Long Transient Feeling
LAUREN EDMONDS
THE HUB GALLERY
(Caboolture Regional Art Gallery)
28 March – 23 April 2026
Tue-Sat 10am-4pm
This solo exhibition of new media installations, animations, and 2D work by multidisciplinary artist Lauren Edmonds uses the motif of a train as a visual metaphor for collective unease in a time of uncertainty and compounding crises. The works explore how this sense of forward motion, despite an unclear destination, intersects with issues like the post-truth instability, climate inaction, and growing social divides.
Drawing from the allegorical tradition of the Ship of Fools, Edmonds reimagines the train as both a symbol of collective momentum and a liminal space for reflection. Melancholic, yet edged with glimmers of hope and resilience, the exhibition considers the tension between passivity and agency – and what it means to persist in a moment of time that feels simultaneously fast-moving and fixed in the status quo.
This is the second showing of the exhibition, with the first iteration exhibited at Project Gallery, QCAD in Brisbane in August 2025. The exhibition was presented by Flying Arts Alliance as part of their 2024 Queensland Regional Arts Awards – in which Edmonds received the QRAA Environmental Art Award for their video installation Dark Forebodings (2023–24).
Opening event: Sat 28 Mar, 11am
For more information visit City of Moreton Bay Galleries & Museums website
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Lauren Edmonds (b.1993) is a multidisciplinary artist based in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Their practice spans painting, drawing, animation, installation, sculpture and object-making; often blending handmade elements with technology. Their work explores socio-political themes through both commentary and quiet reflection, prompting conversation around media influence, activism, social agency, and the complexities of contemporary life.
Edmonds was the recipient of the Environmental Art Award at the 2024 Queensland Regional Art Awards, presented by Flying Arts Alliance. In 2017 their interactive artwork I dun good (2015) was selected for the Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art that toured nationally until 2021. They have received multiple awards for new media, animation, and drawing, including the Sunshine Coast Art Prize New Media Awards in 2014 and 2015. Edmonds holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (First class Honours, 2015) from Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art.
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