Copyright Michel Lawrence 2011
Brett Whiteley’s iconic Sydney Harbour paintings are among three chosen by Wendy Whiteley to feature in a release of new fine art reproductions on The Stock Rooms website. The new site, which launched on December 3, features artworks from leading … Continue reading
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Michel Lawrence and Peter Lamont have established The Stock Rooms to sell and promote Australian art online. The new website features a large inventory of art from a broad selection of artists from across Australia. Michel and Peter are photographing … Continue reading
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Michel Lawrence has photographed a large number of veteran, vintage and classic Harley Davidson and Indian motorcycles as part of a long-term personal project. The bikes themselves have their own histories and vary between full restorations and totally original with … Continue reading
© 2011 Michel. All rights reserved.
India is an extraordinary sensory experience. Going there for the exhibition of All of Us and then for the return exhibition, Indian Aussies, gave me a great opportunity to go over to the old city as well as the new. … Continue reading
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Michel Lawrence was commissioned by The Australian Foreign Affairs Department to produce a second travelling exhibition for The Australian High Commission in Delhi in 2010. This followed the All of Us travelling exhibition to India in 2009. The result: 85 … Continue reading
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Michel Lawrence’s ‘All of Us’ project began as a statement about racism and an attempt to demonstrate what multiculturalism really meant to Australians. Beginning with a large scale exhibition installed on the exterior walls of the CrossBar building in Melbourne’s Federation … Continue reading
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Michel Lawrence’s ‘Sign Language‘ is a quirky take on visual communications. Signs and directions which, while common place in their home countries, become the inspiration for a different point of view: everything from a billboard on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard to … Continue reading
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Michel Lawrence’s ‘Funny Business’ includes portraits of singers, musicians, comedians and actors. During the late 1970s and 1980s I produced a large body of work for record companies and music promoters but most especially for John Pinder’s game- changing comic venue … Continue reading
Michel Lawrence photographed Sid Nolan with a Ned Kelly mask.
“You can have wonderful fun, whether you want to treat these photographs as slightly satirical or evidence for the analyst.” Elwyn Lynn, The Weekend Australian Michel Lawrence’s portrait of Sid Nolan as Ned Kelly is just one of 100 of Australia’s … Continue reading