine launch
7 April – 10 April 2021
Performances / exhibition opening / launch of ADSR Zine 013:
Wednesday 7 April 2021, 7pm
World Square, cnr George and Goulburn St, Sydney AU
The one time I cooked (in 2019) was documented in ADSR Zine’s Edition 004 and the proof is also part of their archive exhibition!
as part of Now You Hear Her program
Open: 12-4pm Thu 8 April, 12-4pm Fri 9 April, 11-3pm Sat 10 April
2020:

BUAH TANGAN
in ART JAKARTA VIRTUAL
Group exhibition (virtual)
19 October – 15 November 2020
Art Jakarta
38 galleries + 16 art collectives
Booth: ISA Art + Design
Adam de Boer, Hadassah Emmerich, Ines Katamso, Ida Lawrence, Sinta Tantra
Zoom Artist Talk: Friday 30 October, 8-9pm Jakarta Time
Registration
Image: Ida Lawrence, Oleh-Oleh Fails 2020, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 155 cm

ENERGETIC MIND
Merch
Made a mind maze drawing for Bonniesongs’s Energetic Mind album merchandise, drawing inspiration from the title track lyrics:
Energetic mind over body leads to anxiety
Grab your bike and ride and ride and ride and ride until the water

URBAN PRESENTS
Interview
As part of the StillStand mural initiative, I had a lot of fun being interviewed by Katja Aksenenka for Urban Presents. Here’s the article in English and German, with an introduction and curation of photographs by Katia Hermann.
Image: Ida Lawrence, I Fill My Days in Other Ways 2020. Photo: Lukas K Stiller

STILLSTAND
Mural Project
May-July 2023
Urban Spree wall facing Warschauer Str. (near Warschauer Str. 54)
Revaler Str. 99, Friedrichshain, Berlin DE
Real thrilled to have been selected as one of 4 artists to paint the 8 x 15 metre wall of Urban Spree as part of the StillStand mural project! The open call asked for proposals for murals that highlighted the importance of art and culture during the COVID-19 crisis.
And I get to work with a fantastic group of people who are bringing this project to life:
Organisers/jury/curators: Señor Schnu • Urban Spree
Jury/curators: Katia Hermann • Johannes Mundinger • Julia Benz
Documenting team: Sophie Schermer • Lukas K Stiller • Sehr Bueno • Katja Aksenenka • Anna Neis
Image: Ida Lawrence, I Fill My Days in Other Ways (in progress) 2020. Photo: Sophia Schermer
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4A KIDS
I’ve been outed as a kid. Specifically a 4A kid. Had a lot of fun contributing an art activity for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art’s online kids program. The guide states quite explicitly that it’s for kids but I think grown-ups shouldn’t feel left out. It’s free to download and includes other arty-crafty fun times by Rainbow Chan, Abdul-Rahman Abdulluh and Marikit Sanitago:
Thanks 4A for inviting me, getting creative about sharing art with audiences and supporting Australian artists during This Time. And how cool is the design!?! (very)
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BARA: embers
Exhibition extended & moved online: 2 March – 28 April 2020
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BARA: embers
Woven Kolektif
Bara are the smouldering embers.
Bara can start a fire and are there at the finish of the fire.
Bara keep alive something which can easily be put out, or be lit again.
What do our inner embers tell us? What do we carry within and amongst us? We question where our culture lies — in the heat of the bara, or in the water that puts them out? How do we use the heat of the bara for regeneration and growth?
Woven Kolektif share installation and performances drawing on the concept of bara and its potential to offer healing, belonging and new possibility.
Bankstown Arts Centre
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INTER(SUBJECT)IVITY
30 UNDER 30
Excited to have my paintings hanging alongside works by this great group of artists: Hannah Shin, Ella Wijt, Ines Katamso, Patricia Untario, Rega Ayundya Putri, Ruth Marbun, Talitha Maranila, Andrita Yuniza Orbandi, Claudia Dian, Anastasia Astika, Natasha Lubis, Etza Meisyara, Melta Dessyka, Aisya Rosli.
Hosted by
3 – 6 PM – Lince Selopranoto & Alexandra Corridini
6 – 8 PM – Jessica Chang, Deli Makmur, Laksmi Pamuntjak & Miki Fuentes
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On Care for NSW South Coast fire relief
In solidarity with NSW South Coast communities affected by bushfires, Woven Kolektif is offering a special edition of 50 of our audio archive, On Care.
On Care is a 41 minute collection of audio recordings centred around moments of solace and care, with some incredibly moving contributions from our local and international communities. This audio was originally exhibited as part of Woven Kolektif’s collaborative installation, Breathing Room, that created a temporary gathering space at Cement Fondu Project Space in 2019.
On Care is available for $40+ donation to Bhenji Ra’s direct emergency relief fund, On The Ground And Beyond 2020. Bhenji is providing crucial community support to south coast residents and families affected by bushfires on Yuin land. We offer our gratitude and love to Bhenji and her support network for providing immediate relief for south coast families.
If you would like to purchase an edition of On Care, we ask that you make a minimum donation of $40 to Bhenji Ra’s Gofundme, and send a screenshot of your receipt to woven.kolektif@gmail.com. If you have the capacity to donate more than $40, we strongly encourage you to do so.
Image: Woven Kolektif, Breathing Room, photo courtesy Cement Fondu
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Woven Kolektif has been nominated for an FBi Radio SMAC (Sydney Music, Arts & Culture) Award in the Best Artist category. Thrilled! And amongst fine company!
Voting, until 31 January 2020: fbiradio.com/vote
Winners announced 11 February
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IN CONVERSATION: FX HARSONO X IDA LAWRENCE
634 The Horsley Dr, Smithfield NSW
Public Programs:
New Golden Record (based on the Voyager Golden Record)
Saturday 10 August 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Ages: 9 – 16 years
Participants will create images, write stories and make sound recordings on ipads, explaining our earth, the local area and human cultures to alien life. These collated creations will then be collected into a sound and image video montage which will be published on social media. Permission to photograph will be required to participate in this workshop.
Cost: $5. Bookings essential. Call (02) 9725 0190 to book or register online.
Fairfield City Museum & Gallery: 634 The Horsley Dr, Smithfield NSW, Parking off Oxford St
Imaginative Histories (sculpture and storytelling)
Saturday 24 August 10.30am – 12.30pm
Ages: 9 – 16 years
Be led on a semi-fictional tour of the Vintage Village, to imagine and speculate on the significance and activities behind the buildings. After this tour, you will return to fabricate your own ‘artefact’, inventing their curious functions and histories surrounding them. Finally, your creation will be documented in the location they were first ‘discovered’. Permission to photograph will be required to participate in this workshop.
Cost: $5. Bookings essential. Call (02) 9725 0190 to book or register online.
Fairfield City Museum & Gallery: 634 The Horsley Dr, Smithfield NSW, Parking off Oxford St
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THE ESSAYIST
Curated by Jasmin Stephens
Benjamin Forster, Ida Lawrence, Jac Ball, Magda Stanová, Mark Hislop, Mitch Cairns, Nina Ross, Phuong Ngo, Pilar Mata Dupont
Opening Saturday 3 August, 2pm
Opening remarks by writer Astrid Lorange
Exhibition continues until 31 August 2019
The Cross Art Projects
8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross 2011
Hours: 11am to 6pm, Thursday to Saturday
The essayist is an exhibition inspired by the literary form of the essay. It presents work characterised by the exacting thinking, careful observation and increasingly confessional aesthetic associated with contemporary essay writing. It is a mode of writing that has come to prominence through writers such as Maggie Nelson and Teju Cole. Against this backdrop of recent attention to first-person writing and the rise of digital readership, today’s essay making – at turns memoir, poetry, philosophy and criticism – is shaped by theoretical shifts relating to feminist, non-binary and embodied approaches to thought and feeling.
The exhibition and its works are not intended to replicate the format of the essay. Their cumulative effect might be to represent or elicit the qualities of an essay. In this exhibition, the artists are addressing a range of concerns. Their works explore private and shared cognition, sensation and allegiances across the body, language, landscape, history and family and include citations and influences drawn from disciplines such as cultural geography, environmental humanities and neuroscience. While reflecting a kind of essayistic disposition, they express different relationships to materials and to considerations of sensibility, structure and form.
Image: Magda Stanová, from the series Algorithms in Art, 2015-19, The phantom could represent an artist, and the detectives, people who visit his/her shows 2019, ink, acrylic, and inkjet print on paper, 35 x 53 cm
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THE SOUND OF SHADOWS
Join Bianca Gannon and Ida Lawrence on an adventure through the music, art and food traditions of our nearest neighbours – Indonesia. As you journey through The Sound of Shadows you will play and wear endangered food-related musical instruments such as the duck herders’ Bundengan, try out traditional shadow puppets and sample delicious Indonesian food! Whistle while you work and providing food for thought! This performance involves sampling food. Please contact us if you or your child has a food allergy.
ArtPlay’s New Ideas Lab supports artists and children to work together to develop new arts experiences.
Age: 6 – 10 years. Each child must be accompanied by an adult. Please contact us if you or your child has any access requirements.
Location: ArtPlay, Birrarung Marr, Behind Federation Square, Melbourne VIC 3000
Sessions:
Saturday 3 August: 10-11am, 11.45am-12.45pm
Sunday 4 August: 11.45am-12.45pm, 1.30-2.30pm
Cost: $16 per child, accompanying adult is free.
Bookings essential
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ECOLOGIES OF BEING
Wed – Fri 11:00am – 6:00pm, Sat 11:00am – 4:00pm
Kudos Gallery acknowledges and pays respect to the Bidjigal and Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which Kudos is situated.
Image: Louise Zhang, ‘Feed you pink’ (series) 2018, polyfoam, resin, acrylic, rope. Courtesy of the Artist and Artereal Gallery.
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BREATHING ROOM
Opening Saturday 25 May, 6-8pm
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Image: Alfira O’Sullivan performing Weekends are for washing at the launch of looking here looking north. Image care of Casula Powerhouse Art Centre. Photography detail by Chantel Bann
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Brisbane and Elsewhere Art UnTriennial (BEAUT)
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THE SOUND OF SHADOWS
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LOOKING HERE LOOKING NORTH
Extended until 17 March
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre with Woven Kolektif
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ASYIK CASULA: Indonesian Cultural Day
Sunday 10 February, 10:30am-3pm
Artist Talks 2pm
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
Free
At this year’s ASYIK, I am running a workshop called About Batik and participating in the artist talks.
ASYIK CASULA: Indonesian Cultural Day is an asyik day of activities for all ages (asyik meaning “fun!” and “enjoy!” in Indonesian slang). The day includes art workshops, dance and Acehnese body percussion workshops with Suara Indonesia Dance and performances by Sydney’s Indonesian community. The day concludes with a conversation with artists involved in the looking here looking north exhibition and a performance by Kartika Suharto-Martin. Indonesian food, traditional drinks and crafts will be available to purchase on the day(please bring cash). Bellbird Dining & Bar will also be open.
Image: Suara Indonesia Dance Group, photo by Astrid Jayengsari
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LOOKING HERE LOOKING NORTH
So looking forward to exhibiting some new (big!) narrative paintings of my experiences in Indonesia at Casula Powerhouse alongside my Wovens — Alfira O’Sullivan, Bridie Gillman,Kartika Suharto-Martin, Mashara Wachjudy, Sofiyah Ruqayah and Leyla Stevens (exhibition essay).
12 January – 17 March 2019
Launch: Saturday 19 January 2019 2-4pm, including a performance by Alfira O’Sullivan at 2:30pm
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 1 Powerhouse Road, Casula NSW
Getting to Casula
looking here looking north is an exhibition by Woven, a collective of artists who each have continuing personal ties to Indonesia. Drawing on lived cross-cultural experiences, memories and observations in Indonesia and Australia, the artists’ works explore connections to family, place and culture, both familiar and unfamiliar. For some of the artists, their creative process provides an opportunity to strengthen these connections; for others, the work itself is a place to reflect on feelings of ‘between-ness’ or cultural and geographic disconnect. Other works share poetic and humorous responses to the complex and sometimes surprising realities of contemporary Indonesia, including Bali’s tourism hubs. In this exhibition, the artists express these stories, observations, meditations and imagined possibilities through performance, painting, installation, photography and video.
looking here looking north is presented as part of a suite of exhibitions showcasing perspectives on Indonesia along with intricately stitched quilts by Frances Larder exploring Indonesia’s colonial past and an exhibition of video works of characters and scenes by Jumaadi (one of my fave contemporary artists!) drawing on Indonesian shadow puppetry traditions to connect people, places, time, history, memory and nature.
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BONNIESONGS EP
Chuffed to have completed some illustrations for Bonniesongs’ EP Strings. This is my second project with Bonniesongs, after our stop motion animation collab. How’s this for a bargain – spend $15 and receive THREE of my artworks (printed on the EP cover, back cover and CD) AND over TWENTY-FOUR minutes of wondrous sounds!
Launch event at City Recital Hall, 2-12 Angel Place, Sydney
Thursday 6 September 2018, 9-10pm
Tickets
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BEING A BODY
Very happy to have been a body in one of Alexandra Spence‘s Scores for bodies and/in time, which she is exhibiting in the group show Score Club | Club Score at firstdraft.
Opens Wednesday 5 September 2018, 6-8pm
Image: Alexandra Spence, Scores for bodies and/in time 2018, video still
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ASYIK BAZAAR
I am excited to be showing works alongside beauties by other Australian-Indonesian artists in this year’s ASYIK Indonesian art and culture bazaar! It’s a day of food, dance, art, craft and kids activities. Ayo datang ya!
Artists:
Mashara Wachjudy
Kartika Suharto-Martin
Sofiyah Ruqayah
Kyati Suharto-Martin
Ida Lawrence
Saturday 23 June 2018, 11am-4pm
Gumbramorra Hall, Addison Road Community Centre, Marrickville
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Thank you Dwi S. Wibowo for sharing your thoughts about my solo exhibition at Redbase Foundation!
(And for the shout out to the Fitri Graham Foundation!)
Read the review from Jawa Pos (in Indonesian)
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Thanks Haris Firdaus and Kompas for the review of my exhibition Jangan Lupa Bawa Oleh-Oleh Ya!
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JANGAN LUPA BAWA OLEH-OLEH YA
(dan apa yang kita ambil dari suatu tempat)
(and thoughts on what we take from a place)
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RESIDENCY AT REDBASE FOUNDATION
Very excited to begin a residency with Redbase Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia!
December 2017 – January 2018
Meet the Artists:
Citra Sasmita (Bali) & Ida Lawrence
Saturday 16 December 2pm
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HEADGEAR 6LC
MILS Gallery @ Lilac City
~~~Ida Lawrence~~~h.j.huwman~~~Simone Griffin~~~Adriano Rosselli~~~Eko Bambang Wisnu~~~Roman Stachurski~~~Siena White~~~Amelia Skelton~~~Nick Modrzewski~~~Harrison Witsey~~~ Eva Troyeur-Gibson~~~Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier~~~Ryan Hancock~~~Nicole Toms~~~Yuta Matsumura~~~
Opens Friday 14 July 2017, 6-8pm
Lilac City, 101-103 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia
Continues until Sunday 16 July
Opening Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm
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HOME ALONE 1: SOLITARY PLEASURES
Curated by Georgina Downey
Neville Cichon (SA), Anna Horne (SA), Ida Lawrence (NSW), Joanne Makas (NSW)
Lauren May (VIC), Catherine Polcz (NSW), Flore Sivell (FRA), Mel Jane Wilson (VIC)
Home Alone 1: Solitary Pleasures explores everyday individual domestic life as a key space of contemporary art in terms of experience, materials and conceptual reflection. It does so by enlarging aesthetically on the familiar and homely objects of the everyday, and their use in daily rituals around upkeep of the body and the home.
Opening Friday 7 April 2017, 6-8pm
Floating Goose Studios
271 Morphett St Adelaide
Exhibition continues until 30 April
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WOVEN
Leyla Stevens, Bridie Gillman, Alfira O’Sullivan, Kartika Suharto-Martin, Ida Lawrence and Mashara Wachjudy
Opening Thursday 6 April 2017, 5:30-8pm
Performance by Alfira O’Sullivan and Suara Indonesia Dance, 7pm
Exhibition continues until 29 April
Woven is an exhibition and performance event that ties together the practices of six female Australian artists who each have personal connections to Indonesia. These connections exist through the artists having an Indonesian parent, being immersed in the culture and living part of their childhood in the archipelago, and living there more recently. The artists’ works explore the complexities of history, identity, memory and cross-cultural understanding – on both personal and national levels – and span installation, performance, painting, collage, photography, video and sculpture.
https://verge-gallery.net/2017/01/23/april-woven-translated-roots/
PUBLIC PROGRAMS :
+ Artist and curator introduction, April 6, 5:30pm- 6pm
+ Performance by Alfira O’Sullivan and Suara Indonesia Dance, April 6, 7pm
+ Discussion: A Third Space : Transience and Identity in The Transnational, April 20, 5:30-7:30pm
+ Monograph x Verge, April 22, 10:30am-4pm
+ Art crit and artist discussion, April 29, 1-3pm
Verge Gallery
Jane Foss Russell Plaza,
(near Wentworth Building)
City Road, Darlington.
University of Sydney
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday 11am-4pm
Closed Easter holidays and ANZAC Day
Image: Leyla Stevens, Wong Samar 2016, video still
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MILS BOOK
The late MILS Gallery (2009-2016) launched (catapult and all!) a book which features my two passions: art and admin.
Do yourself a favour and decorate your coffee table via the following link: milsgallery.com/hmls-001
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FITRI GRAHAM’S MELANCHOLIA: A RETROSPECTIVE
Curated by Ida Lawrence
Contributions by Kate O’Boyle, Kathleen Linn,
Monika Proba and Sebastian Henry-Jones
Opening 6 January 2017, 6pm
until 28 January
KINGS Artist-Run
Lvl 1 / 171 King St
Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
The Fitri Graham Foundation and KINGS Artist-Run proudly present the first retrospective of Australia’s least celebrated artist, Fitri Graham. This survey honours the life, oeuvre and cultural legacy of Graham – a legacy which has not only shaped the visual arts as we know it today, but, as this exhibition reveals, one which has coloured so many of our memories.
Fitri Jane Graham (1922-1980) was an abstract painter whose exhibition Melancholia (1949) was ill-received by just about everyone. Art critics described it as “dismal”, “lifeless” and “depressingly bad”; the public was overwhelmingly underwhelmed; and Graham’s own mother suddenly, and without discussion, moved cities two days after the exhibition’s opening. Haunted by her exhibition’s “failure”, Graham never touched a paintbrush again.
However, Melancholia hadn’t been as unappreciated as Graham had perceived – imitations began appearing in the backgrounds of school, family and graduation portrait photography and, by the 1970s, had become the dominant backdrop. Realising this, Graham took legal action in 1974 against fourteen photography companies including Rise ‘n’ Smiles and Cherished Memories Photo Studio. Devastatingly, Graham lost.
To do Graham and her story justice, this long awaited retrospective features many of the original Melancholia watercolour studies and oil paintings, notably Melancholia IV, recently rediscovered down the back of a rental property pantry. Also on view are archives and artefacts from private collections and the Fitri Graham Foundation (and Estate) including exhibition reviews from 1949 and Graham’s belongings and diaries.
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NEITHER SPECTACULARLY SUCCESSFUL, NOR A SPECTACULAR FAILURE
Solo exhibition curated by Jane Gillespie, Sebastian Henry-Jones, Harriet Reid and An Sheng.
Opening Wednesday 19 October 2016, 6-8pm
Building 23, Sydney College of the Arts, Lilyfield, Sydney, Australia
Exhibition continues until 24 October
www.facebook.com/events/346214562436827/
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HEIRLOOMS: FROM THE LAWRENCE FAMILY COLLECTION (ON SALE NOW! HURRY WHILE STOCKS LAST!)
Last year my relatives contacted Christie’s in hope they would auction our family heirlooms. Disappointingly, Christie’s was unavailable and the fire sale we had instead did not yield enough to fund our bi-annual family holiday to Albury-Wodonga (planned for November 2016). It’s not too late to support this excellent cause – The Heirlooms will be on display and for sale again soon!
LOST + FOUND
Featuring Ida Lawrence & Penelope Hoess
Opening Monday 19 September 2016, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues until 29 October 2016 in Streetspace (viewable 24/7) and
the Curiosity Cabinet (viewable Mon-Fri: 4pm-Midnight, Sat: 2pm-Midnight, Sun: 2pm-10pm)
The Bearded Tit,183 Regent Street, Redfern, Sydney
thebeardedtit.com/art-1/
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FAILED RESTORATIONS
Full of confidence – and with the best of intentions – Ida Lawrence took to the streets (alone) with the aim of restoring the urban landscape to its former glory… but with very little knowledge of how that should look…
Solo exhibition of work I first attempted in Japan to be shown in Adelaide! Another first!
Opening Wednesday 6 July, 5:30pm
FELTspace, 12 Compton St, Adelaide
Exhibition continues until 23 July 2016
www.feltspace.org
www.facebook.com/events/213790929019668/
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REC ROOM
I will have some paintings based on board games, dart boards and sports fields in this group show curated by Hana Hoogedeure. Come play!
Opening Thursday 12 May 2016, 6-8pm
Interlude Gallery, Shop 11/131-145 Glebe Point Rd, Sydney
Exhibition continues until 28 May
www.interludegallery.com/news.html
www.facebook.com/events/1296627633684018/?active_tab=highlights
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PALE IMITATIONS
An historic collection of cultural artefacts — the common tea towel, the CHUX® wipe,
the shower curtain (Motif #7) — and the paintings, it is said, that inspired them.
Opening Saturday 30 April, 6-8pm
ArticulateUpstairs, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt
Exhibition runs 22 April – 8 May 2016
Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 11am-5pm
articulateupstairs.blogspot.com.au
www.facebook.com/events/191946957858612/
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BONNIESONGS MUSIC VIDEO LAUNCH
Been working with Bonnie Stewart on a stop motion video clip for Bonniesongs’ Dinogon.
To be released into the wild/Surry Hills on 1 April!
www.facebook.com/events/1674436262844818/
Listen here and imagine here in the meantime: soundcloud.com/bonniesongs
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DANCING FISH FLAKES AND OTHER HALLUCINATIONS
踊るカツオ節と幻覚
An exhibition of observations and imaginings from my trip to Japan and residency at Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio.
Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio Exhibition Space
20-23 November 2015, 10am-5pm
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RESIDENCY AT SAPPORO TENJINYAMA ART STUDIO
I have lots of woollen things ready for this one month residency in Tenjinyama Park, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Yay!
October-November 2015
tenjinyamastudio.jp/en/
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HEADGEAR 5 / MILS’S 6TH BIRTHDAY
I have collaborated with Hana Hoogedeure on a work for MILS Gallery’s annual exhibition of masks, Headgear. This year the masked characters are from Macbeth – don’t miss the performances on opening night!
Opening Friday 10 July 2015, 6-9pm
MILS Gallery, 15 Randle St Surry Hills
Continues until 25 July
www.facebook.com/events/1440974122876437/
www.milsgallery.com/HEADGEAR-5
Image: Mask by Adriano Rosselli
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QUIET SUBVERSIONS Closing Feast
Saturday 27 June 2015, 3-5pm
Interlude Gallery, Shop 11/131-145 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
In celebration of a successful exhibition, Arthur Parker will be cooking afternoon tea for patrons, critics, friends, relatives, neighbours, former colleagues and other guests. Everyone is welcome! Arthur will be serving a traditional hi-vis meal: sausage and tomato sauce on white bread, with cake to cleanse the palate. Interlude Gallery will be kindly catering for vegetarians and people who appreciate nutrients in their diet.
www.facebook.com/events/1604922009756897/
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Art For Lifehouse Silent Auction
Thursday 25 June 2015, 6-9pm
The LivingRoom at the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse
119-143 Missenden Rd, Camperdown
It is a pleasure to be a part of this fundraiser for The Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, a world-class integrated cancer treatment centre. I have donated a work, Sukajadi IV for the silent auction. Looking forward to this event, hope to see you there!
Tickets $20
RSVP via email events@lifehouse.org.au
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Quiet Subversions: Paintings by Arthur Parker
This fascinating retrospective showcases the oeuvre of self-taught Sydney artist, Arthur Parker. Parker began his career as a house painter, went on to contractual graffiti-buffing work for the council, then, after an epiphany, turned his focus to the visual arts. This exhibition features select documentation of Parker’s early site-specific paintings, and recent developments of his current passion: still life painting.
I am putting on this exhibition, and have been working closely with Arthur since the beginning of 2014. He’s quite a character! Check out his biography: arthurparkerart.wordpress.com/about
Opening Thursday 18 June, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs 18-27 June 2015
Interlude Gallery, Shop 11/131-145 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
www.interludegallery.com
www.facebook.com/events/1593705467545181/
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HEIRLOOMS:
From The Lawrence Family Collection
Recently, it became necessary that I gather together the family heirlooms. At different times, these precious objects belonged to my great-grandmother Ethel, Third-Cousin-Twice-Removed Frank, Uncle Derek and, scandalously, Aunty Marjorie. Please note all items are for sale. Proceeds go towards the Lawrence family’s 2016 holiday fund to Albury-Wodonga, and the purchasing of a new cheese grater and wireless.
I’ve gone to a lot of trouble negotiating with various relatives in order to exhibit these heirlooms. I hope you can join me in celebrating my family’s knack for hoarding:
Opening Thursday 11 June 2015, 6-8pm
Gaffa Gallery, 281 Clarence Street, Sydney
Exhibition runs 11-22 June
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IMAGINATIVE HISTORIES
Free kids’ sculpture and storytelling workshop
Young artist-archeologists (ages 8-12) are invited to join artist Ida Lawrence, on a creative ‘archeological dig’ of Leichhardt Town Hall. Ida is one of Leichhardt Council’s four Artists in Residence, and will lead participants on a playful sculpture and storytelling workshop: participants will ‘discover’ (ie. create) imaginative sculptural ‘artefacts’ and reveal their curious functions and histories.
Workshop date: Saturday 6 June 2015, 2pm – 4.30pm
To Book: Contact Ida on ida.r.lawrence@gmail.com by Monday 1 June.
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S.A.M.P.L.E.
Some Artists Making Performance Laboratory Experiments
Saturday 23 May 2015, 6pm
Arthur Parker and I have paintings in this art exhibition/performance night.
www.facebook.com/events/1595925757346092/
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ASYIK For Kids Festival
Leichhardt Town Hall, Saturday 2 May 2015, 10:30am – 2pm
Come to Leichhardt Town Hall this Saturday for a celebration of Indonesia’s arts and cultures. It’s being put on by Suara Indonesia Dance Group, who I’ve had the pleasure of dancing with since 2008. It will be colourful, sequinned, tasty, rhythmic, dancey, arty, crafty. I’ll be helping running the arts and crafts activities on the day – we’ll be making wayang, puppets. You can BYO kid, borrow someone else’s, or bring yourself and other grown ups. ASYIK!
http://suaraindonesiadance.com.au/page/ASYIK_Kids_Festival_2015
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LOST: Leichhardt Open Studio Trail
14 March – 15 March 2015, 10am – 4pm
The Demountable, 9 Marion Street, Leichhardt
My studio – The Demountable – will be open over the weekend for LOST. Come visit!
More about LOST: www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/Community/Arts-and-Culture/Projects/LOST
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COOL COMBO
Curated by Adriano Rosselli
A collection of shields from Papua New Guinea alongside contemporary art work by:
Marissa Bagley, Eko Bambang Wisnu, Simone Griffin, H.J. Huwman, Kaspar Kägi, Vladimir Kravchenko, Ida Lawrence, Adriano Rosselli, Roman Stachurski, Nicole Toms, Harry Townsend,
Andy Townsend & Suzie Bleach, Eva Troyeur-Gibson
Opening Friday 13 March, 6pm – 8pm
Nishi Gallery, 17 Kendall Lane, NewActon, ACT
14 March – 29 March 2015
Mils Gallery
Art, Not Apart Festival
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RESIDENCY AT THE DEMOUNTABLE
I have been selected as one of four artists to undertake a residency with Leichhardt Council’s The Demountable Subsidised Studio Space Program.
Very exciting.
January – August 2015.
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AIR
Bridie Gillman, Eko Bambang Wisnu, Ida Lawrence
AIR presents three artists’ responses to their personal experiences between Indonesia and Australia. ‘Air’, as well as the English word for the substance we breathe, is the Indonesian word for ‘water’, highlighting the shared and often contentious air and water between the two countries.
Opening Wednesday 2 April 2014, 6pm – 8pm
107projects
107 Redfern Street, Redfern
Tea and Talk with the artists Sunday 13 April, 3pm
Exhibition closes Sunday 13 April
Open Thursday to Sunday 12noon – 5pm
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Read Fleur MacDonald’s little write up of my solo exhibition bloody woop woop / (n)desa: stories from Barmedman, Kliwonan and between on her blog SIX TO EIGHT. It’s nice.
http://www.sixtoeight.net/2013/03/mils-gallery-ida-lawrence.html






























