Biography
Lauren Jetty (b.1991) is an artist, performer, musician, lecturer and educator, often blurring the lines between these roles. Curiosity and conversation drive Lauren’s practice; she presents scenarios that bring the familiar into the realm of the magical.
She specialises in the ‘other’ senses (taste, touch and smell), with a particular interest in the cross-modality of scent and sound. Each of the senses plays a role in the reception or perception of the others. The collaboration and contradiction of senses can be utilised to create playful and surprising physical sensory experiences. This physicality of experience is important in an increasingly digital and digitised world. The ‘other’ senses require this physicality and intimacy.
Lauren works between The Netherlands and Wales, where she has a studio at Elysium and is part of the iii team in her role of Communication Manager. She teaches a course ‘practical perfumery for olfactory art’, and an introduction to the ‘primitive senses’ at KABK. She is also involved in the formation of a woodland, Joseph’s Wood.
Background
Raised in Brighton, UK, Lauren’s love of sensory experience derives from her encounters with the sea and seaside life. She was lucky enough to be raised in a family that are both creative and scientific; an inventor grandfather, an architect father and painter mother. Now working and living between Wales and The Netherlands she is part of Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii), a regular teacher at KABK as well as a part of Elysium and Joseph’s Wood.
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Education
2017-2019, KABK/KonCon, MMus ArtScience
2011-2014, Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Art
2010-2011, Camberwell College of Art, Foundation Diploma, Level 3 drawing certificate
Selected Events
2024, In- Out- & Onwards, duo show, bb15, Linz
2023, SAMPLELYSIUM, Swansea
2023, UNHEARD Sound and Music Festival, Hong Kong
2023, Prospects, Van Nelle Factory, Art Rotterdam
2021, Brewing the Sublime, iMAL, Brussels
2021, The Hague Contemporary weekend, Trixie, Den Haag
2021, iii Sensory Kit #2 : ArtScience Body
2021, Window <3 Lab 1.2, Trixie, Den Haag
Postponed, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2020, Art and Olfaction Awards, LA, Sadakichi Award for experimental work with scent – finalist
2019, HUBS Festival, Theater De Regentes, Den Haag
2019, Into The Great Wide Open, festival, Vlieland
2019, Unexpected Smells, De Electriciteitsfabriek, Den Haag
2018, NOITITEPER – Residency and exhibition at De Fabriek, Eindhoven
2018, Metadata – How We Relate To Images, Lethaby Gallery, in collaboration with The Warburg Institute
Recent Residencies
2024, bb15
2023, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong
2019, Attic Lab, Arnhem
2018, De Fabriek, Eindhoven
2016, The Petrie Museum, London
Publications
2020, The Andean Information Age (editor)
2019, [Na]Scent Language, an interactive thesis on scent and language
2018, Metadata – How we relate to images, exhibition publication with essays
2015, Poor British Artists, Art Car Boot publication
2014, UAL Libraries – Crafting Parameters: How does craft inform our judgment of contemporary art?
Teaching/Workshops/Lectures
2024, Tangible Music Lab, Linz
2023, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong
2020 – present, KABK, Den Haag
2021, iii, Den Haag
2020, The Experimental Scent Summit, LA (online)
2019, ArtEz, Arnhem
2018, Odoroama, Mediamatic, Amsterdam
2018, The Experimental Scent Summit, London