A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eggs and macar… A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eggs and macar… A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eggs and macar… A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table wit… — artist's signature A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eg… — edge view A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eggs … — detail A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blu… — shown hanging
A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eggs and macar…
A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eggs and macar…
A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eggs and macar…
A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table wit… — artist's signature
A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eg… — edge view
A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blue eggs … — detail
A woman wears a yellow blindfold and misses her cup when pouring the tea. She sits at a small table with blu… — shown hanging
Photography by Lauren Starr 122 Artworks Sold

Blue Eggs for Breakfast Ed. 1 of 12

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Artwork Description

In Blue Eggs for Breakfast, the morning table becomes a small, enchanted threshold — a place where intuition rises before reason has a chance to wake. A young woman sits blindfolded, not in fear, but in quiet defiance of the need to see everything clearly. She pours her tea by instinct, guided by muscle memory and a trust that steadiness can exist even in uncertainty.

Around her, irises bloom like watchful companions, their petals opening in soft yellows as if responding to her inner light rather than the sun. Scattered across the table, the blue eggs act as gentle provocations — symbols of things not yet known, possibilities still uncracked, truths waiting for the willing.

This work leans into the surreal tenderness of ritual: how we nourish ourselves when we’re unsure, how we keep moving even when the path ahead is obscured. It suggests that sometimes the deepest knowing comes not from what we see, but from what we feel our way toward — slowly, instinctively, one quiet morning gesture at a time.

Artist Bio
Photo of Lauren Starr
Lauren Starr 142 artworks | 83 Sold

Lauren Starr is an Australian photo-media artist whose work explores women’s stories through history, folklore, fairytale, and the Australian landscape. Drawing on colonial histories, personal ancestry, and mythic archetypes, she creates narrative works that reimagine the past through a contemporary lens.

Working with staged photography, painterly textures, and digital compositing, Starr constructs richly layered images that sit between reality and myth. Her practice is particularly concerned with memory, inheritance, belonging, and the ways women’s lives become embedded within landscape.

Recent bodies of work have explored female narratives from the Victorian goldfields, acts of re-wilding and reclamation, and the enduring relationship between women, story, and place.

Starr is the recipient of the 2022 Bluethumb Art Prize (Photography Category and Grand Prize). Her work has been acquired by Parliament House Melbourne and Bendigo Art Gallery, and has been recognised through the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Ravenswood Women's Prize, Olive Cotton Award, Head On Photo Awards, and other national exhibitions.

www.laurenstarr.com.au
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Lauren's studio is in Bendigo VIC