‘I grow’, Arts Council DYCP Funding, Ryde 2021 - 2022
Funded by the Arts Council England Developing your Creative Practice Fund, ‘I grow’ developed over a year, fulfilling a period of unrestricted time and space experimenting with paint and glass.
During this time Laura explored and refined the process of painting on and layering glass to create three dimensional paintings. Painting directly onto glass surfaces with her hands and finger tips, Laura explored repeating shapes, whilst capturing feelings and movements as she pressed and smeared paint onto the glass surfaces.
These painted surfaces and patterns were then layered to create finished forms and the body of work ‘I grow’.
Photography Julian Winslow @julian_winslow
‘Ten’ Ryde Arts residency and bursary located at the ‘Department’, Ryde 2022
The window with a bus stop running alongside, in the heart of Ryde town, is by its nature public facing and the residency was designed to expose the process of creative development in a public setting. Throwing, smearing and smoothing globules of black paint, Laura’s residency time was used as a performance and installation space.
After painting several shapes, Laura settled on a circular cell like form. Painting repeatedly throughout each day, ten wet paintings could fill the floor space at a time and so, the painting performance would last as long as it took to create the ten paintings. Passers by would stop and observe throughout the painting session whilst Laura, using physical actions of throwing and smearing paint with her hands, transformed the paper surfaces.
The installation ‘Ten’ subsequently evolved and developed from hanging each paper form as it was painted, on all available surfaces. Culminating in a full floor to ceiling window of paint splattered black circular forms ‘Ten’.
Photography Maria Bell @mariabellphoto
‘600’ an installation commissioned by ARCH Window Gallery 2021
Made up of more than six-hundred ink paintings, each piece captures Laura’s fingerprint dragged through water and ink onto paper. The process of making was a meditative exploration, a simple repeat shape repeated over and over onto each leaf of paper.
‘600’ evolved as pieces adorned the walls and floor, paper and ink interacting with the surrounding street. The environment became equal to the paintings themselves. Buildings reflected into the space multiplying each piece, creating a somewhat endless repeating pattern. Shadows of people passing by penetrated the surfaces and the ever-changing light of day and night shifted shapes and movement throughout.
Photography Julian Winslow @julian_winslow
