An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree with fencing around it. An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree with fencing around it. An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree with fencing around it. An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree w… — artist's signature An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree with fenci… — edge view
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An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree with fencing around it.
An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree with fencing around it.
An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree with fencing around it.
An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree w… — artist's signature
An astronaut stands on a barren landscape with a pile of bones nearby. In the distance is a lone tree with fenci… — edge view
Photography by Lauren Starr 122 Artworks Sold

Syntax Error 2021 Ed. 1 of 8

Photograph, Paper (Requires Framing)

90cm (W) x 65cm (H) x 0.2cm (D)

Signed Certificate of Authenticity
A$790

Artwork Description

Syntax is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. This art work is all about how we got it wrong. It's a futuristic scene where a traveller has arrived on Earth to find it barren and deserted. Was is climate change? War? Yet hope remains in the figure of the lone tree. Someone has fenced it off in an act of protection and love. There's always time to change the road you're on.

Part of a recent exhibition: 'Space'

Fun fact - this was photographed out the front of my house, where they' are building a playground. The piles of dirt made for an excellent space scene.

Limited Edition artwork printed by a master printer.

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
@laurenstarrartist

Commissions
Lauren's studio is in Bendigo VIC