lauren crazybull

Love the little journey to Toronto this painting took me on! Grateful to have been a finalist in the @kingstonprize with 29 other incredible artists and ultra-grateful to @sydney.f.pascal who allowed me to paint her!

My portraiture practice has been a way to combat the idea of “Terra nullius” or “nobody’s land” and to show the presence of Indigenous people. Highlighting the everyday and relishing in the ordinariness of being is a small way to demonstrate our ongoing presence and multiplicities. Recently I’ve been enjoying a practice of gifting flowers to sitters and thinking of all the flowers in art history that get to live on through paintings - it reminds me that we are infinite.

Sydney with flowers. Oil on canvas, 36x48”. 2025.

Last pic is beside my favourite painting in the show “Self, 32” by James Chiahan Lee.