Lauren Lysaght 

Lysaght was born and raised in Tauranga, attending Greerton Primary School and later Tauranga Girls' College. She is a self-taught artist who works in a non-traditional style, using everyday, budget materials to create provocative works that direct attention to significant personal issues, and social injustices including disability, aging, poverty and mental illness.

Lysaght is one of New Zealand's foremost social conscience artists and has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and internationally since the early 1980s. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Chartwell Collection.