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

Rooted in her rural upbringing, Lauren’s practice explores the evolving relationship between people and the ecological landscape. Drawing from lived experience and wider ecological narratives, her work engages with ideas of care, disruption, and responsibility — reflecting on how emotional, cultural, and environmental histories are embedded in land.

Working primarily in oils, Lauren uses a process-led approach to translate memory, observation, and emotional response into layered, sensitive compositions. Her paintings sit in the tension between care and harm, past and future, stillness and transformation — inviting quiet encounters with the complexity of stewardship and considering how we shape, and are shaped by, the land. Influenced by both contemporary practitioners and historical artists, her work considers the role of painting and art objects as vessels for documenting and reflecting on the present moment.

Lauren completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at RMIT University in 2021. Since then, she has been involved in solo and group exhibitions including GalleryGalleryInc, Salamanca Art Gallery, and Rubicon ARI.