Janet Laurence is a Sydney-based artist who works across a range of media to examine our physical, cultural and conflicting relationship to the natural world. Ms Laurence was awarded an Arts Fellowship in 2021 and travelled to Casey research station for three weeks in 2022. A series she made in the lab while on the fellowship voyage was called Ice has a memory, and the memory is blue, where Ms Laurence recorded pigmented melting glacial ice on several sheets of rice paper, creating a series of melting ice maps.
Since the fellowship, Ms Laurence has created some large, layered transparent images on glass, based on images she and some of the scientists photographed. These also have been exhibited. She continues to work on her collection of images from the fellowship, focussing on the fragile state of the Antarctic.