Lot 44 - Laura White - Disobedient Bodies 3

Alkahol ink on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Victoria Lucas

About

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 ink, 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.

Education

MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London. 2004.
MA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham. 1997
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture. Loughborough University School of Art and Design.1990

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Phoenix Art Space. Brighton, UK.
2024
Laura White, Table Baroque. Part of Subject Platter at CORNER7, London.UK.
2022
Pollute Volute, Laura White. HS Projects, 5 Howick Place, Victoria, London. UK.
2019
The Clever Girl Painter. Tintype, London.UK.
Laura White: The Esque Collection, The Dean’s Chapel, Worcester Cathedral. Part of The Precious Clay: Porcelain in contemporary art, at Museum of Royal Worcester. UK.
2017
Double agents and great refusers. theAgency Gallery London, UK
2013
The MALAHITE Room. Gallery Cadaqués, Cadaqués, Spain.
2012/13
We Can Have It All. SPACEX, Exeter, UK.
2011
For living, for loving, for loathing. Pollen, Monflanquin, France.
2010/11
Anxious Glory. Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2009
Chromodomo: Laura White. Scratching Walls and Sticky Décor. The Wall House #2, Groningen, Netherlands.
If I had a monkey I wouldn’t need a TV – Part 2. Carter Presents, London. Exhibition and Book Launch. (Pub. Laura White: The Stuff of Images.)

Group Exhibitions

2024-25
Earthbound. New Art Gallery Walsall. UK.
2025
Kneaded long and Vigorously. Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy.
Touch Not Touch. Cross Lane Projects, Vestry Street, London. UK
2024
The Thick of Things. APT London.
SOTTOBOSCO. Vivienne Roberts Projects. The Bindery, London UK
Floating World: Inside of the Outside. White Conduit Projects, London. UK
2023/24
Carnevale. Vivienne Roberts Projects. The Bindery, London. UK 7
2023
Don’t Look Back. Vivienne Roberts Projects. The Bindery, London. UK.
Soft Monuments. Frestonian Gallery, London.UK.
Spazi Aperti, Academy di Romania in Roma. Italy.
On the meaning of Gossip, British School at Rome. Italy.
Rome, a portrait. Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes 2023.Pallazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. Italy.
A Little Closer. Aleph Contemporary. The Bindery, Hatton Gardens, London. UK.
CUBITT Viewing Room, Cubitt Gallery, London. UK.
Cubitt 30 at Victoria Miro, London.UK.
Regeneration. Informality, Henley on Thames. UK.

Awards

2022 –23
Ampersand Foundation Fellowship. British School at Rome. Italy.

Public Collections

2013
Collection Olor Visual, Barcelona, Spain

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

Laura collaborates with the materials she uses. In these works she allows the inks and alcohol on the paper to move around until they sit and stabilize. She is Interested in materials that are difficult to control and require a collaborative approach. For these drawings she pours ink and alcohol onto surfaces and uses her breathe to spread the material.