Laura Ford // Profile
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Laura Ford was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1961.She was the recipient of an SSW Research Residency in 2004, and further support to develop the ideas resulting from the residency during 2005.
The resulting project, 'Armour Boys' will be presented as a new installation at The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, in August 2006. www.royalscottishacademy.org
An accompanying catalogue, with essay by Duncan McLaren will be available from mid August, and has been funded by The Henry Moore Foundation.
Armour Boys will tour to The New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury in September 2006.
Laura is represented by Houldsworth gallery and lives and works in London.
Artist's CV
Study1978-82
Bath Academy of Art
1982 -83
Chelsea School of Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Camden Arts Centre, London 1998
Arnolfini Bristol 1999
Centre of Contemporary Art, Salamanca, Spain 2002
‘Wreckers’ at both Beaconsfield and Houldsworth Galleries, London 2004
Recent Group Exhibitions
‘Into my world: Recent British Sculpture’, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut, USA
‘Artists Favourites’, ICA, London 2004
‘Disguise’, Manchester City Art Gallery 2004
‘Engineer’, Beaconsfield Gallery, London 2003
Selected Collections
The Tate, London, The Arts Council; Contemporary Arts Society; Government Art Collection; New Art Gallery,Walsall; Miami Art Museum, USA.
She represented Wales at the Venice Biennale 2005