Laura Wilson (b. Belfast, Northern Ireland, lives & works in London) is interested in how history is carried and evolved through everyday materials, trades and craftsmanship. She works with specialists to develop sculptural and performative works that amplify the relationship between materiality, memory and tacit knowledge.
Wilson’s interdisciplinary and research-based works have been exhibited widely including at 5th Istanbul Design Biennial and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery (2020); V&A, London (2019); The British Museum, London, UK with Block Universe; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK; and The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, UK (2018); SPACE, London; and Invisible Dust with Hull City of Culture (2017); Delfina Foundation (2016 & 17) and Site Gallery, Sheffield UK (2016).
Her project Trained on Veda, a malted loaf and evolving artwork was initiated during her residency at Delfina Foundation in 2016 is currently being developed in partnership with TACO, Grand Union, Site Gallery and MIMA, supported by Arts Council England.
She has recently been awarded the Jerwood New Work Fund and an A-N Bursary for new work in 2021, and has a forthcoming coming commission with Mansions of the Future and The Collection, Lincoln.