Laura Wilson (born in Belfast ) makes sculpture, installations, drawings, video and performances. The process by which she gets from one point to another is highly important in her work, and is something which drives her practice, seeing it both as a method for making and as a product in its own right. Laura tends to work with an object, event or situation and play with it until finding a resolution; it is this confluence with the unknown that she finds exciting. The end result can often appear understated, possessing a subtle aesthetic, but it is the process of accumulation, building up and then the stripping down to the main components that is important.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Header Stretcher Soldier Sailor Shiner Rowlock, Vitrine Gallery, London
2010 Preludes and Nocturnes, New Dalston Library, London
2010 Horse of a different colour, Siobhan Davies Studios, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Bedtime Duologues im Winter, Former Mattress-factory Devis, Mechelen
2011 Rehearsal for a Roadtrip, The Agency, london
2011 Field Trip, Field Broadcast, DIGITAL HYBRIDITY
2010 Gesamtkunstwerk 2012: Debut Salon Show, The Hackney Rose, London
2010 Microperformances, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2010 Field Broadcast, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2010 Microperformances at the Agency, Agency Gallery, London
2010 Who’s afraid of the Museum? Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen
2009 Belgian Paradise, Studio Carvalho, London
2009 Publish & be damned, Subvision Festival, Hamburg
2009 Show Flat Annual, Show Flat, London (www.showflat.org.uk)
2009 Massive, Supine Studios, London
2009 Publish & be damned @ Late at Tate, curated by Kit Hammonds, Tate Britain, London
2008 Brief Encounter, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool
2008 Destination: London, Working Rooms, London
2008 Scene in the Making, Nicholls and Clarke building as part of Concrete & Glass, London
2008 Zero de Conduit, Elevator Gallery, London
2008 High Rise Cinema, Big in Falkirk, Scotland
2008 Unexpected item in the bagging area, Guy Hilton Gallery at the Sun & Doves, London
2008 Play with words, Sainsbury Centre of Visual Art, Norwich
2007 On site Lab Workshop: Series 2, Tokyo Wonder site, Tokyo
2007 1st Ikkyou Tanjoubi, Gallery Yujiro, London
2007 Peer Esteem, Five Years, London
2007 Endgames, Truck, Calgary, Canada
2007 Learningtoloveyoumore, MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2007 Ename Actueel 2007: Foundation, Ename, Belgium
2007 On Trust, Campbell Works, London
2007 Work from the Contemporary Collection, Lethaby Gallery, London
2007 You Can Lead a Horse to Water, Alma Enterprises, London
2006 There is something I’ve been meaning to tell you, Space Station Sixty-Five, London
2006 Sixty-Seven, South London Gallery, London
2006 Undergraduate Direction 2006, Lethaby Gallery, London
2005 Geisterfahrer, Paint Works, Bristol
2005 Just Visiting, Camberwell Arts Festival, London
2004 Perspective 2004, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2004 Living London, London Institute Gallery, John Princes Street
ARTIST TALKS & DISCUSSIONS
2010 Field Broadcast, Wysing Arts Centre
2010 In conversation with Jefford Horrigan, Siobhan Davies Studios
2009 Foamshrimp, Lee Campbell Projects
2008 University of Calgary
2007 Central Saint Martins (Ename)
2007 Gallery Yujiro, Polystyrene Cup Collection
2007 Campbell Works, On Trust panel discussion chaired by Richard Wentworth
AWARDS
Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship 2010/11
Royal Society of Arts Fellow
RESIDENCIES
Interrarium 08 Residency, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, January 2008
Shining Cliff Residency, My House Projects, Derbyshire, February 2007
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2010 Who’s afraid of the museum?, Exhibition catalogue, for exhibition at Museum Hof van Busleyden, Stedelijke Musea Mechelen
2007 Ename Actueel: Foundation, produced by Ename Provinciaal Archeologishch Museum
2007 On Trust, publication produced by Campbell Works
2004 Perspective 2004 Catalogue, produced by Ormeau Baths Gallery
COLLECTIONS
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
