Lauren Pearce: in conversation with Folasade Ologundudu

Everything Is Connected · Jul 27, 2022 · 28m

On this episode we're joined by Lauren Pearce.

Lauren Pearce is a black artist who pulls inspiration from her community, creating powerful mixed media art, bringing textures in her portraits, and iconic shapes and colors to her captivating murals. Her passion for expressing her identity led her to art School. At the age of 24, she began her professional career as an artist. Using an array of materials in her work, she transfers her world into her paintings and allows her imagination to bring forth the colorful language of Identity, race, and womanhood, beyond a canvas…