''My art practice is an exploration of myself, my identity and placement within my family’s multifaceted

history. It is illustrated directly from lived experiences on country and my responses to, and relationship with our landscape. Matrilineal memories within my shared European and indigenous histories in the Australian landscape, engages commentary around the simultaneously constructive/destructive relationship between wo(man) and land especially in the regenerative context.

The botanical elements in my work are used as a reflection of personal transformations. Key personality traits of people interface with ecological botanicals characteristics to form a distinctive 'language of flowers'. They also seek to express inner virtues/strengths and create a narrative around our cultural identity and role within our natural world. Recent workings of my Nature-Culture concepts include installations of found flora, fauna and composite raw materials. Repurposing natural forms found on my farm bushland aids in creating contemporary depth to painted themes & explores concept of placement : family culture ‘who am I? who has shaped me?’ and the environmental imprinting influencing bearing and identity''. LP

Lori is a nationally recognised artist, having held 30 solo exhibitions and shortlisted for 105 awards. Notably she won the Portia Geach Prize 2024, the 2nd West Australian artist to do so in 60 years. She has also won Stanthorpe Prize 2024: Royal Show Landscape award 2022; Kilgour Art Prize 2021; Toni Fini Black Swan Portraiture 2018; The Jury Prize 2022; Hamersley Iron Landscape awards 4 years running 1998 - 2001. She has been a finalist in - Dobell Drawing Prize; Salon De Refuse; Portia Geach Memorial Award; The Alice Prize; Len Fox Award.