Meet the Artist: Lauren Bickerdike
Lauren Bickerdike at ADMIRALS RESIDENCE in collaboration with artists: Alicia Blam • Athenkosi Kwinana
Based in Limerick, Ireland, Lauren is a multimedia artist working across photography, sound, and installation. Her work explores how environments — social, political, ecological — leave echoes in the human body.
“I’m interested in the residue. What remains. The sounds that linger after a place has been left.”
During her time at The ADMIRALS RESIDENCE, Lauren has wandered — with her field recorder, with a half-packed camera bag, with a kind of open-hearted precision. Her questions are often indirect. What do tidal rhythms say about grief? How does infrastructure interrupt community joy? What does it mean to document a coastline that’s disappearing?
Her previous projects — from Circulation in Nepal to Atlantach in Ireland to her participatory sound works in Cuba — ask not just what we know, but how we know it.
Lauren doesn’t document. She translates.
In the context of Safe Spaces, her role has been Chief Sonic Cartographer — tracing the undercurrent of place through recorded conversational portraits, ambient noise, and field audio. The result isn’t a map. It’s a vibration.
You’ll hear it before you understand it.
Location: 64 Windermere Road, Muizenberg. Date: 13 August 2025 Time: 17:00 – 20:00 Come as witness, guest, or participant. There is space for you here.
Meet the Artist: Lauren Bickerdike
Lauren Bickerdike at ADMIRALS RESIDENCE in collaboration with artists: Alicia Blam • Athenkosi Kwinana
Based in Limerick, Ireland, Lauren is a multimedia artist working across photography, sound, and installation. Her work explores how environments — social, political, ecological — leave echoes in the human body.
“I’m interested in the residue. What remains. The sounds that linger after a place has been left.”
During her time at The ADMIRALS RESIDENCE, Lauren has wandered — with her field recorder, with a half-packed camera bag, with a kind of open-hearted precision. Her questions are often indirect. What do tidal rhythms say about grief? How does infrastructure interrupt community joy? What does it mean to document a coastline that’s disappearing?
Her previous projects — from Circulation in Nepal to Atlantach in Ireland to her participatory sound works in Cuba — ask not just what we know, but how we know it.
Lauren doesn’t document. She translates.
In the context of Safe Spaces, her role has been Chief Sonic Cartographer — tracing the undercurrent of place through recorded conversational portraits, ambient noise, and field audio. The result isn’t a map. It’s a vibration.
You’ll hear it before you understand it.
Location: 64 Windermere Road, Muizenberg. Date: 13 August 2025 Time: 17:00 – 20:00 Come as witness, guest, or participant. There is space for you here.
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