Collage, 2023 Lauren McLaughlin Collage, 2023 Lauren McLaughlin

Madonna as a Young Mum

Madonna as a Young Mum combines archival photographs of myself as a young mother with traditional religious iconography of Madonna and Child. In these collages, I have replaced my own face with that of the Virgin Mary’s and combined a traditional colour palette found in religious iconography with mark making that could be found in a teenage diary.

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Collage Lauren McLaughlin Collage Lauren McLaughlin

Madonnas

An ongoing series of collages on paper which combine traditional Madonna & Child iconography with contemporary found images of mothers.

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Neon, 2016 Lauren McLaughlin Neon, 2016 Lauren McLaughlin

A Conflict of Interests

A conflict of interests is a typographical work whereby the words "Mother" "other" "her" and "Me" flash consecutively and continuously as a visual representation of the identity conflicts women experience in matrescence.

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