CONTACT
laurawil@gmail.comABOUT
The process by which I get from one point to another is highly important in my work, and is something which drives my practice, I see it both as a method for making and as a product in its own right. I tend to work with an object, event or situation and play with it until I find a resolution; it is this confluence with the unknown that I find 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.
I want to bring the everyday into visibility, and for the viewer to pay attention to things that they frequently ignore. Site-specificity and its dialogue with architecture is something that informs my practice; I love reading about history and history’s relationship to architecture – how it has been formed and shaped over time. Exploring notions of construction, demolition and the re-use of building elements both in terms of the materials that I am using and in the recontextualisation of actions and everyday events forms a kind of cyclic archaeology.
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EDUCATION
2003 – 2006 BA (Hons) Fine Art (First class Honours) Central Saint Martins, London
AWARDS
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship 2010 – 2011
Royal Society of Art Fellowshop
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Header Stretcher Soldier Sailor Shiner Rowlock , Vitrine Gallery, London, UK curated by Alexandra MacGilp
2010
Preludes and Nocturnes , New Dalston Library, London, UK curated by Rose Lejeune
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Tweespoor: Kunstparcours , De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium (forthcoming, March 2012) (cat.)
Climb like a cucmber, fall like an aubergine , W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
Portrait of Space , Clonlea Studios, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Rose Lejeune and Teresa Gillespie
#4, Fort Gallery, London, UK
Bedtime Duologues im Winter , Former Mattress Factory Devis, Mechelen, Belgium
2010
Coup de Ville Sint Niklaas, Belgium curated by Stef Van Bellingen and Jan Hoet (cat.)
Field Broadcast, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
Who’s afraid of the Museum, Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen
2009
Publish & be damned , Subvision Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London, UK
2008
Brief Encounter, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool, UK
Scene in the Making, Nicholls and Clarke building as part of Concrete & Glass, London, UK
High Rise Cinema, Big in Falkirk, Scotland, UK
Play with words, Sainsbury Centre of Visual Art, Norwich, UK
2007
On site Lab Workshop, Tokyo Wonder site, Tokyo, Japan
Endgames, Truck, Calgary, Canada
Ename Actueel 2007, Ename, Belgium curated by Stef Van Bellingen & Michele dewilde (cat.)
On Trust, Campbell Works, London UK curated by Claire Nichols
Grandfather Clock, Artist Page for Art Vehicle (online)
2006
Sixty-Seven, South London Gallery, London, UK
There is something I've been meaning to tell you, Space Station Sixty-Five, London, UK
2005
Geisterfahrer, Paint Works, Bristol UK
Just Visiting, Camberwell Arts Festival, London UK
2004
Perspective 2004, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast UK
RESIDENCIES
Interrarium 08 Residency, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, January 2008
Shining Cliff Residency, My House Projects, Derbyshire, February 2007
ARTIST TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS
Field Broadcast, Wysing Arts Centre, May 2010
In conversation with Jefford Horrigan, Siobhan Davies Studios, February 2010
Foamshrimp, Lee Campbell Projects, July 2009
University of Calgary, January 2008
Central Saint Martins (Ename) November 2007
Gallery Yujiro, Polystyrene Cup Collection, January 2007
Campbell Works, On Trust panel discussion chaired by Richard Wentworth, May 2007
SELECTED PRESS
Video interview for expert section on Recreative website, (www.recreative.com - website created by South London Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Britain and Royal Academy of Arts) May 2011
The brick factory with no walls, Artvehicle 54, Alexandra MacGilp. March 2011
Turbulences Video 68, July 2010
London Festival of Architecture gets underway, London–SE1.co.uk, June 2010
Horse of a different colour, Artvehicle 50, Lee Campbell. May 2010
Laura Wilson: Horse of a different colour, Building Design, Oliver Basciano. February 2010
Interview with Laura Wilson, Artvehicle 48, Franck Bordese. February 2010
Choreographed opening and closing of curtains at Elephant & Castle, London–SE1.co.uk, January 2010
What to see:Lyn Gardner's tips, The Guardian, January 2010
Calgary Exhibitions of the year, Akimbo, Sarah Adams-Bacon, September 2007
Belfast: Perspective 2004 at Ormeau baths Gallery, Cristin Leach, CIRCA 110. Winter 2004
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Coup de Ville, published by WARP Contemporary Art Platform, Sint Niklaas, Belgium, 2011
Who’s afraid of the Museum? Exhibition catalogue, for exhibition at Museum Hof van Busleyden, Stefelijke Musea, Mechelen, 2010
Emame Actueel: Foundation, produced by Provinciaal Archeologishch Museum, Ename, 2007
On Trust, publication produced by Campbell Works, 2007
Central Saint Martins Degree Show Catalogue, 2006, produced by Central Saint Martins
Perspective 2004 Catalogue, produced by Ormeau Baths Gallery
COLLECTIONS
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London