Lori spent her early childhood on her family's farm at Yilliminning in the wheatbelt of Western Australia, and her early adult life jillarooing on the cattle station of her husband’s family, Wyloo, in the Pilbara, Western Australia. She now farms with her husband on their sustainable agricultural farming property in the south west of Western Australia, Boyup Brook, where her studio is located.

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Lori is a nationally recognised artist, having been shortlisted for prestigious awards such as the Salon De REfuse, Portia Geach Memorial Award, Dobell Drawing Prize and The Lester Prize for Portraiture. In 2021, she won the $50,000 Kilgour Art Prize at Newcastle Art Gallery & the Royal Show Landscape Award, WA 2022. Lori has held 29 solo exhibitions, hung in more than 50 group shows and shortlisted for over 90 awards.

​“My art practice is an exploration of myself, my identity and placement within my family’s multifaceted history. It is illustrated directly from my responses to, and relationship with our landscape. Our family have had unbroken tenure with the Australian landscape since first settlement and it is this long generational connection and lived experiences in this environment that I draw from. I combine both the European and indigenous lineages of my family heritage to express ideas about identity and belonging, while exploring the complex history which is embedded in the remote region where I live.

The botanical elements in my work are used as a reflection of personal transformations. I link key positive personality traits of people with ecological characteristics of botanicals to create a distinctive language of flowers as a way of dually expressing inner strengths and virtues and reconnecting ourselves with country. They seek to create narratives around our cultural identity and role within our natural world.