Lauren is a Hull-based interdisciplinary visual artist, researcher and producer, working dynamically across visual art, writing and community practice. Her work spans visual, participatory, and site-responsive approaches to storytelling, environment, heritage and lived experience, integrating drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, creative writing, performance, audio-visual, digital media and participation.
Taking a practice-based, participatory and action-research approach, she is interested in how creativity and ethical ‘more-than-human creative collaborations’ can support transformative modes of nature kinship and relationality within communities, motivating them towards place-based climate action, ecology and regenerative futures.
Lauren has over a decade of experience co-creating meaningful creative projects and extensive experience working in collaborative and community-facing contexts, particularly through coastal heritage and nature-based projects in Hull, where accessible audience interaction, responsiveness and emotional connection are central to meaningful engagement.
Her practice strongly reflects TRANSECTS themes of transition, resilience, regenerative futures and storytelling within maritime and land-based contexts – exploring how creative practice can contribute to understanding and imagining regenerative futures through the context of energy. She is interested in how local histories of labour, industry and place-based culture shape contemporary approaches to geographies – and what lessons we can learn from the past to inform future local histories (especially in the context of the climate crisis).
Recent projects include Cloverlore (2025), Wild Dialogue / Mash The Badger (2025), Ballad O Bones (2025)The , Living Room (2025) in Grimsby working with Ukrainian refugees and Queer Mycology Lab (2026) in collaboration with Dr Elspeth Mitchell (University of Leeds). Current projects include Tree Stories (2025-27). Lauren is Co-Director with Dr Jill Howitt of The Critical Fish (2018 – present), an artist-led journal and project promoting critical and accessible writing and thinking about arts and visual culture.
Find out more at Lauren’s website https://laurensaundersart.co.uk