Lori Pensini spent her early childhood on her family's farm at Yilliminning in the wheatbelt of Western Australia, and her early adult life jillarooing on the cattle station of her husband’s family, Wyloo, in the Pilbara, Western Australia. She now farms with her husband on their sustainable regenerative agricultural farming property in the south west of Western Australia, Boyup Brook, where her studio is located.
Lori is a highly credentialed artist having held 30 solo exhibitions & hung in some 50 group shows. She is nationally recognised with being shortlisted for over 140 painting prizes and recorded as Australia's highest awarded artist 5 years running - 2020-2025. Notably she won the Collie Art Prize 2025; Portia Geach Memorial Award 2024; Kilgour Art Prize, Newcastle 2021 and Perth Royal Landscape 2022.
The botanical elements in Lori's work are used as a reflection of personal transformations. They link key positive personality traits of people with ecological characteristics of botanicals to create a distinctive 'language of flowers' as a way of expressing inner strengths/virtues. Significantly they dually seek to create a narrative around our cultural identity and role within our natural world.
“My art practice is an exploration of myself, my identity and placement within my family’s multifaceted history. It is illustrated directly from lived experiences on country and my responses to, and relationship with our landscape. Matrilineal memories within my shared European and indigenous histories in the Australian landscape, engages commentary around the simultaneously constructive and destructive relationship between wo(man) and land." - Lori Pensini
Date of birth1970Place of birth / nationalityNarrogin Western AustraliaPlace activeBoyup Brook, Western Australia
