Lauren Brincat (Western Sydney, Australia 1980) working with performance, video, installation and sculpture to explore movement, music, and rhythm. She often creates site responsive work that probes historical ruptures and failures of language, integrating local communities while exploring non-verbal modes of expression through the use of sound sculptures and performance instruments.
In Brincat’s videos, she often performs in relative solitude. In such works, she pushes her physical and cognitive limits, following rule-based actions. Her ‘walking pieces’ occur in vastly different contexts, from empty fields, to busy urban sites, and the ocean. Other video works take the form of documented and often repetitive actions. Collaboration is an important part of Brincat’s practice; featuring percussionists, architects, scientists, choreographers, equestrian riders and indigenous horse whisperers. Her use of fabric is intended to symbolize social cohesion, akin to a metaphorical social fabric, she experiments with different ways it interacts with body, space, and gender.
2006 Masters of Visual Arts, College of the Arts, University of Sydney 2003 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honours 1st class, College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
2024 upcoming: ‘When Do I Breathe’ commissioned by Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct and supported by Transport for NSW’s Safer Cities program.
‘The Shell, A Ghost, The Host & The Lyrebird’ by Marina Mascarell & Sydney Dance Company.
Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, Spain (Ascent triple bill) 14 – 16 March.
Royal Opera House, London, UK (Ascent triple bill) 25 – 28 March.
Mike Parr, Portrait of Marina Abramović (2024) performed by Mike Parr, Gotaro Uematsu, Zan Wimbley, Timothy Vernon Moore, Rebecca Anne Khoury & Lauren Brincat, Adelaide Festival & Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI).
In conversation with JD Reforma : Bondi Pavilion Gallery Bondi Pavilion.
In 2023 Brincat worked in collaboration with Sydney Dance Company on ‘The Shell, A Host, The Ghost & The Lyrebird’ .’
In 2023 and 2022, Brincat showcased ‘Tutti Presto fff’ at the Sydney Opera House , as well as a solo exhibition ‘Women with Fringes etc.’ at Anna Schwartz Gallery.
In 2021, Brincat was included in the TarraWarra Biennial: ‘Slow Moving Waters’ and in 2020 worked with the Kaldor Public Art Project 36: ‘do it (Australia)’.
In 2019 projects : The Plant Library is co-commissioned by the MCA’s C3West program and Landcom. As well as ‘Other Tempo’, co-commissioned by Carriageworks and Performance Space for Liveworks Festival.
In 2016, Brincat presented ‘Salt Lines: Play It As It Sounds, Performance Instruments’, at Carriageworks as part of the Biennale of Sydney. Brincat’s works are represented in major collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Chartwell Collection, Auckland.
Earlier works include : No Performance Today (with Bree van Reyk and the NSW Police Marching Band) as part of Sonic Social; Museum of Contemporary Art (2014) and Performance Space (2015); It’s not the End of the World, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (2013); Shoot From the Hip, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (2012); Shine on you crazy Diamond, Museum of Old and New Art, MONA FOMA Festival of Music and Art, Hobart (2011). Significant group exhibitions include PP VT (Performance Presence/Video Time), Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide (2015); The space between us: Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2013); Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria (2012); Tinnitus: a symposium on art and rock’n'roll, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University (2012).
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
SCEGGS Redlands Collection, Sydney
Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart
Chartwell Collection, Auckland
Westpac Australia
RESIDENCY/AWARDS
2023 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
2020-2022 Studio residency at The Clothing Store Artist Studios, Carriageworks. Carriageworks is a multi-arts urban cultural precinct located at the former Eveleigh Railway Workshops in Redfern, Sydney, Australia. The Artist Studio Program is a partnership with Transport for NSW, and is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
In 2019 Artspace residency, 2018 Lauren Brincat took a pilgrimage to Joshua Tree Nation Park before heading to Mexico City, Puebla and Oaxaca as apart of Career development grant from the Australia Council of the Arts. 2014 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris AGNSW with support from Culture Fund at Copyright Agency. 2012 Bundanon Trust. Visual Arts Residency, 2011 Artspace, Sydney. 2010 Music Residency with Bree van Reyk, Bundanon Trust. Linnaeus Estate, Byron Bay.
2009 Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship. 2008 Konica Minolta Emerging Artist Prize, Redlands Mosman Art Prize.
Lauren Brincat CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Women with Fringes, Anna Schwartz Gallery
2021 You Me, Here Now with Aileen Sage Architects, Art Space, Sydney
2019 The Plant Library, MCA C3West Projects, Tallawong, NSW
2014 No Performance Today with Bree van Reyk & the NSW Police Marching Band, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2013 It's Not the End of the World, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2012 SHOOT FROM THE HIP, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
2010 Shine on you crazy Diamond, Museum of Old and New Art, MONA FOMA Festival of Music and Art, Hobart Shine on you crazy Diamond, NextWave Festival Federation Square, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Shell, A Ghost, The Host & The Lyrebird Bird : For Sydney Dance Company by choreographer Marina Mascarell : Set and Costumes Lauren Brincat & Leah Giblin
2023 Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes, Heide Main Galleries
2023 Tutti Presto fff , 50th anniversary Sydney Opera House
2022 Tutti Presto fff, Vivid Sydney Sydney Opera House.
2021 The TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia
2019 Terminal, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand, Sydney
Self, Other and the Invisible, Channels Festival, International Biennial of Video Art, Melbourne
Other Tempo, Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks, Sydney,
Play On: The Art of Sport, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
2018 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney,
Rigg Design Prize 2018, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
From Here to There: Australian Art and Walking, Lismore Regional Gallery
Play On: The Art of Sport, Devonport Regional Gallery; UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
2016 Sydney 20th Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks, Sydney,
Molto Echo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Newport
Woollarhra Small Sculpture Prize, Woolahra Council,
2015 LANDSEASKY: revisiting spatiality in video art, tour to Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Performance Presence / Video Time, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Synergy Percussion: 40 under 40, Commissioned project
2014 LANDSEASKY: Revisiting Spatiality on Video Art, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
LANDSEASKY, Seoul Museum of Art
2013 MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Wandering: Moving images from the MCA Collection, Ararat Regional Gallery, and national NETS Touring exhibition
The space between us, Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2013, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney Golden Rough , Alaska Projects, Sydney
Basil Sellers Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Australia
Onside, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2012 Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne
TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia
Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow, Artspace and Museums and Galleries NSW Touring exhibition
Tinnitus: a symposium on art and rock’n'roll, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
2009 Winner Helen Lempriere Travel Scholarship, Artspace Sydney