Lauren Duffy is a visual artist with a penchant for printmaking, marketing, and design. Through her practice, Lauren explores ideas involving faddish consumption, lifestyle fetishes, and compulsive trends. Fascinated with expansive and immersive works utilizing pattern, repeat motifs, and colour, she chooses to work primarily in screenprinting. She is currently focused on wall-based print assemblages, which draw the viewer in with aesthetically lush, rich imagery, and play with the illusions of plenty created by consumer culture. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Lauren presently resides in Waterloo, Ontario. www.laurenmduffy.com
LAUREN DUFFY Untitled Screen print 140cm x 140cm
My art practice embraces an integrative approach, combining media from print, installation, and photography, to film. I explore our relationship with consumption and compulsion: be it our constant need to embrace the latest trend, our habitual purchase of ‘health-improving’ products, or (at its most extreme) an unstoppable impulse to cleanse. The most recent phase of my work specifically addresses the condition of faddish consumption habits seen in raw foodism and juicing. One of my central questions is how does an object, practice, or habit develop into a defining feature that shapes a subculture? Do we pick up habits because they interest us, or because they’re on trend? And, in doing so, are we able to understand their history, historical impact, importance or lack of importance?
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