Laura Sikes is a neurodiverse artist and florist living and working on Wardandi Noongar Boodja, in Goomburrup (Bunbury, WA). This exhibition marks Sikes as the first artist presented through Bunbury Regional Art Gallery’s Pivot program, an initiative supporting local emerging and experimental arts practices.
Laura Sikes | Pivot Program Artist Exhibition
1 February 2026 to 28 February 2026
This exhibition brings together a selection of works drawn from a much larger personal archive of images. The works move between the natural world and the human form, presenting the body as fragmented, layered and continually transforming. Physical and digital processes sit side by side, blurring distinctions between what is real, remembered, edited or imagined.
Through an intuitive, spiritually informed and playful approach, Sikes engages with ideas of self-love and body positivity, using fragmentation and accumulation as ways to reconsider how flesh is seen, felt and valued. The works invite viewers into an intimate and disorienting space where traces of bodies, landscapes and digital artefacts overlap, dissolve and reform.
Working across photography, collage, printmaking, video and installation, Sikes explores shifting relationships between the body, place and technology. Sikes holds a Diploma of Photography from North Metro TAFE and studied Contemporary Art, Photography and Fashion at Edith Cowan University. Sikes has exhibited widely across Australia, including at the National Portrait Gallery, Perth Centre for Photography, Paper Mountain, Spectrum Project Space and Kolbusz Space. In 2025, Sikes was awarded a Next Level Fellowship through Regional Arts WA to support the development of their first solo exhibition, Flesh in Bloom, scheduled for June 2026 at Arts Narrogin.
Please note: artwork contains nudity and is not suitable for young or sensitive viewers.