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                    Lauren Dunn

                    2021: Round 1

                    Neon shopfront interior
                    Lauren Dunn is a multi-disciplinary artist living and practicing on Wurundjeri country Melbourne.

                    ​Lauren graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) with a BA in Fine Art Honours in 2018. Lauren has participated in several group and solo exhibitions locally and internationally. Her work is held in various private and public collections. She is also the founder of Melbourne based artist collective Image Collective.

                    While predominantly working with photography Lauren also uses sculpture, neon and video as a means of twisting the codes of the many images we consume. As an active participant in post-photographic discourse she believes the many images we encounter on a daily basis are a critical indicator of broader political and social issues. With an interest in popular consumption trends and their associated images she utilises her practice to understand and question the power structures influencing our consumer desires, our personal ethics and the broader impact of commodity culture. 

                    Overheard Overground

                    Overhead Overground is a playful but political suite of neon text works, snippets of overheard conversations relating to current consumption trends.

                    Scattered strategically throughout high foot traffic areas in Melbourne’s CBD installed in the windows of ground level vacant shopfronts the work will be visible by day and night.

                    The pulsating neon and colour-soaked empty shop backdrop draws its viewer into a deep history of the analogue transaction of commercial exchange and desire but the content is current and interrogates our fast-paced relationship to the digital age of consumption.

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