Janet Laurence

Janet Laurence’s work stands in the liminal space of architecture and art, and nature and building. It engages on multiple planes, of intellectual, aesthetic, and haptic experiences. It explores nature at its most fundamental levels. It is intensely material, yet it can be illusionary and referential. It is documentary, telling of history and prompting memory, yet immediate in being phenomenological and encompassing. It is involved with rites of passage and the experiences of the human body. It evolves through time as well as space. The subtle encounters Laurence offers produce binding threads knitting the thoughts and the body to place.

Laurence’s art celebrates the beauty and tragedy of the natural world in its intersection with the man-made through artist + environment interactions. It is an art of critique of man’s acts, the retrieval of memory, and a healing collaboration with the physical world. It is an optimistic art with faith in the generative powers of redemption, and the ability of art to mend.

— Jennifer Taylor 2000