Bio
Wona Bae (South Korea) and Charlie Lawler (Australia) are an artist duo. Their collaborative practice explores the complex interconnected relationships between humans and the ecosystems they inhabit. Bae and Lawler are interested in discourse surrounding environmental debate, interrogating the contradictory logics embedded within social, political and ecological structures.
Through installation, sculpture, data, video and archival media, their work traverses a line of inquiry spanning past, present, and future ecologies. Seeking to re-contextualise humans evolving relationship with the natural world. Bae and Lawler’s immersive installations deconstruct familiar forms, recasting natural systems and data, searching for new ways of making sense of the world.
Bae and Lawler’s recent curated exhibitions include Strata at the 3rd Bankstown Biennale, Sydney (2024-2025), Field of Vision at the Korean Cultural Centre,Sydney (2024), Present Being at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (2023/2024). Daily Archive at Gujung Art Center, Onyang Museum, South Korea (2022); The National 3: Australian Art Now at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2021), and En Route at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2019/20).
Their recent solo exhibitions include Perimeters at Bruny NORTH, Tasmania (2025), Deep Time at Daine Singer, Melbourne (2024), Late at Passage Gallery, Sydney (2023) and Park Dream at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale (2023). Other notable solo shows include Time Machine at Daine Singer, Melbourne (2023), and Happy Hour at Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne (2022).
In 2024, they were awarded the North Sydney Art Prize for Late and have been finalists in prestigious Australian art prizes, including the Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award (2024), Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2024), and Wynne Prize (2022).
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Wona Bae (South Korea) and Charlie Lawler (Australia) are an artist duo. Their collaborative practice explores the complex interconnected relationships between humans and the ecosystems they inhabit. Bae and Lawler are interested in discourse surrounding environmental debate, interrogating the contradictory logics embedded within social, political and ecological structures.
Through installation, sculpture, data, video and archival media, their work traverses a line of inquiry spanning past, present, and future ecologies. Seeking to re-contextualise humans evolving relationship with the natural world. Bae and Lawler’s immersive installations deconstruct familiar forms, recasting natural systems and data, searching for new ways of making sense of the world.
Bae and Lawler’s recent curated exhibitions include Strata at the 3rd Bankstown Biennale, Sydney (2024-2025), Field of Vision at the Korean Cultural Centre,Sydney (2024), Present Being at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (2023/2024). Daily Archive at Gujung Art Center, Onyang Museum, South Korea (2022); The National 3: Australian Art Now at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2021), and En Route at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2019/20).
Their recent solo exhibitions include Perimeters at Bruny NORTH, Tasmania (2025), Deep Time at Daine Singer, Melbourne (2024), Late at Passage Gallery, Sydney (2023) and Park Dream at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale (2023). Other notable solo shows include Time Machine at Daine Singer, Melbourne (2023), and Happy Hour at Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne (2022).
In 2024, they were awarded the North Sydney Art Prize for Late and have been finalists in prestigious Australian art prizes, including the Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award (2024), Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2024), and Wynne Prize (2022).
Download Bae & Lawler CV