Annemarie Lazdauskaite is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice uses Australian native botanicals as both material and metaphor. Working primarily with dried and preserved florals, she approaches botanical form as a sculptural language through which ideas of memory, identity, and continuity are explored. Her work is grounded in Australian soil, yet expansive in its cultural and symbolic reach.

Central to Annemarie’s practice is the process of preservation. By allowing native florals to move naturally from vitality to stillness, she highlights transformation as an inherent and meaningful part of life. As flowers dry, their lush forms give way to skeletal lines, negative space, and quiet structure. Rather than loss, this transition becomes an act of care and attention, revealing beauty across the entire life cycle. Preservation, in her work, is not a technical outcome but an ethical and emotional one: an acknowledgment of longevity, remembrance, and the passage of time.

Symbolism plays a vital role in her approach. Annemarie is interested in moments that mark our lives, weddings, funerals, unions, and farewells, and the way material choices can hold personal meaning within these transitions. She rejects spectacle in favour of intention, creating works that act as visual testimonies to relationships, values, and lived experience. Each piece is guided by story rather than decoration, inviting reflection rather than display.

While deeply rooted in Australian native materials, her practice is informed by cultural curiosity and respect. Annemarie views Australia’s position as an island continent as an opportunity to learn from and honour floral traditions from around the world. Global techniques and influences are thoughtfully adapted and integrated, always in dialogue with local materials, resulting in works that feel grounded yet open, intimate yet timeless.

The name Solis, meaning sun, reflects the core philosophy of her work. The sun, as a symbol of life, warmth, cycles, and return, mirrors the rhythms present in both nature and human experience. Through her sculptural floral works, Annemarie honours beginnings, endings, and everything in between, offering quiet, enduring reflections on care, memory, and belonging.