Lorenna Caron
Southern Tablelands Arts
Lorenna Caron (b. Paris, France, 1999) is an emerging multidisciplinary artist working on unceded Gundungarra land. Growing up in regional NSW, Lorenna experienced both the challenges and benefits of being an artist in a rural community. In 2016 she won the Goulburn Regional Art Award in the Secondary School category. In the same year, she undertook the HSC Intensive Studio Practice at the National Art School specialising in painting.
She has exhibited in various local art shows in the Southern Highlands and Tableands region, and sold her work in the Art in the Woolshed Auction raising funds for the Country Education Foundation of Australia. She worked as a gallery assistant at the Arthead Gallery and Photographic Studio in Moss Vale in 2018. In 2020, Lorenna had her first solo exhibition First Impressions, at Smiths Alternative in Canberra. She completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Australian National University School of Art and Design in 2023, and won the Tributary Projects Exhibition Award as part of the 2023 Emerging Artists Support Scheme.
Since graduating, she has been developing her art in secrecy, exploring and deepening her visual language through different mediums and fostering collaborative relationships. She exhibited in the group show ‘Soft Launch’ at Tributary Projects, Canberra, in 2024.
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Lorenna’s Creative Work
Artwork description
licorice pizza post-japan full cream decaf latte, 2024, Coloured pencil on paper
tree incense karen dalton, 2024, watercolour on paper
burnt a hole in my pants i had too much fun to notice, 2024, oil pastel on paper
children terrorizing baby ducks by the pond, 2024, gel pen, felt-tip marker, coloured pencil on paper
Artist Statement
During my time undertaking the Horizons mentorship program, I have been working on reclaiming the act of creating as a form of play and conversation by sitting with a close long term friend and collaborator of mine to create works of art together. By doing this, I have discovered it has reduced the pressure of refining a final product, and allows me to focus purely on the process of the creation of the work with curiosity and openness. I also aim for this practice to be an opportunity to reflect on how connection to oneself and others has changed alongside a new technological age, where rates of loneliness in young people have skyrocketed in my generation, despite being better equipped to stay connected to others than ever before.