in shochu, and laboratory glass. It is a permanent installation. Memory of Lived Spaces, T3 Terminal Changi Singapore. This work blends architecture with nature. Photographic panels are overlaid with painted sheets of glass. Laurence was the Australian representative to the United Nation’s Convention on Climate Change in late 2015. Her work, Deep Breathing Resuscitation for the Reef (Australia Museum) focused on the fragility of the Great Barrier Reef—a World Heritage Site—because of climate change. The critically acclaimed installation used pigment as well as acrylic boxes and laboratory glass to enclose wet specimens and coral. On her view of works on site, she has said:The offering of nature is so important because when an artist creates it, there is more significance than when a landscape company does it. It draws your attention to it, and the work becomes much more than merely a landscape. On being a woman artist, she has said, Collections Laurence's works are held in a number of collections including: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Australian War Memorial, Canberra; Museum Kunstwerk, Eberdingen, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Seibu Collection, Tokyo; World Bank Collection, Washington DC; University of New South Wales, Sydney; University of Western Australia, Perth. Exhibitions (solo and group) 1981: First solo exhibition: Notes from the Shore, Central Street Gallery, Sydney. 1992: Synthesis, Bond Stores, Sydney, an exhibition about artists and architects working together. 2000: Muses: Janet Laurence, Artist in the Museum, Ian Potter Museum, National Gallery of Victoria 2010: Abundant Australia: 11th Venice Architecture Biennale, Australian Pavilion, Venice, Italy 2010: Handle With Care: 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia 2010: Waiting, 17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance – Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney 2010: In the Balance: Art for a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2012: In Memory of Nature, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2012: After Eden, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney 2012: Negotiating this World, NGV, Melbourne 2013: SCANZ: 3rd Nature, New Plymouth, New Zealand 2013: ½ Scene, Australia China Art Foundation (ACAF), Melbourne, VIC 2013: Animate/Inanimate, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healsville, VIC 2014: The Skullbone Experiment: A Paradigm of Art and Nature, Launceston Museum, Tasmania, Australia 2014: What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, FAS Contemporary,