Lara Chapman is a writer, editor and curator based in Sydney.
As a freelance writer Lara covers design, architecture, technology and exhibitions, often exploring how these areas intersect with the climate crisis. Her work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian Australia, The Architectural Review, The Sydney Review of Books, Disegno, DAMN, UNION, Art Collector and Real Life, among other publications.
As an editor, copywriter and/or research consultant, Lara has collaborated with local and international studios and organisations, including Design Academy Eindhoven, the Design Museum, KABK Design Lectorate and SOKEI.
So far in 2026, Lara has undertaken a residency at Bundanon Art Museum, co-organised and co-hosted the Nothing New Tournament at Melbourne Design Week and continues teaching at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) alongside her writing practice.
Before moving home to Australia in 2024, Lara had been working and living in London and Eindhoven for about twelve years. Lara was assistant editor at Disegno, working across the print publications, digital publishing and podcasting. She was assistant curator and associate touring curator at the Design Museum where she helped to develop and tour critically acclaimed exhibitions such as Waste Age: What can design do? and Yinka Ilori: Parables for Happiness. While completing her MA at Design Academy Eindhoven (2017-19) Lara was web editor of TLMag.
Lara’s independent curatorial projects have been shown at the V&A, Dutch Design Week and the Embassy of Internet and other spaces. She has delivered lectures to design students at Kingston University, Design Academy Eindhoven and the University of London.
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I acknowledge and pay respect to the Gadigal, Bidjigal and Birrabirragal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which I work and live. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.