Info: Lauren Brincat is an artist navigating the mediums of performance and sculpture. In 2004, she graduated with First Class Honours from Sydney College of Arts in Painting, and received her Masters in 2006. Primarily a performance artist Lauren Brincat also maintains a sculptural practice that is concerned with tactile, audible and familiar objects. Brincat has developed a relationship with the camera, performing for the audience via the screen. The themes of these performances are the themes of everyday life, carried out often using ready-mades. The drum kit has been a focus over the last few years. Brincat’s concern with the drum kit has allowed her to take the objects into many various forms within her work. It has been treated as a shrine, a corpse, a costume and a target. Each time it readdresses the objects individual orientations. The work is progressively exploring this object of popular culture, using the drum kit as a metaphor for the crossovers between Rock’n’Roll, and painting. Both Rock’n’Roll and painting are constantly being referred to as dead, and each constantly reinvents itself. Her work is interested but not exclusive to this, as her current projects are addressing grander scales and more public domains. Brincat is currently practicing in New York and over the next twelve months she plans to spend her time between New York, Tokyo and Berlin. In 2008 she won the Redlands Westpac Art Prize. Her work was shown in a group show called ‘Make a Scene’ at the Anna Schwartz Sydney Gallery in Sydney, as well as the MONA FOMA festival in Hobart. She has taken part in the 2009 ‘Splendid’ residency at Lismore Regional Gallery and is the recipient of the 2009 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship.

Exhibition

2006

The Director’s Choice Show, ‘The Big Show’ Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney

2005

Postgraduate Degree show, Sydney College of the Arts

Publication, ‘Space3 An Australian Independent Creative Network’

Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship, Finalist exhibition, Artspace Sydney

‘Soft Stack, Round Records’, Pigeon Ground Public, Sydney

2004

‘Hold the pickle, lettuce has a new meaning’ Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney

2003

‘What the World Needs Now 2’, Phatspace, Sydney

‘An Intimate Affaire’ couples show, Phatspace, Sydney

2001

Bachelor Degree show, Sydney College of the Arts. <br>‘Parallel Structures’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne

2003

‘Will and Luca’ Two Step Gallery, Sydney

2006

Publication, ‘Runway’ issue 7 “Copy’

Alternative, free, project space. Henderson Rd, Alexandria

Co-Founder and Director of ‘The Rehearsal Room’, Sydney

Curated ‘The Tonight Show’ opening show, ‘The Rehearsal Room’, Sydney

2007

‘Audio Vision’ Downtown Artspace Adelaide

‘The Whole Kit and Caboodle’ Sherman Galleries Art Box Sydney

‘Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship, Finalist exhibition, Artspace Sydney

2008

‘Live When I’m Alive, Sleep when I’m Dead’ Firstdraft Gallery Sydney

‘By George’ Festival Sydney & ‘ Performance for the Camera ‘Firstdraft Gallery Sydney

‘Redlands Westpac Art Prize’ Sydney

‘Performance for the Camera' Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney

2009

‘Pushme Pullyou’ Peloton, Sydney

‘Game is Good’ Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney

Make a Scene’ Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney

‘Liquid Architecture’ CarriageWorks, Sydney

Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney

2004

Honours Degree show, Sydney College of the Arts

2009

‘Versus’ Kings Ari Melbourne

‘I am the Message’ Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore

Publication Concrete Playground ‘Conspirators’

‘The one after 09’ Peloton Gallery Sydney

2010

MONA FOMA Festival of Music and Art. Curated by Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes Tasmania

Award

2005

University Postgraduate Award University of Sydney

2008

Konica Minolta Emerging Artist Prize, Redland Mosman Art Prize, Emerging Artist recipient Sydney

2009

Australian Arts Council Grant – Emerging ‘New Work’ Sydney

Residency with Lismore Regional Gallery ‘Splendid’ Arts Lab Lismore

‘Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship', Artspace, Sydney Sydney

Education

None

Master of Visual Arts College of the Arts, University of Sydney

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honors 1st class) College of the Arts, University of Sydney