Baker unveiled her environmentally focused 2 metre bronze sculpture, ‘Consciousness Awakening’, during 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.
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. Her artwork has raised over 100k for charity. Lauren has a MISSION to plant 8888 trees in the Amazon.
In 2019, the artist focused on environmental art activism installations ‘Letter To Mother Earth’ at Tate Exchange and ‘An Open Dialogue With Nature’ at Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair. In 2020 Lauren focused support towards The Big Issue, designing an electric guitar in collaboration with Fender which was auctioned.
Baker's work visually interpret unseen energy. Lauren listens to sound frequencies and gets in a meditative state to digitally paint auras and energy, she then incorporates diamond dust, neon and kinetic elements to create celestial artworks. Her collection ‘The Immensity of The Universe’ was released in Saatchi Gallery (Sep 2018) which consists in a sensory experience that explores the origins of the universe and the intriguing beauty born from destruction and chaos.
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).
