Lauren Fahey (b.1997) is a contemporary painter originally from Gundungurra country, NSW living and working between Naarm/Melbourne and Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country/Canberra. 

Drawing on rural lived experience, her practice explores personal recollections, stewardship, and the evolving relationship between people and the ecological landscape. Working primarily in oils, her process-led paintings transform memory, dreams, and observation into contemplative scenes and symbolic forms that consider care, ritual, time and environmental change.

Through techniques such as surface abrasion, transparent layering, and sensitive mark-making, her works formally and conceptually echo processes of erosion and regeneration. This material approach articulates a reciprocal relationship reflecting on how emotional, cultural, and environmental histories are embedded in land.

Drawing upon a range of contemporary and historical influences, Fahey positions painting as both document and emotional register through which to reflect on the contemporary moment.

Lauren completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at RMIT University in 2021. Since then, she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Melbourne and Tasmania. Her work is held in private collections throughout Australia and internationally.