Ida Lawrence Indonesian–Australian, b. 1988

Ida Lawrence is a Berlin-based artist who delights in bringing stories to life through painting. Her stories, like her travels and exhibitions, meander to Indonesia, Australia, Germany and between. Lawrence’s “tallest tale” was a mural on the iconic 8 metre x 12 metre wall at Urban Spree, Berlin (2020), while other career highlights include the exhibitions Reality Check (Purga Artspace, in the 2024 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival), Amid the Alien Corn (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2023), 15th Asian Art Biennale (Dhaka, 2012), Basa-Basi / Chit-Chat (ART SG with ISA Art Gallery, 2023) and In Conversation: FX Harsono x Ida Lawrence (Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Sydney, 2019). A graduate of the National Art School, Sydney, she also studied at Sydney College of the Arts and Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta. Lawrence was a recipient of the Marten Bequest Scholarship for Painting and is an alumna of the BPA// Berlin program for artists. She often collaborates, notably with Woven Kolektif, and her first childhood dog was named after the painter Georgia O’Keefe because they both liked bones.