2002-2004, MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
1987-1990, BA Fine Art: Sculpture. Loughborough University School of Art and Design.
Laura White is a London based artist. Her practice is interdisciplinary - STUDIO BASED WORK: sculpture, drawing and photography, WRITING: on material encounters with the world of stuff and FIELDWORK: workshops exploring materiality as participant and educator.
Laura focuses on process and how objects/things come into being, with an emphasis on the handling of materials, from stable material such as ceramics and concrete to the changeable matter of clay, bread dough, silicone rubber and rusting metal. Exploring and responding to material behaviours and her personal relationships to them, alongside their historical and social contexts. It is important for her to be led by her materials and to collaborate with them, rather than imposing herself on them. Exposed to the breaks, mistakes and failures of materials to open up new directions and possibilities.
Recent exhibitions include: Rome, a portrait. Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes 2023. Pallazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. 2023, Don’t Look Back. Vivienne Roberts Projects. The Bindery, 2023, Pollute Volute, Laura White. HS Projects, London. 2022, Skewed Logic. Coleman Projects, London 2021, MASS. Saatchi Gallery, London. 2021.The Clever Girl Painter. Tintype, London. 2019, The Precious Clay: Porcelain in Contemporary Art. Museum of Royal Worcester. 2018-19, As Much About Forgetting. Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark, 2018 and Double agents and great refusers. The Agency Gallery London, 2017.
Recent Commissions: No1 Station Approach, Hereford, Meadow Arts 2024, and Hereford Public Art Trail Commission. Meadow Arts. 2024.
Recent Awards: Ampersand Foundation Fellowship
http://www.laura-white.co.uk
http://www.tenderfoot.co.uk
