Shining a light
“I like the idea that weeds are considered a pest, but they’re often a beautiful little flower that we don’t notice.”
DESPITE OWNING A TREE-FILLED, tropical retreat in Noosa’s hinterland in Queensland, Lauren Jones doesn’t actually like gardening. If you think this might make it tricky to create paintings for Country Gardens-themed exhibition, you’ve forgotten that artists are in fact alchemists, adept at turning the most unpromising material into gold. “I decided to do a little series
