City in the Sun Exhibition

The Museum of Brisbane commissioned three painting for their major 2021 exhibition City in the Sun. Exhibition text from Museum of Brisbane: City in the Sun uncovers and reimagines Brisbane’s subtropical image. Showcasing large-scale new contemporary artworks...

Soft Skeletons Text
Soft Skeletons Text

Continuing Laura’s dedication to ferns as a painterly muse, Soft Skeletons, presents a body of work enamoured with the dichotomy of strength and delicacy.Created in her home studio after field trips and research, the paintings communicate the grandeur of the...

Grotesque Grotto Text
Grotesque Grotto Text

Grotesque Grotto offers a contemporary response to the 18th century Bristish fern craze, Pteridomania. The works pair Australian rain forest settings, resplendent with historically prized plant specimens, with the architectural trends and innovations that were...

Fern Clouds Text
Fern Clouds Text

Fern Clouds - Sophie Gannon Gallery 24 May 2022 - 11th June 2022 *A collection of landscape paintings studying backlit ferns on the hillsides around Ballunjui Falls (Lamington National Park), framed as individual, light filled grottos.The works explore the tension...

grotesque, grotto’s, caves and sea shells
grotesque, grotto’s, caves and sea shells

Image Scrapbook: Grottos Jan 2021Finding influences that informed the fashion of populating glasshouses + conservatories with artificial grottosThe term and style 'grotesque' became popular in Europe around the 16th century after the accidental discovery of Emperor...

Pteridomania Series Text
Pteridomania Series Text

Background The ‘Pteridomania’ series began as a response to the early 2020 Australian bushfires. As whole ecosystems burn, will the landscapes we once previously enjoyed so freely become rare and unusual? Could the pockets of remaining natural splendor take on a...

Glasshouse Sketches
Glasshouse Sketches

Glasshouse sketches April 2020 . These sketches are predominately based on images from the glasshouses at Kew Gardens London, (formally Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London). They helped inform some of the frame designs of the Pteridomania series, continuing the...