Lauren Rose Artist

Painter and Artist Working in Sydney

Playing with the lines between real and surreal

About Me

I’m a traditional artist living and working in Sydney, pursuing a career in the arts with my works exploring surrealism and the bizarre.

A Painting Major of the National Art School in 2023, and student at Newcastle Art School in 2021.

Lifelong painter and exploration in all mediums.

I now focus on painting everything that I find wonder and whimsy, not always positive, but thought evoking, which I intend to convey in all of my works.

Finalist for The Kangaroo Valley Art Prize 2026

Fortune Fishing

Oil Painting on Canvas

Oil Painting 'Essence of Being' of a man split into two, standing against a wall

Essence of Being 2026

Oil Painting on Canvas

Finalist for the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026

A sitting portrait of an astronaut with a pigeon head and a ball gag in its mouth, being held from behind by someone with a fishbowl head wearing armour.

Space Bunny

Oil Painting on Canvas

Newcastle Art Gallery Graduate Exhibition

Seizure

Oil Painting on Canvas

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I'm so happy to announce I made finalist for the kangaroo valley art prize, for my recent work 'Fortune Fishing' 🐟💰

Thank you @artsinthevalley for the opportunity! I'm so excited to see the other finalists 🤩

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I made finalist for the @beautifulbizarremagazine 2026 art prize! 💕

Thank you so much beautifulbizarre and @bearwolfbooks for sponsoring the emerging artist prize, the other finalists are incredible and i'm honoured to be a part of it! The experien

Fishing for a grand jackpot 🪙💰🐟

I've witnessed horrors happen in casino koi ponds that have desensitised me to humanity's casual cruelty. Throwing coins into the water for good luck: the koi eat them. Hock phlegm into the water: the koi eat them.

I lied before, this is the kookiest painting

I wouldn't explain the creative process because it would require revealing 14 hour unbroken sessions and inhaling so much turps that I became bedridden for a week 😄👌

Oil on Canvas (100cm x 65cm)

#oilp

My first painting in 2 years and it happens to be the kookiest looking thing i've ever done

I'm calling it 'Essence of Being' thank you @rachelsmithyay for the inspiration muah 🫶

Medium: Oil painting on canvas I found on the side of the road (15 h

Oil portrait study, and an inspired christmas gift

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Cherry lipscrub oil study

Done in 2022 for a project

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Inky trio of skulls 💀💀💀

Study done in 2022 with ink on paper

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A stone-cold mask 🎭

Graphite on paper shading practise 💕

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