Born in Cardiff 1961 Laura Ford studied at Bath Academy of Art from 1978-82 and at Chelsea School of Art from 1982-83. She was included in the British Art Show 5, 2000 and represented Wales in the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005.

While still a student, she participated in the 1983 survey exhibition, The Sculpture Show at The Serpentine and Hayward Galleries alongside artists including, Richard Wentworth, Tony Cragg, David Nash and many of her tutors. 27 years later she participated in The British Art Show 5 alongside a new array of British artists that included Phyllida Barlow, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy and Susan Hiller, Tracy Emin and Sarah Lucas.

Solo shows include Squatters at Castell Coch (TEN. x CADW), Camden Arts Centre, Arnolfini, Bristol, the Royal Scottish Academy and Turner Contemporary, Margate, touring to the Economist Plaza in 2007. Her work is represented in many public collections including; Tate, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Government Art Collection, Potteries Museum, National Museums and Gallery of Wales; Museum of Modern Art, University of Iowa; Arts Council of Great Britain; Contemporary Art Society; Unilever plc; Penguin Books; Oldham Art Gallery, The New Art Gallery Walsall, The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, The Meijier Gardens, Grand Rapids USA and The Gateway Foundation, St. Louis, as well as numerous private collections.

I spent my childhood in the intense, hermetic world of the travelling showman community. My family had a fixation with collectable ceramic ornaments, filling their homes and caravans with figurines – romantic, pastoral scenes, so different from our chaotic lives. On the shooters and booths too, the prizes were little plaster ornaments: boys, girls, animals, frozen in time. While my family worked the amusement arcade and bingo, I found escape in these objects, taking them down, arranging them, watching relationships emerge between them, inventing the sometimes sinister, sometimes funny stories that connected them. It’s that same sense of eerie serendipity and quiet menace that I’ve drawn on in this new body of ceramic sculptures’ - Laura Ford

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