Lawrence Carroll was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1954. He lives and works in Los Angeles and Venice.
Before becoming works of art, the objects that the artist uses are everyday, worn-out, long-lived ones. Carroll takes us to a conceptual but not cold kind of painting, with typical persuasion of the old grace of the great Italian Renaissance painting, through his artistic gesture, which is extremely placid and calm, a sign of an accurate and meditated conception of the world, intimate and highly intense but very familiar.
The objects - mainly cloth or fabric but also wood and boxes - are treated with monochromatic paint and wax on thick wooden panels, thus showing the traces of time on the surface. Moreover, the way of installing his works of art takes us to their intimate and human value: hung from walls but at a low height, against the wall or on the floor, thus sharing with the audience the physical space.

Carroll's works are part of important private collections and public institutions all over the world, such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, the Städtische Kunsthalle in Mannheim, the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart and the Giuseppe Panza di Biumo Collection. In 2002, Carroll participated in the exhibition entitled Le stanze dell’arte, presented by the MART in Rovereto and, in 2003, he exhibited his works - together with Kounellis and Cragg - at the Centro Cultural Palaires in Mallorca, Spain. Some works by Lawrence Carroll are currently on show in the important retrospective show celebrating the fiftieth edition of the Documenta in Kassel, in an exhibition entitled “50 Years of Documenta 1955-2005”, curated by Michael Glasmeier

Carroll's relationship with Galleria Fumagalli began in 2004 with the presentation of a work of art in the exhibition AAVV:30. By October 2005, a solo exhibition will be presented by the gallery and an exhaustive volume - containing his works, from the first ones to the most recent ones - will be published.