Starting on my drawing project I combined x9 A3 sheets of paper together and drew a portrait that spans across the larger combined sheet....

Neurodivergent mirroring is a 'reflecting behaviour'. It is the tendency of unconsciously (or sometimes consciously) mimicking the...

After being inspired by the combination of two previous drawings (above left), I followed my plan of recreating what I saw. I decided to...

Doing a few individual traces of my face, I uploaded the drawings into photoshop to see what would happen if I selected different facial...

To trace my face I run my index finger of one hand up the bridge of my nose, over my eyebrows, around my eyes, down the bridge of my...

Following my painting plan ( https://www.laurensimons.art/post/painting-plan ) I set about projecting the images onto the working surface...

'Behind the Smile' is an audiovisual exhibition be Tom Gould in collaboration with Voices of Hope, presenting the personal narratives of...

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

Attending the Aotearoa Art Fair offered valuable insight into the current state of contemporary art practices in New Zealand. The fair...

This exhibition opening at Artspace Aotearoa consisted of collaborative works by composer Ethan Braun and graphic designer Lina Grumm....

In the studio, I plan to develop a new work that brings together multiple portrait drawings into a single layered image. What started as...

There is something about the face that keeps drawing people in. It’s both familiar and strange, all at once. Recognisable, but never...

Imagine waking up each day and mentally preparing for a performance; not on stage, but in every conversation, classroom, workplace, or...

“Annette Messager.” 2021. Wikipedia. March 2, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Messager . Annette Messager was born in 1943 in...

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...

Drawings 5 to 10 of a series of 10. These additions are paper size A5. The photos below share the reference images, the cropping lines,...

Drawings 3 and 4 of a series of 10. These additions are paper size A4. The photos below share the reference images, the cropping lines,...

Following the critique, I started looking at my drawings and decided to focus on creating more and allowing my work to guide itself. By...