Work being critiqued: https://www.laurensimons.art/post/install-and-abstract-1 Artist recommendations: Isa Genzken Lily Vanderstocker Nicholas Party Charles Ray Hague Yang Charlotte Posenenska Comments: Construction of boxes. Building materials. Plywood and screws. Construction very visible; in a way that furniture and architecture tries to hide all the fixings, whereas this is all exposed and we can see the screws and the inside of the objects. Very fresh. Structured but the

Untitled Lauren Simons, 2026 Chalk pastel, charcoal and acrylic paint pen on plywood This body of work investigates perception as an embodied neurodivergent process and experience. For me drawing becomes a living record of cognition and sensation — what I have described as a kind of mind-map, a way of documenting what I see and what happens in my head as it unfolds. Rather than beginning with a predetermined outcome, the work develops through a position of not-knowing, allowi

When thinking about installing my work, the only 'problematic' pillar was this on with the legs (above). I have tried three different variations of layout, changing the panels that I have placed on the floor. The first was having both legs jutting out but with one leg flipped. The second was having one leg jutting out and having a different panel with a different drawing jutting out. The third was having both legs jutting out in the correct orientation with the drawing. I fou

After constructing all the pillars, I went ahead and stacked them in a random order to continue drawing on them using the same process as the previous drawings.