Lauren Burrow

Lauren Burrow is an artist and educator who is a current Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship recipient and a candidate in the PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, for her research Private property is an environmental threat. Through sculpture and installation, Burrow uses scrap materials including glass, plastic, and water to investigate flows between the urban and the rural, the individual and the collective, the social and the ecological. Burrow graduated with a Masters of Fine Art (Sculpture) from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York, in 2019. She has held exhibitions at PLI, Munich (2022), Holden Garage, Berlin (2021), and TCB Art Inc, Melbourne (2019) and her work has been included in group exhibitions at LaTrobe Art Institute (2023), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (2023), the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2021), and Hessel Museum of Art, New York (2021).

Caitlin and Lauren taught a class together on Documenta 15, curated by the Indonesian art collective ruangrupa and focussed on collective art practices from the Global South. Caitlin visited the exhibition in its first week open to the public and curated a path through the exhibition day-by-day and shared it with VCA students each evening. Caitlin also arranged for special guests Lars Bang Larsen and Marwa Arsanios involved in the exhibition to contribute. Lauren facilitated the in-person digestion of Caitlin’s classes in Naarm/Melbourne.