Lauren Brincat

Lauren Brincat (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary artist and she works with multiple mediums including sculpture installations, moving image, and performance.^[1] Collaboration with other artists and cross disciplinary practice is a notable feature of her artistic approach. Her installations often encourage audience interaction.^[2]

Brincat's works are held in the multiple institutions including the Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Brincat's work Salt lines: play it as it sounds was installed at the Carriageworks Arts Centre as part of the 2016 Sydney Bienalle.^[3] In 2019 she was co-commissioned by the MCA and Landcom as part of the C3West program to create a living sculpture work titled The Plant Library.^[4]

Brincat graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 2006 with a Masters of Visual Arts.^[1]

Notable works

Solo works

• Hear This, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 2011.^[5]
• Shine on you crazy diamond, Museum of Old and New Art, Festival of Modern Art, Hobart, 2010 & Next Wave Federation Square Festival, Melbourne, 2010.^[6][7]
• Salt Lines: play it as it sounds, Sydney Biennale. Purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2015–16.^[8]
• Walk the Line (companion piece to Salt Lines), Art Gallery of NSW, 2016.^[9]
• The Plant Library, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, 2019.^[4]
• ‘Slow Moving Waters’ at the TarraWarra Biennial, 2021.^[10]
• Women with Fringes etc. exhibition at the Anna Schwartz Gallery, 2022.^[10]

Collaborative works and group shows

• Embodied Acts: Live and Alive (part of) Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2012.^[11]
• The Space Between Us: Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of NSW, 2013^[12]
• Sonic Social, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2014.^[13]
• Other Tempo: Liveworks, Carriageworks, 2019.^[14]
• ‘Tutti Presto fff’ at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Sydney, 2022.^[10]

List of awards

• Australia Council for the Arts Emerging Artists Creative Australia Fellowship grant, 2012–14.^[15]
• Woollahra Small Sculpture prize finalist, 2017 & 2018.^[16][17]