Alice Has Her Cake - portrait still life Ed. 1 of 6

I guess when I really think about it, Alice is a version of me, and probably lots of you too. It’s the version I’m becoming. The curious, feisty woman who doesn’t care so much about berating her aging body, and eats the yummy cake without the side serve of guilt trip. Without the constant agony of imagining what other people think of her. Shove that cake in girlfriend. Life is too short to not love these wonderful jiggly vehicles we’ve rented to zip around Earth in.

Alice is no longer a carefully placed ornament or bauble amongst the still life; she is very much alive and embodying her wild feminine energy. Wind-swept, messy and (gasp) actually eating the cake in front of her, she throws her days of counting calories to the wind. We catch her in a moment in time when she’s chosen herself; chosen to rise above the limiting narratives given to her…decided that she can jolly well have her cake and eat it too. Let’s enjoy the butterflies that urge transformation, and the rabbit - not just a character in Wonderland, but a powerful symbol of fertility and rebirth for our peri menopausal heroine ‘

LIMITED EDITION Printed on Canson Platine fine art cotton rag (coated), 310gsm. Prices are for unframed artwork

160x120cm Edition of 1 +1AP
$4200

140x105cm, Edition of 3 +1AP
$2900

120x90cm, Edition of 6 +1AP
$1900

90x67cm, Edition of 8 +1AP
$950

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Lauren Starr is an Australian photo-media artist creating narrative works at the intersection of myth, history, and land. Her practice centres on women’s lived and inherited experiences, drawing on fairytales, colonial histories, and personal ancestry to reimagine familiar stories through a contemporary lens.

Working with staged photography and digital compositing, Starr constructs painterly tableaux that sit between reality and myth. Her images often incorporate photographed fragments of her own paintings and textures, creating layered works that feel both symbolic and embodied.

Recent works explore themes of re-wilding, instinct, and the quiet reclamation of power, particularly through reimagined female archetypes and narratives from the Victorian goldfields.

Starr is a finalist in the 2026 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize and has been recognised through the Olive Cotton Award and Head On Photo Awards. She is the recipient of the Bluethumb Art Prize (Photography + Grand Prize, 2022), and her work is held in public collections including Parliament House Melbourne and Bendigo Art Gallery.