Lauren Baker

Lauren Baker

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£395 - £12,500

About

Lauren Baker (B.1982) is a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist from Middlesbrough, UK, who now lives and works in London. Lauren's neon typography is renowned for bringing hope and joy. She has created installations at The V&A, Saatchi Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern and her works are held in collections worldwide.
Her work explores human connection, metaphysics and the expansiveness of the universe. Lauren's signature neon works portray the power of energy through her poetic typographic and celestial chakra artworks. Passionate about environmental issues and sustainability, the artist uses light to express the 'secrets of the universe', and aims to raise the vibration of love and connection within the world.
She is an experimental artist whose practice expands across multiple disciplines and mediums to address the vastness of the universe. Conceptually grounded but also aesthetically striking, her work involves making the unseen seen. Baker’s visual style is often built around either emitting or reflecting light. Many of her pieces directly reference the frequencies emitted by astronomical bodies, as well as those attributed to plants, human organs and chakras. A sense of mystery and emergence - of connecting with something beyond or much bigger than our own immediate world - pulsates throughout her work.

Baker has created important installations over the years, including most recently at the Venice Biennale 2024, which was featured in the FORBES top 3 Exhibitions.
Following an exhibition in May 2024, she now has a “Megalith Totem” work now permanently installed at Dimbola museum Isle of Wight.
Baker collaborated with BMW Culture X Frieze at Frieze week 2020 to launch public light art ‘One Thought Changes Everything’.
Baker’s large scale celestial public art installations have been commissioned in the UK and as far as the Middle East. Also in 2020, her sculptures inspired by the frequency of the Sun and the Moon - both at 4 metres tall, were placed in a Unesco Protected World Heritage site in the desert (Mar 2020).
In 2017, Baker was commissioned by Croydon Council to create a 7.5-metre neon across a bridge.
With a focus on environmental sustainability, Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and has done multiple collaborations with Help Refugees.
Baker’s most intricate work, which sold for £420,000 to an influential sheikh in Qatar, is a Steinway grand piano encrusted with half a million crystals (Feb 2015). The Crystal Tigress; a sculpted life-size tiger head encrusted with 52,000 crystals, which toured Asia, and was endorsed by Jimmy Choo and Jaime Winstone, fetched £30,000 at the tiger conservation charity auction for Save Wild Tigers. (2014).