Lara has over ten years’ experience working in the visual arts across diverse sectors such as non-for-profit, local council, University and independently run museums and galleries. She holds particular interest in contemporary art, design, ceramics and photography. Lara also has extensive experience collaborating with arts festivals, exhibitions and projects around Australia and internationally including curatorial residencies in Peru, Argentina and Colombia and Berlin.

In 2019 she was selected as an Exhibitions Team Leader at the Australia Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale. In the same year she received the Cross Family fellowship for overseas professional development, administered by the Australia Council for the Arts. Currently she is Curator at Snøhetta, Australasia. Previously she has held positions such as Curator at SAM; Shepparton Art Museum (VIC), Assistant Curator at JamFactory: Art, Craft + Design (SA), and Manager and Curator at SAVVY Contemporary; Berlin.

Lara holds a Graduate Certificate in Art History and Curatorial Studies from the University of Adelaide (2018), a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons.) specialising in Photography from the University of South Australia (2008), an Associate degree in Languages and Cultural studies from University of South Australia, and a certificate of Exhibition Design from NODE centre for curatorial studies, Berlin (2017).