Laurel McKenzie

Laurel McKenzie (Australia) has exhibited widely over a four-decade timespan, with solo exhibitions, numerous group exhibitions within Australia and internationally. Her work is represented in public and private collections in Australia and overseas. Using mixed media and installation, she creates work with a feminist focus. A current PhD candidate at James Cook University, she is conducting practice-led research which investigates the persistence of stereotypes in the representation of women in contemporary visual art and popular culture. Her practice acknowledges the role that art has played in the objectification of women and employs mediated representations of women as critique. Objectifying imagery is deployed back on itself–underlining to undermine.