Lara Kittel (she/her) is a South Australian-based artist, whose paintings respond to ideas of tourism in rural areas and the attempt to overcome or transcend split subjectivity within the landscape. Growing up in Adelaide and graduating from the Adelaide Central School of Art, Kittel majored in painting and printmaking focusing on figure in landscape.

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With a background in Marketing, Kittel predominately observes the ways in which landscapes are developed into a marketable commodity. Her work unpacks her own feelings of discomfort as she grapples with image making and continues to travel on unceded Kaurna Land and beyond.

After Graduating from the Adelaide Central School of Art in 2022, she travelled to Goondiwindi Queensland, as a finalist in Bush Exchange’s, Heart of the Bush Exhibition, 2023. Kittel was fortunate enough to move to Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island for the month of May 2024 for the A Position on Retreat artist residency. This opportunity broadened her painting practice with the opportunity for En Plein Air painting in the Old-Growth Forests of Avatar Grove.

Kittel has also been successful in becoming a finalist in The Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize 2023 and 2024, in which she was successful in winning the $1,000 Ian Wilding Emerging Artist Prize in 2023. She has also exhibited in multiple group exhibitions including but not limited to; the Adelaide Central School of Art Graduate Exhibition, Wish you Were Here at Central Gallery and The Disconnect at Floating Goose Studios.