Examining what it means to be a body in an unstable world and how this might be responded to through alternate cosmologies, Laura Robertson uses installation, sculpture and events as a means of embracing the incomprehensible and staging alternatives outside popular paradigms. Bodies, Sphinx icons and meme culture are blended into prop like forms, characters and costumes; allowing for multiple people and objects to overlap as protagonists of the same story.
Currently undertaking a series that uses the fluidity of geology as a stand in to challenge wider ideas such as monumentalism and hierarchical structures Robertson is collaborating with other artists — culminating, amongst other things, in a limited edition work funded by The Poorhouse Reading Rooms, Dorset and an exhibition supported by The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington.
Robertson worked with the Freud Museum for solo project, a-visit-through-the-window in 2020 and exhibited at the Royal Society of Sculptors for Space Lapse, 2021. In 2022 the artist created alLwhoopee, for Gallery333 at Exeter Phoenix Gallery and organised Undercut, a British Art Show fringe event in Plymouth.
C O N T A C T
Studio10, KARST, Plymouth, UK
︎ laura.robertson@network.rca.ac.uk
︎ laurarobertsonart
S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S
2023
Stella’s Ground Clouds, Billboard Poster at Exeter Phoenix, 24th Nov - 4th Feb 2024
Under / Over, G12 Gallery, Krowji, Redruth, Cornwall, 7th July - 22nd Oct
Thelma Hulbert Gallery Open, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, 2 Sep - 28 Oct
the foot sinks into it, The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington, 15 Jul - 26 Aug
Underland Passages, Exeter’s Underground Passages, Exeter, 13 - 18 Jun
2022
Quidsmas, Under (KARST studios), Plymouth, 17 Dec
Lost-Wax for Lost-Species, curated by Abigail Burt, The Take Courage Gallery, London, 27 Nov
Undercut, BAS9 Fringe exhibition, Under (KARST studios), Plymouth, 6 - 22 Oct
alLwhoppee, Gallery 333, Exeter Pheonix, Exeter, 9 Jul - 4 Sep
Unstable Monuments, Old Magistrates Court, Bristol, 8 - 10 Apr
Lost-Wax for Lost-Species, curated by Abigail Burt, Fishers Court Gallery, London, 3 - 11 Mar
Lost-Wax for Lost-Species, curated by Abigail Burt, Vittoria Street Gallery, Birmingham, 24 Jan - 18 Feb
2021
Lost-Wax for Lost-Species, curated by Abigail Burt, Founders Hall, London
Space Lapse, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
2020
A-visit-through-the-window, Freud Museum; https://www.freud.org.uk/2020/07/07/a-visit-through-the-window/
RCA2020; https://2020.rca.ac.uk/students/laura-robertson
Situationist Brieze, global online event
The Shop Front, curated by Lizzie Cardozo, 286 Caledonian Road, London
Mushrooms in the Dark, SituationistRCA event, Dulwich Constitutional Club, London
2019
Priority Rule, Merziety collaborative exhibition, RCA, London
Marketing Suite, Assembly point, London
Marketing Suite, Filet Space, London
Zoo Keepers, Hockney Gallery, London
2018
[ ] White [City] Cube [ ] curated by Mina Song, White City Place, London
R E S I D E N C I E S
2023
The Poor House Reading Rooms, Dorset, 5th - 8th May
2020
Freud Museum; iObject, London, 2nd - 17th March
2019
Filet Space; Marketing Suite, London
2013
Surface Arts Residency, Chiang Mai, Thailand
E D U C A T I O N
Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture
University of the West of England, BA Hons Fine Art
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