Memento Mori - Yorick Ed. 3 of 8

A true statement piece for modern or classic home. Printed by a master printer, this large size is available in only a very limited edition.

Part of my collection 'Memento Mori,' which is Latin for remember you die. It is a call to action to prioritise life and live each day to the fullest. This picture is inspired by my love of Shakespeare (hence the title) and a celebration of this hand crafted skull. The roses were overgrown in my mother's garden and I just that death and beauty belonged together in this piece. I created a scene with a pool, a black sheet and floated the roses and skull within.

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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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