Ochre Lawson

Ochre Lawson grew up in country Australia, where she roamed the wetlands and hills, drawing and painting the natural landscape from a young age. Her love of the Australian bush led her to become an environmental activist throughout her 20’s, and this time spent protecting native flora and fauna has informed Ochre’s art work ever since. The wilderness is at the heart of everything Ochre creates especially being interested in portraying old growth forest, landscapes and native animals. Ochre strives to travel to untouched wilderness places to record what is increasingly being lost from the world forever.

Ochre completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at National Art School in 2007 and attained a Diploma of Fine Arts at the Southbank Institute of Tafe in 2001. She has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane and Alice Springs and has been awarded sculptural commissions for NSW Transport (2014) and ‘Pamille Berg consulting’ in Canberra (2009).

Ochre has been an artist in residence at the ‘Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiative’ in the Blue Mountains in 2012/2013 and 2014. She has also been a finalist in the Defiance Small Sculpture Prize, the Northbridge Art Prize, the Gosford Regional Gallery Art Prize and the Waverley Woollahra Art Prize and has won awards in different categories for painting, drawing and sculpture.

Ochre teaches painting, drawing and sculpture at the Art Gallery NSW, Artest in Leichardt and Waverley Woollahra Art School in Bondi.