In 2014 Lawrence was awarded a PhD from Griffith University for her thesis Material Matters: Contemporary Women’s Work. Through residencies in Australia, USA, Japan, China and Iceland she has researched the shifting boundaries of nature and culture, developing transnational parameters and perspectives that embrace the fragile and ephemeral nature of both life and time. Her contribution to environmental awareness was recognised when she was awarded the 2013 greening the beige Kunming eco-arts residency. Lawrence has had 9 solo exhibitions in Australia, USA and China and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Lithuania, China, and Iceland.

From within a feminist paradigm, informed by the voluptuous beauty of the natural environment, Lawrence critically engages with our anthropomorphism and consequent ecological issues. Using the body’s liminal positioning between nature and culture to help us understand our place in the world she interweaves image, metaphor and abstraction. Negotiation and transgression of the borders and boundaries delineating the relationship between nature and culture is achieved using drawing, sculpture, digital mediums, women’s work and exploration of the body as subject and medium. Notions of impermanence, contingency and the fragility of our natural environment are validly addressed using mediums that are similarly framed.

Lawrence uses the body’s liminal positioning between nature and culture to help us understand our place in the world. As parallels emerge between the vulnerability of the landscape and the human body, due to human intervention, it is cogent that these connections are investigated through the use of the body as metaphor for the natural world: its vulnerability, fragility, ephemerality and mutability. Her works utilising digital mediums, women’s work, sculpture and drawing, reference the increasing alienation of humans from nature, many of whom seem to have little comprehension of the interconnectedness of our daily lives with the natural environment.