Lara Kittel is a South Australian Based artist, whose paintings respond to tourism in the Australian rural 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.

With a background in Marketing, Kittel 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.

‘When I am not painting, I work as a Marketing Assistant for a four-wheel driving company. This provides me a front seat into observing the ways in which landscapes are developed into a marketable commodity. For example, in the case of packaged tours, or through representations on Instagram whereby travel becomes a contest to ‘conquer the land’’ - Lara Kittel