artist kay lawrence
Kay Lawrence AM is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Australia where she had a distinguished career as an educator in the visual arts, becoming the first woman appointed to head the South Australian School of Art in 2002. She has an international profile as a tapestry weaver and her work is held in many public collections in Australia and overseas. In her visual art and writing practices she critically engages with matters of personal and community identity, exploring ideas of loss and connection through the materiality of textiles. Her art practice ranges across woven tapestry to installation and performance works using humble domestic materials like buttons and string to explore the material and immaterial resonances of human life. She has completed a number of major commissions for public spaces and was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1989 for service to the arts as designer of the Parliament House Embroidery in 1988. She recently completed an oral history project with the National Library of Australia interviewing 24 of the 498 women who embroidered this major artwork. Her writing on contemporary craft practice has been published in catalogues, scholarly journals and books. She lives in South Australia in the Adelaide Hills.
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Personal Details
EMERITUS PROFESSOR KAY LAWRENCE, AM
Education
| 1977-1978 | Studied Tapestry weaving at Edinburgh College of Art, UK |
| 1965-1968 | Dip Art teaching with postgraduate year in painting and printmaking South Australian School of Art and Western Teachers College |
Academic
| 2016 | Emeritus Professor of Visual Art, University of South Australia |
| 2010-2012 | Director South Australian School of Art |
| 2002-2015 | Professor of Visual Art, School of Art, Architecture and Design, UniSA |
| 2002-2008 | Head, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia |
| 2001 | Portfolio Leader of Research, South Australian School of Art, UniSA |
| 1995-2000 | Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Textiles Studios, UniSA |
| 1971-1994 | Taught full time and part time at the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, in the painting, printmaking and sculpture studios |
Professional Activities
2008 | Convener, Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) Annual Conference, Adelaide |
2008 | Partner Adelaide Festival Centre, Jumaadi Workshop |
2006/2008 | Partner, Adelaide Festival, Artists Space and Critical Writing masterclasses |
2002 | Consultant, Adelaide Festival 2002 Intertwine event, workshops and forum |
1998-2003 | Editorial committee International Tapestry Journal Adelaide |
1998/2003/ | Coordinator Textiles Bush Camp with artist Ruth Hadlow |
1997 | Coordinator Weaving Culture Camp, Coorong, SA Dec |
1997 | Joint Coordinator, Lake Mungo Project International artists retreat, July, Lake Mungo NSW |
1994-1995 | Joint curator & coordinator, Texts from the Edge:Tapestry & identity in Australia, traveling exhibition & symposium |
1990-1992 | Coordinator Distant Lives/Shared Voices tapestry symposium, Lódz, Poland |
1988-1990 | Lecturing in woven tapestry in summer schools in USA and Australia |
Artist in Community
1999-2001 | Coordinator, Barbara Hanrahan Community Tapestry project |
1993 | Designer, Women's Suffrage Centenary Community Tapestries for the South Australian Parliament |
1989 | Designer, community tapestry for Regency Park Centre for the Young Disabled |
1984- 85 | Coordinator with Shirley Benlow, Millicent Community Tapestry |
1983 | Coordinator Crafers School Tapestry |
1982-83 | Coordinator, Coordinator Adelaide Hills Community Tapestry |
1981 | Salisbury, Community Tapestry |
Advocacy
| 2013-2016 | Board of Governors & Chair Academic Board, Adelaide Central School of Art |
| 2011-2012 | Academic Board, Adelaide Central School of Art |
| 2011-2020 | Board, Australian Tapestry Workshop |
| 2011-2017 | Board, Jam Factory Craft and Design |
| 2004-2007 | President, Craft Australia |
| 2002-2008 | National Executive, ACUADS Australian Council of Art and Design Schools |
| 1998-2000 | President, Craft South |
| 1996-1997 | Board, Crafts Council of South Australia |
| 1989-1991 | Chair, Art for Public Places Committee, South Australia |
| 1985-1989 | Member of the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council |
| 1984-1986 | Member of S.A.V.A.C. (South Australian Visual Arts Committee) and A.W.S.C. (Artists Week Sub-Committee) |
| 1984 | Member of the Artist in Schools Committee for the South Australian Education Department |
| 1984 | Member of the Arts Grant Advisory Panel for the South Australian Government |
| 1979 | Member of Fibreworks Collective, Adelaide |
Research
| 2009 | Supervisor of the Year, Masters by Research, Division of EASS, UniSA |
| 2009-2016 | Parliament House Embroiderers Oral History Project with the National Library of Australia : https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/47801019 |
| 1996-2012 | Supported Researcher, UniSA |
| 2000-2020 | Research Degree Supervision, UniSA |
Selected Commissions
| 2002-3 | Text, Textile and a Coil of String, commissioned artwork for Glazed Entry, State Library of South Australia |
| 2001 | Weaving the Murray, collaborative textile project &installation, Centenary of Federation, SA |
| 1995-1996 | Daughter, woven tapestry commissioned for the Art Gallery of South Australia |
| 1990-1992 | From Italawie to Chambers Gorge, woven tapestry commissioned for Sembler Building, St Petersburg, Florida, USA |
| 1987-1988 | Red Gorge: Two Views, woven tapestry commissioned for the Prime Minister's Suite in new Parliament House, Canberra |
| 1986 | Women in Trade Unions Network banner, Kay Lawrence & Elaine Gardner "Art and Working Life" program initiated by the Australia Council. |
| 1984-1986 | Parliament House Embroidery, Designer and Coordinator of stitching by Embroiderers Guilds across Australia, Parliament House, Canberra |
| 1982 | Two Years, Two Hills, woven tapestry commissioned for the Australian High Commission Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Solo - Duo Exhibitions
2011 | garlands of string Kay Lawrence, Craft ACT Canberra |
2009 | Distilled Matter, Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Tucson, Arizona |
2008 | This everything Water Kay Lawrence, Aubrey Tigan and Butcher Joe Nangan SASA Gallery, 2008 Adelaide Festival |
1999 | Close Ties: Kay Lawrence and Marcel Marois University of Queensland Art Museum, touring Australia |
1985 | Installation of paperworks, Lessness, Festival Theatre Gallery, Adelaide |
1981 | Exhibition of drawings and tapestries, Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide |
1977 | Exhibition of drawings and tapestries, Yureilla Galleries, Adelaide |
1971 | Exhibition of paintings with John Neylon, Llewellyn Galleries, Adelaide |
Selected Awards, Prices, Grants & Residencies
2016 | ACUADS Lifelong Fellowship Award |
2011 | Artist in residence, Siena State College, Tucson, Arizona |
2010 | Project grant, Arts SA |
2008 | Helpmann Academy Grant, $2980, Jumaadi Workshop, Adelaide Festival Centre |
2007 | Arts SA project grant, $9250, This Everything Water |
2007 | Helpmann Academy Grant, $5000, Critics Masterclass, Adelaide Festival |
2005 | Helpmann Academy Grant, $5000, Artist Run Spaces Adelaide Festival |
2000 | Visiting Scholar, Goldsmiths College University of London, UK |
1998 | Development Grant, $13,000 for Barbara Hanrahan Community Tapestry project. Community Cultural Development Fund, Australia Council |
1998 | H.C.Coombs Creative Arts Fellow ANU |
1996, 1997, 1998 | 3 years ARC small grants totalling $40,000 Significant Women Artists at the South Australian School of Art Kay Lawrence, Cathy Speck |
1996 | Fellowship $35,000 Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Australia Council |
1992 | Artists Development Grant $15,000 to attend Distant Lives, Shared Voices Lodz Poland |
1989 | Awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to the arts particularly as the designer of the Parliament House Embroidery |
1981 | Winner, Maude Vizard-Wholahan Purchase Award, Art Gallery of South Australia |
1981 | Winner Batman Purchase Award, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 | Materials Matter: A Bauhaus Legacy, Jam Factory, Adelaide, SA |
2019 | Borderline: Sampling the Edge, Fabrik, Lobethal, SA |
2019 | Place Makers, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Vic |
2018 | Women’s Wealth, curated by Sana Balai & Ruth MacDougall, The Ninth Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane |
2018 | Drawing on Material Things, West Gallery, Adelaide |
2018 | Surface, curated by Linda Marie Walker, Port MacDonnell Community Complex, Port MacDonnell, SA |
2018 | Her Name, curated by Andrew Purvis, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, |
2018 | Crafting the House on the Hill, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT |
2017 | From There to Here, SASA Gallery University of South Australia |
2017 | Drawn Thread, ANU School of Art and Design, Canberra |
2016 | Guildhouse 50, Art Gallery of South Australia |
2014-2015 | The same river twice, Australian Experimental Art Foundation & Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, SA |
2014 | Organic Intimacy, curated by Sara Lindsay, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne & Ararat Regional Gallery, Victoria |
2014 | In stitches, curated by Linda Marie Walker, Esther Gallery Beachport, SA |
2013 | The Third Space: Intercultural crafting, Guildhouse project, Prospect Gallery, Art Images, Adelaide, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery |
2012-2013 | Life, stitching, curated by Linda Marie Walker, Kerry Packer Gallery, Adelaide, Riddoch Gallery Mt Gambier |
2012 | Kindness/Udarta. Australia India Cultural Exchange, Visual Arts Gallery, Habitat Centre, New Delhi & RMIT Gallery, Melbourne |
2011 | Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric, Museum of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
2011 | Day by Day, curated by Vivonne Thwaites, Art Room 5, Henley Beach SA |
2010 | Power Cloths of the Commonwealth, National Crafts Museum Delhi, India |
2010 | Heartlines, curated by Mary Knights, Adelaide Festival of Arts |
2010 | Quiet Reader, Adelaide Central Gallery, SA |
2009 | Distilled Matter, Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Tucson, Arizona |
2009 | Big Name No Blankets, Central TAFE Art Gallery, Perth WA |
2009 | Wangaratta Textile Award, Wangaratta Regional Gallery, Victoria |
2008 | 40 Highlights from the Ararat Regional Art Gallery Textile Fibre Collection, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria |
2008 | Tattered Cultures, Academy Art Centre Honolulu, USA |
2008 | Inspiration & Creativity, American Tapestry Alliance website, USA |
2006 | 17th Tamworth Textile Biennial In the world: head, hand, heart, curated by Vivonne Thwaites, Tamworth City Gallery, touring Australia |
2004 | Fabrics of Change: Trading Identities, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide |
2002 | Material Culture, Australian National Gallery, Canberra |
2002 | Weaving the Murray Art Gallery of South Australia & Prospect Gallery touring SA |
2001-2002 | Frisson;14th Tamworth Textile Biennale, curated by Gillian McCracken, Tamworth Regional Gallery, touring Australia |
2001 | Home is where the Heart is, curated by Vivonne Thwaites, Burra Regional Gallery and touring SA |
2000 | Chemistry Art Gallery of South Australia |
2000 | Lake Mungo Revisited, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn and touring Aust. |
1999 | Drawn in Form, Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane |
1998 | Threefold: Elsje van Kepple, Kay Lawrence, Ernabella , Canberra School of Art Gallery, ANU |
1998 | Origins and New Perspectives Contemporary Australian Textiles, Lõdz Poland |
1998 | Small tapestries from Australia, Galleria Forum, Lõdz, Poland |
1997 | A response to Lake Mungo Works in progress, Long Gallery University of Wollongong, NSW |
1997 | 17th National Craft Acquisition Award Art Gallery of the NT |
1995-1997 | Crossing Borders, Contemporary Australian Textiles Art, curated by Sue Rowley, touring USA |
1994-1995 | Texts from the Edge, Tapestry & Identity, Jam Factory, Adelaide, touring Australia |
1993-1994 | Identities, Art from Australia, Taipeh Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW |
1993 | Drawing 1, Selected Staff Drawings, University of SA Art Museum, SA |
1992 | Banners of the World, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, UK |
1991 | Asia Pacific Crafts Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan |
1990 | South Australian Contemporary Drawing, Anima Gallery, SA |
1989-1991 | Makers Choice, curated By Lynn Collins, Adelaide Festival Centre, then touring Australia |
1989 | One Country, Two Views, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs |
1988 | A Free Hand, survey of Australian Crafts, the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, |
1988 | World Tapestry Today, American Tapestry Alliance, Melbourne |
1986 | Fremantle Drawing Prize, Festival of Perth, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle |
1984 | Self Portrait Quilting Bee, Arts Council of South Australia |
1984 | Six Women Artists, Anima Gallery, Adelaide. |
1984 | Paper Chase, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand |
1983 | Exhibition of Australian Paperworks, Kyoto, Japan |
1982 | Jabberwock Paper Show, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney |
1982 | Paperworks Show, NSW Women and the Arts Festival, Wollongong City Gallery |
1981 | Lódz Textile Triennale, Lódz, Poland |
1981 | Australian Crafts, Meatmarket Craft Centre, Melbourne |
1980 | Australian Weavers in Wool, Melbourne and London |
1979 | The Art of Craft, travelling exhibition of the Art Gallery of South Australia |
1978-1979 | Contemporary Tapestry in Australia, Crafts Council of Australia Gallery, Sydney. |
Books
2018 | Clare Belfrage, Rhythms of Necessity, Kay Lawrence & Sera Waters, Wakefield Press, Adelaide |
Selected Writing
2018 | ‘Bodily Cloth: The Making Process in Artworks by Elsje van Kepple and Jane Whiteley’, Kay Lawrence, (eds) Anne Collett and Leigh Dale, Postcolonial Past and Present: Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies, Brill Rodopi, Leiden, Boston |
2017 | ‘The job you didn’t know you always wanted: the 2016 Australian Tapestry Workshop Trainee Program’, Kay Lawrence, Marmalade, JamFactory, Issue 5/01 Adelaide, pp 44-47 |
2016 | ‘Adventure and Ambition, Kay Lawrence, in Many Hands: The First 40 Years of the Australian Tapestry Workshop, (eds) Mark Butler, Jenny Port, Harper Collins Publishers, Sydney pp 95-101 |
2016 | ‘On Translation’, Kay Lawrence, Tapestry Design Prize for Architects catalogue, Australian Tapestry Workshop |
2013 | ‘Stitched in the Margins’, Kay Lawrence, ‘On the Margin’ ed. Michael Tawa & Linda Marie Walker, Architectural Theory Review, Vol.18, No 2 |
2013 | ‘A woman’s place is in the house: The Womens Suffrage Centenary Tapestries’, Kay Lawrence, Things that Liberate: An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer, (eds) Alison Bartlett & Margaret Henderson, Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
2009 | ‘Listening when others talk back’, Kay Lawrence, ‘Migratory Practices’, Craft + Design Enquiry: Vol 1, No.1 |
2008 | ‘This everything water’ Kay Lawrence, catalogue essay for exhibition This everything Water Kay Lawrence, Aubrey Tigan & Butcher Joe Nangan, SASA Gallery, 2008 Adelaide Festival |
2007 | ‘A Story is like a River: Weaving the Murray’, Kay Lawrence and Nici Cumpston in Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Australia, pp 234-245 |
2005 | ‘Weaving the Murray: Mapping Connection and Loss’, Kay Lawrence, Textile vol 3, Issue 2, Berg Publishers, UK, pp130 – 149 |
2004 | ‘Weaving: An encounter between the Ngarrindjeri, the British and the French’, Kay Lawrence, ‘Reinventing Textiles’ Vol 3, Postcolonialism and Creativity, Telos Art Publishing UK |
2001 | ‘Home is where we start from’ Kay Lawrence and Lindsay Obermeyer, ‘Reinventing Textiles’ Vol 2, Gender and Identity, Telos Art Publishing UK |
2000 | ‘Elsje van Keppel’ Kay Lawrence, The return of beauty, catalogue essay, Adelaide Festival exhibition, Jam Factory, March |
1999 | ‘Losing and Finding, Loss and Reparation’, Fibrearts Summer, 1999 |
1998 | ‘Memory and Materiality’, Kay Lawrence, International Tapestry Journal, Vol 1 No 1 June 1998, pp20 23 |
1998 | ‘Twisted Tangled and Matted, Feltworks by Ing Flint’, Kay Lawrence, Textile Fibre Forum, p13 |
1998 | 'Memory and Materiality, Australian representation at the 9th Triennale of Tapestry, Poland' Kay Lawrence, catalogue essay, Origins and New perspectives, Lódz Textile Triennale, Lódz, Poland |
1997 | 'Fragile Objects by Elsje King' Kay Lawrence, Object, 1997, No 2 |
1996 | ‘Teaching Textiles: reevaluating Textiles Conventions in the Art School’ Kay Lawrence, (ed) Neil CM Brown, Undergraduate Degree Courses In Tertiary Art and Design Education, 1996 ACUADS research seminar proceedings |
1996 | ‘Second Look’ catalogue essay Kay Lawrence, Second Look, Prospect Gallery |
1995 | ‘Marie Cook’, Kay Lawrence, catalogue essay and editor, Texts from the Edge Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide |
1995 | 'Gender and the practice of textiles' Kay Lawrence, Australian Art Education, Vol 18 no 2 1995 |
1994 | 'A Womans place is in the House' Kay Lawrence, contributor, Centenary of Womens Suffrage Community Tapestries, The South Australian Parliament |
1989 | ‘Kay Lawrence, Maureen Hodge, Helen Garner, Narelle Jubellin’ ,Kay Lawrence, catalogue essay Makers Choice, Crafts Council of South Australia |
1988 | ‘The Design’ Kay Lawrence, A Work of Many Hands, The Parliament House Embroidery, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra |
Book & Exhibition Reviews
2019 | ‘Weaving the Way’ Kay Lawrence, exhibition review, Artlink 11 October 2011 |
2015 | ‘Jane Whiteley; Body of Work’, Kay Lawrence, book review, ‘Textile: Journal of Cloth & Culture’, Vol 13, Issue 1, 2015 |
2011 | ‘The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the making of the Feminine’, Kay Lawrence, book review International Journal of Education through Art, Vol 7, No 2 |
Selected Conference Addresses & Public Lectures
2010-2011 | ‘Making the Parliament House Embroidery’ Kay Lawrence, Australian Fine & Decorative Arts Society lecture tour, Adelaide, Armidale, Albury, Canberra |
2010 | 'A Woman’s place is in the House: The Women’s Suffrage Community Tapestries’ Kay Lawrence, Australian Fine & Decorative Arts Society, Melbourne |
2009 | ‘Stories of Loss and Connection’, Arizona University School of Art, Tucson, Arizona |
2007 | ‘Critical difference: cultural diversity and regionality’ Kay Lawrence and Pamela Zeplin, ACUADS annual conference, College of Fine Art, Uni NSW, Sydney |
2006 | ‘Listening and talking back, Intercultural collaboration in Weaving the Murray’, Kay Lawrence, refereed conference paper, Migratory Practices conference Manchester University UK. |
2006 | ‘A Story is like a River: Weaving the Murray’ Kay Lawrence and Nici Cumpston, Selling Yarns: Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st Century, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin, Aug 13/14 |
2004 | ‘Weaving the Murray: Mapping Connection and Loss’ Kay Lawrence Challenging Craft Conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland |
2002 | ‘Weaving, an encounter between the Ngarrindjeri, the British and the French’, Kay Lawrence, Encounter lecture series, University of South Australia & Keynote Address, Fabric(ations) of the Postcolonial, international textile conference, Wollongong University, |
2001 | ‘Home is where the Heart is’, seminar accompanying exhibition, UniSA Art Museum, Adelaide |
2000 | ‘Lake Mungo Revisited’, seminar accompanying exhibition, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, Oct 2000 |
2000 | ‘A narrative of loss’ Kay Lawrence, Life Stories conference Monash Uni July 14-16 |
1999 | Keynote Address, Kay Lawrence, SALA week, AGSA,Adelaide |
1999 | 'Practice' Kay Lawrence, Close Ties conference University of Queensland, March 27 |
1998 | ‘Four stories about loss, Textiles and cultural identity’ Kay Lawrence, Postgraduate Seminar, COFA Uni NSW & Forum Lecture, Canberra School of Art, ANU |
1998 | ‘Loss and reconciliation: Contemporary Australian Textiles, Landscape and Identity’ Kay Lawrence, keynote address Felt-extensions conference Oct 2, Adelaide |
1998 | ‘Reading and Weaving’, Kay Lawrence, keynote address Shift conference July 10,11,12 Canberra School of Art, ANU, Canberra |
Selected Bibliography
| 2017 | Jude Adams, Sera Waters, From There to Here, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia |
| 2013 | Pamille Berg, Interwoven: The Commissioned Art and Craft for Parliament House, The Commonwealth of Australia |
| 2011 | Dr Kirsty Darlaston, Kay Lawrence: Garlands of String, Match Studio, University of South Australia |
| 2011 | Joanne Soroka, Tapestry Weaving: Design and Technique, Crowood Press, 2011 |
| 2010 | Christopher B. Daniels, John Hodgson, Barbara Hardy (eds)‘ This everything water’, Adelaide: Water of a City, Wakefield Press, SA |
| 2007 | Margaret Baguley ‘Partnership or Perish? A Study of Artistic Collaborations’ PhD Thesis, University of Tasmania, https://eprints.utas.edu.au/6174/ |
| 2002 | Diana Wood Conroy, Kay Lawrence, Portfolio Collection No 9 Telos Art Publishing UK 2000 Cath Keneally, ‘Gender, identity and place in the textile works of Kay Lawrence’ Object 1/00 |
| 2000 | Beth Hatton, ‘A Weaving Life’ Textile Fibre Forum, no 58 |
| 1999 | Ruth MacDougall, Close Ties: Kay Lawrence & Marcel Marois, University of Queensland Art Museum |
| 1997 | Noris Ioannou, Masters of their Craft, Craftsmans Press, 1997 |
| 1995 | Sue Rowley, Crossing Borders Australian Contemporary Textile Art, University of Wollongong |
| 1994 | Diana Wood Conroy, Texts from the Edge, Tapestry & Identity, JamFactory Adelaide |
| 1992 | Diana Wood Conroy ‘Context & Images, Kay Lawrence, Tapestry "House/Self" considered as an artifact’ (ed) Bob Thompson, Forceps of Language |
| 1992 | Grace Cochrane, The Craft Movement in Australia, Uni NSW Press |
| 1989 | Noris Ioannou, The Culture Brokers, towards a Redefinition of Australian Contemporary Craft, State Publishing, S.A. |
| 1988 | Shirley Cameron Wilson (ed) Alison M. Dolling From Shadow into Light. South Australian Women Artists Since Colonisation |
| 1988 | World Tapestry Today catalogue, American Tapestry Alliance, |
| 1988 | Anne Brennan, ‘Kay Lawrence, A Public Commission Case Study’, Broadsheet, Contemporary Art Centre |
| 1988 | Desmond MacAulay, Spirit and Places, Artworks on Commonwealth Properties in Australia and Overseas, published by Australian Council and Australian Construction Services |
| 1988 | Kathie Muir, Two Thousand Bobbins; Community Tapestry in Australia, exhibition catalogue, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, |
| 1984 | Peter Ward ‘Our Story – Embroidered’, interview with Kay Lawrence, The Weekend Australian, August, 1984 |
| 1984 | Lynn Collins, ‘Order & Structure, an interview with Kay Lawrence’, S.A. Crafts |
| 1983 | Diana Conroy, ‘Kay Lawrence and Polly Hope’, Craft NSW, February, 1983 |
| 1982 | Garry Benson, ‘Kay Lawrence’, Craft Australia, autumn |
| 1981 | Peter Ward, ‘Art’, The Australian, June |
Electronic Media
| 2000 | Kay Lawrence and Gerry Wedd, Video Insights 3, produced by the Artists in Schools Committee for South Australian Living Artists Week, |
| 1990 | The Child's World, ABC Television Series. |
| 1989 | The Makers, Craft in Australia, ABC Television Series. |
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Museum and Art and Art Gallery, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tamworth Art Gallery, Ararat Art Gallery, Parliament House Canberra, Parliament House Adelaide, University of South Australia, private collections
