Janet Laurence Tarkine, 2012 duraclear, acrylic, dibond mirror, brackets, 120 x 452 x 3 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled, 2012 Installation view 

Janet Laurence As the world turns yellow, 2012 glass, plants, sulphur, pigment, oil, acrylic, mirror 47 x 61 x 49 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled, 2012 installation view

Janet Laurence,  Fabled 12 – Sambar (rusa unicolor) vulnerable, 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra, archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled 11 – Asian tapir (tapirus indicus) endangered, 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled 10 – Sun bear (helarctos malayanus) vulnerable, 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra, archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence,  Fabled 9 – Mitred monkey (presbytis melalophos), 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled 3 – Asian Tapir (tapirus indicus) endangered, 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled 5 – Bearded Pig (sus barbatus), 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence,  Fabled 4 – Clouded Leopard (neofelis diardi) vulnerable, 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled 3 – Asian Tapir (tapirus indicus) endangered, 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled 2 – Sumatran Tiger (panthera tigris sumatrae) critically endangered, 2012 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled 1 – Sambar (rusa nicolor) vulnerable, 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled 7 – Leopard Cat (prionailurus bengalensis), 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

Janet Laurence Fabled 6 – Malayan Porcupine (hystrix brachyura), 2011 camera-trap images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra archival pigment prints on cotton rag, image 25 x 30 cm

For Fabled, Janet Laurence has developed a suite of photographs and wall-based constructions that continue her devotion to the vulnerable in the natural world. Laurence has taken imagery from the Tarkine, an old growth forest in Tasmania, and constructed a multi-panel work. A green void is presented to us, depicting a verdant site now under threat, having recently been reopened for deforestation and mining.

In a separate gallery images of animals in the wild of Aceh, Sumatra, are captured unaware, as a camera triggered by their movement shows them in their natural state. Laurence draws out the inherent tension between these two worlds, both of which are in a state of flux and danger. Poised as if before the fall, these works explore the photographic moment, their subjects captured momentarily in time. They exist both as archive, and as a living index for the wilderness, that fabled, fragile and ghostly space that we always wish to be there, but so often overlook.