Simon Lawrie is a Melbourne-based curator, writer and consultant with extensive experience in sculpture and spatial practice, public art commissions, and site-responsive projects. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting (2005) and a Master of Art Curatorship at University of Melbourne (2015).

His approach often aims to articulate and augment the experience of place, working closely with artists across sculpture, sound, installation, film, and performance to explore tensions between integration and intervention within a given context.

Lawrie has curated, co-curated and project-managed over 25 exhibitions and 20 commissions, including Current: Gail Mabo, Lisa Waup, Dominic White (2023); and Site and Sound: sonic art as ecological practice (2021). He is currently curating the Lorne Sculpture Biennale and undertaking the Helsinki International Artist Program residency in 2025.

He has managed large-scale sculpture commissions on major roadways, developed artist residency programs, worked closely with a range of public and private stakeholders including First Nations artists and communities, and has edited and written for numerous publications on contemporary art and sculpture.