Lauren Clark

Lauren’s work explores themes of place, time, and lived experience through painting and an expanding street art practice. Rooted in drawing, she works across both studio and public settings, incorporating elements of collage, layering, and visual illusion. By merging realism and abstraction, she creates shifting, illusory compositions that blur the boundary between the recognisable and the imagined. She is particularly interested in how environments hold memory and meaning, and how subtle shifts in perception can transform the familiar into something unexpected.

After completing both undergraduate and master’s degrees in fine art, lauren has continued to develop her practice within the local creative community. Taking part in the Scale Up programme with Weston Wallz marked an important step into mural-making, opening up new ways of thinking about scale, surface, and audience. Working on a larger scale has become an exciting direction in her practice, allowing her to explore illusion and distortion in a more playful and immersive way.

Laurens work responds directly to its surroundings, engaging with the textures, histories, and atmosphere of a place. While digital elements occasionally inform her process, the work remains grounded in physical experience and observation. Alongside this, she runs Lolly Illustrations, producing commissions and prints.