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This week we spoke to artist Ida Lawrence, who Fiona heard giving a lecture at NAS and asked if we could speak to her back in Berlin over zoom. Ida has spent time in Indonesia, Australia and now Germany practising as an artist. She is a really interesting artist and we hope you enjoy listening to her stories. 

'Ida Lawrence is a visual artist who weaves stories through her art and education projects.

My narrative paintings combine text and images to tell stories of (mis)understanding, (dis)connection, generosity, failure and surprise. They make a big deal out of small observations, tiny gestures and little feelings I’ve experienced or imagined.

I enjoy playing with the ‘visual language’ of painting — how images can have multiple meanings and how the ways a painting is made including its ‘abstract’ and painterly qualities can contribute to or subvert the story being told. While each work contains its own visual logic, many of my paintings let their own construction process (or illusion of it) remain visible: patterns disintegrate through imperfect repetition, mistakes are crudely crossed out, a work might be painted on the floor allowing elements to be painted at all angles, and images on the one canvas might be portrayed through a variety of techniques and degrees of detail.'