Frondiloquence

Irish-born artist Lauren Baylor, BA (Fine Art), presents an exhibition of paintings and installation works exploring layered states of consciousness & creativity through expressive light and gestural form, as a means of healing and a connection to home.

Last year, Lauren took some time away to write a story.
“While the characters and ideas continue to unfold, many of them have wandered beyond the page and onto other surfaces. Frondiloquence is where they have landed.”

Through colour, texture and gesture, the works explore emotional states and our sense of soulful adventure. The exhibition unfolds as a numinous visual journey into reconnecting with the creative parts that live within us. Lauren uses Irish words, a language she had almost forgotten, in a new way, loosely, romantically, beckoning those unseen links to that ephemeral place, we collectively belong.

“Over the past five years, I have deeply engaged with a range of spiritual and healing practices, including meditation, Reiki and intuitive development. The more layers that have revealed themselves, the more this has activated a desire to let go and explore the powerful process of healing through creativity. Painting often becomes a conversation — a call and response between symbol, emotion and intuition. This work feels like a way of stepping outside time and space, returning to something familiar and deeply human.

In a world that often feels heavy with uncertainty and destruction, the act of creating becomes an important thoroughfare for connection and awareness. The more I follow that creative energy, the more synchronicities appear.”

Influenced by the visionary art of Hilma af Klint and the luminous stained glass of Harry Clarke, this exhibition invites viewers into a reflective space to pause, sense, and reconnect with their own inner landscapes.

Solo Exhibition, The Shop Gallery, Sydney, Apr 2026