Banner image: bathtime (2021). Image courtesy of the artist. Description: still frame from a moving image work, showing a close crop of a person's face - their eyes and the bridge of their nose - overlaid with abstract shapes and purple hues.

Latest collaboration: Lauren was shortlisted for the 2025 Baltic x Shape Arts Emergent programme.

Artist statement: Lauren McDougall is a multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow.

Her practice navigates the intricate depths of feminist theory, exploring the evolving relationships between women, selfhood, nature, and societal constructs. At the core of her practice is a surreal reinvention of the female form, drawn from the archives of art history, advertising, and pornography. Through recontextualisation, she interrogates androcentric Western representations of femininity and womanhood, deconstructing both historical and contemporary portrayals to expose and rewrite the narratives embedded in social consciousness.

Her work exists at the intersection of the organic and the digital, blending analogue processes with technological interventions. She utilises the digital era not only as a tool but also as a conceptual framework, examining how technology mediates identity, sexuality, and power. Her practice remains in constant negotiation between past and future, material and virtual, dismantling binaries to create the uncanny.

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