Lauren Shantall currently lives in Cape Town. She exhibits regularly in gallery group shows, with three solo shows to date. She is a founding member of Open Studios Fish Hoek & Clovelly. She has agent’s representation with Source Artistry in South Africa.
Lauren’s expressive paintings explore our relationship with plants and their flowers. She works directly from ever-changing live subjects entailing the need to work quickly – this need for speed means that she works mainly in acrylics, which dry faster than oils. Foremost is the desire to convey that moment of connection between plant and person.
Exhibitions
- Art on the Mountain, Group Show, 33 Bree, Cape Artists Gallery. May 2026
- Art on the Mountain, Group Show, Suidoosterfees, 29 April-3 May 2026
- Art under the bed. Cape Town. May 2026
- Models, Tests, Prototypes. Group Show. Wunders. November 2025
- Emergence. Group Show. Artvark Gallery. November 2025.
- Open Studios Fish Hoek Clovelly. October 2025.
- Group showings at By the Light Gallery. 2025
- Group Show. AITY Gallery. June 2025
- Got Junk. Group Show. The Fourth Gallery. April 2025
- Colourway. Solo Show + Collab. St Leger & Viney. Cape Town. March 2025
- Group show at AITY Gallery, Franschhoek. March-April 2024
- Kleinsky’s Art. Group Show 2024
- Kleinsky’s Art. Group Show 2023
- Plant Babies. Solo Show. The Yard. February 2023
- LUSH. Group Show. RK Contemporary. December 2022 – February 2023
- Blue. Group Show. RK Contemporary. September 2022
- Deep South Community Art Exhibition. Group Show. Scarborough Community Hall. December 2021
- Familiar Strangers. Group Show. Vacant Museum. July 2021
- Show Some HeART. Group Show. HeART Project. March 2021
- Gathering. Group Show. Jaffer Modern. December 2020
- Colectiva. Group Show. Galeria Azur Madrid. October 2020.
- Relief. Group Show. Vacant Museum. September 2020.
- Eat, Sleep, (I can’t) Breathe. Group Show. Vacant Museum. July 2020.
- In A Frame. Group Show. Spin St Gallery. May 2019.
- Plantasia. Solo Show. Station Rd, Observatory. 2004
Lauren Shantall currently works in acrylics on canvas. The subject of her paintings oscillates between an examination of the minutiae of domestic life and her engagement with the external, natural landscape beyond her home.
Born in Durban, South Africa in 1973, Lauren currently resides permanently in Cape Town, South Africa and has done so since completing her postgraduate studies in English at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1995. At present, she has a demanding career in communications and is the founder and director of a multiple award-winning agency Scout PR & Social Media (named best agency in South Africa at the 2020 Media Innovator Awards). She devotes time to furthering her painting practice amongst her various work commitments to her clients and staff, and her family commitments to her husband and their son.
Lauren took art as a main subject in high school, where she was jointly awarded the Carmel College Art Prize in her final year. Upon matriculation, a scholarship to study English Literature directed her career path into media and communications. Not wanting to relinquish her passion for fine art, she pursued her art studies outside of tertiary institutions. Over the years, she has taken live drawing classes with Clare Menck, painting classes with Diana Page, and joined a regular painting group with friends. Since September 2018, she has been taking weekly creativity classes with artist and curator, Sue Kaplan.
Exhibitions:
- In A Frame. Spin St Gallery. May 2019.
- Eat, Sleep, (I can’t) Breathe. vacantmuseum.com. July 2020.
- www.vacantmuseum.com. September 2020.
- Colectiva. Galeria Azur Madrid. October 2020.