Bonnie Lane

Artist Statement

“My practice is concerned with the human condition, explored through internal worlds exposing raw human emotions. Through surreal and fantasy elements my artworks aim to achieve something seemingly impossible within the realms of reality. Reflecting upon contemporary society and generation Y culture my works are an escape from ‘reality’ and express a longing for something greater.” Bonnie Lane is a young emerging artist currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Lanes practice encompasses installation, text, light, collage, sound and video, resulting multi-sensory and experiential artworks. Lane completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2007 and has since been highly active in exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions throughout Melbourne in various artist run spaces, public galleries and alternative sites for exhibition. Lane has been awarded many prestigious awards in the past few years including The 2008 Moreland Sculpture Show Award for Ephemeral Art, for outdoor installation “All You Need” at Bridges reserve, Coburg. Lane was one of the 19 Finalists in the 2007 Wallara Traveling Scholarship Exhibition at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, and was awarded the National Gallery Women’s Association Undergraduate Award at the VCA School of art Graduate Show and the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival Award for Visual Arts for group exhibition “PARKED!!” at Collingwood Underground Arts Park. Lane is one of the finalists in this years “Churchie Award” for emerging artists in Brisbane and was recently exhibited at the NEXT Art Fair: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Chicago, USA, where she was represented by Uber Gallery. Lane will then be traveling to Berlin in May 2009 to pursue research into public art and aims to produce artworks at alternative sites to galleries. Lane will also be exhibiting in group-show "Interiors" curated by Simon Gregg at Uber Gallery, Melbourne in November 2009.

Art Forms

Conceptual
2 D (painting/printmaking/drawing/illustration/cartoons)
Multimedia /hybrid
3 D (sculpture/installation/public art)

Address

Victoria
Australia

Web Site

http://www.myartspace.com/bonnielane

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