Responding to, and answering questions raised in feedback from my presentation: How do other neurodivergent artists or writers translate...

Work being critiqued: https://www.laurensimons.art/post/install-and-artist-statement-1 This critique session provided valuable insights...

Untitled Lauren Simons, 2025 This body of work engages with the disruption of traditional portraiture by deliberately fragmenting and...

Work being critiqued: https://www.laurensimons.art/post/install-and-artist-statement When first viewing my work, the critique group was...

Self Lauren Simons, 2025 Self is a body of work that addresses the effort required to present and maintain a socially legible self. This...

My install space (circled in red and marked with my name) has two parallel facing walls. My initial plan is to install my paintings on...

I have been drafting a statement to sit alongside my most recent works seen in my previous posts: https://www.laurensimons.art/post/paint...

I decided that it would be best to go through my research proposal again and rewrite it putting it into stages that would be beneficial for the development of my practice. I have broken it down into three stages: Neurodivergence in Contemporary Art Neurodivergent Portraiture and Layered Identity Visual Phenomena and the Phenomenological Encounter These stages will help me focus on the position of neurodivergence within the contemporary arts, as well as the content and context

The expressions in these portraits were again noticed to be neutral/unknown. They were not sad or angry, but rather portrayed a more...

Having used crisp white paper felt pure, intimate, and present, especially with the extensive use of negative space (unused space). The...

Having a little pre-critique session of what I have been working on and producing over a couple weeks has been helpful in pinpointing...

Light, Colour, and the Act of Seeing This research engages with phenomenological aesthetics, exploring how perception is shaped by embodied experience and sensory engagement. By examining the dynamic relationship between the viewer and the artwork, I aim to deepen my understanding of how light, colour, and materiality influence the subjective experience of an artwork. Rather than treating perception as a passive process, this research considers vision as an active, bodily exp

Light, Colour, and the Act of Seeing This research engages with phenomenological aesthetics, exploring how perception is shaped by embodied experience and sensory engagement. By examining the dynamic relationship between the viewer and the artwork, I aim to deepen my understanding of how light, colour, and materiality influence the subjective experience of an artwork. Rather than treating perception as a passive process, this research considers vision as an active, bodily exp