Still Life - Colourful Flowers Ed. 1 of 9

Recently I became enamoured with Dutch still life, Vanitas and Memento Mori sentiments. This is the fourth dramatic, larger than life piece I’ve created: this time with dark, rich pink, tones.
As well as rich florals, this artwork is thick with Vanitas-style meaning. Butterflies are symbols of transformation, and snails remind us to slow down. Lemons were considered a luxury and many Dutch still life artworks feature half peeled lemons. Fun fact - the little snail came with the flowers I ordered!!

Photographed in my studio and Printed by a master printer, this piece is a talking point for any home.

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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, Olive Cotton Award, Head On Photo Awards, and other national exhibitions.