Lori spent her early childhood on the family’s farm at Yilliminning in the wheatbelt of WA, and her early adult life jillarooing on the cattle station of her husband’s family in the Pilbara, WA. She and her husband now farm on their sustainable regenerative agricultural farming property in Boyaup Brook, WA, from where she paints at her studio.

“My art practice is an exploration of myself, my identity and placement within my family’s multifaceted history. It is illustrated directly from lived experiences on country and my responses to, and relationship with our landscape. Matrilineal memories within my shared European and indigenous histories in the Australian landscape, engages commentary around the simultaneously constructive and destructive relationship between wo(man) and land."

The botanical elements in Lori's work are used as a reflection of personal transformations. They link key positive personality traits of people with ecological characteristics of botanicals to create a distinctive 'language of flowers' as a way of expressing inner strengths/virtues. Significantly they dually seek to create a narrative around our cultural identity and role within our natural world.

In recent workings Lori has extended Nature-Culture concepts to include installations of found flora, fauna and composite earthen raw materials. Repurposing natural forms found in her farm bushland aids in creating contemporary depth to the painted themes. Regenerating storylines using natural resources aims to examine the concept of placement. Firstly, self-placement within family culture, 'who am I? who has shaped me?' and the environmental imprinting influencing ones bearing and identity.

Q & A:

What is your favourite -Song or Band or Musical Genre? I range from old country like Charlie Pride and Johnny Cash to rock n roll and rap. No favourite, more so responding to songs that mark a particular memory in time.

What is the biggest risk you ever took? creating art.

If you could own any animal as a pet, what would you choose? A unicorn

What was your favourite toy as a kid? Koala bear made from real fur with a music box in his heart. You would wind up the key in his chest and waltzing Matilda played. I would put my ear to his chest and hear the grinding of the box over the music and think it was his heart beating. His name was koala, very original!

Who is the Artist who inspires you most? I respect many artists from many periods but the western desert art movement beginning in the settlement of Papunya is soul moving, my favorite being Rover Thomas.

What would be your favourite smell? The smell of horses and tack rooms, petrichor - (smell of rain on dry ground)

Who is the one person you would love to have dinner with in the whole universe? My forebearers

Are you a Coffee or Tea person, and what is your go to order? Green tea, loose leaf first harvest Shincha

What is the worst outfit you ever wore? Too many, I was a seventies feral farm kid. Terry toweling is something I still avoid!!

If you won the lottery, what would you do first? Fix the broken windows and wonky doors in our house. I would love to have a bigger space to paint, more purpose built for painting and exhibiting.