Lauren Baker, born 1982, from Middlesbrough, UK. Currently lives and works in London. Lauren Baker is a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist who exhibits internationally. Her work explores symbolism, higher realms of consciousness, and communing with nature and the elements. Lauren's signature light works exude energy through her 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 unveiled her environmentally focused 2 metre bronze sculpture, ‘Consciousness Awakening’, during the Venice Biennale. The piece - a tree-like-plant sprouting eyes stands in Giardini Marinaressa via the European Cultural Centre - until the 24 Nov 2024. Baker battled storms to unveil her monumental ‘Wisdom Totems’, which explore symbolism, each ten metre tall at Burning Man, Nevada desert - Aug 2023. Her ‘Luna Woman Power Totem' is a 3.3 metre public light art installation, created in celebration of the suffragette movement in 1914. Placed at the historical landmark Palmers Green London in which the last demonstration before women got the right to vote. Commissioned in Feb 2022 as a long term installation, thanks to Enfield Council and Hive Curates.
Another collaboration was for Frieze Week, when the artist collaborated with BMW Culture X Frieze to launch public light art ‘One Thought Changes Everything’ - Oct 2020. Baker’s large scale celestial public art installations have been commissioned in the UK and as far as the Middle East. In March 2020, sculptures, inspired by the frequency of the Sun and the Moon, both at 4 meters tall, were placed in a UNESCO Protected World Heritage site in a desert in Al Ula, Saudi Arabia, with thanks to MT Art Agency.

Creating a permanent 7.5 meter neon across Surrey St bridge in London, brought a smile to locals reading ‘A simple hello could lead to a million things’, commissioned by Croydon Council - 2017. Baker’s neon typography is renowned for bringing hope and joy. The artist has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern and her work are held in collections worldwide.