LAURA FORD

Mae cerfluniau Laura Ford yn gynrychioliadau ffyddlon o ffantasi gyda rhinweddau chwerw-felys a bygythiol weithiau wedi'u cymysgu â thynerwch. Mae hi'n defnyddio hiwmor ac arsylwi craff ar gyflwr dynol i ymgysylltu â materion cymdeithasol a gwleidyddol ehangach
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Laura Ford’s sculptures are faithful representations of fantasy with sometimes bitter sweet and menacing qualities mixed with tenderness. She uses humour and an acute observation of the human condition to engage with wider social and political issues.

  • 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

GWEITHIAU CELF • ARTWORKS

  • KIOSK is a dedicated space for editions, objects and publications from both gallery and invited artists.

Hot then Cold & In Between | TEN. | The Coach house | Cardiff

Squatters at Castell Coch | TEN. x CADW | Castell Coch | Cardiff

  • Newyddion diweddaraf am yr artist hwn

    The latest news about this artist

Laura Ford selected for Art For Your Oceans fundraising exhibition for WWF, Image by Christian Sinibaldi

Laura Ford named President of the Royal Society of Sculptors (as of 2022). 

  • Baner • Banner

    Ddwywaith y flwyddyn mae'r oriel yn comisiynu artistiaid, o fewn ac o'r tu allan i'r oriel, i greu baner sy'n chwifio y tu allan i'r oriel.

    Twice a year the gallery commissions artists, from within and outside of the gallery stable, to create a banner which flys outside the gallery.

Gallery Banner Commission, Laura Ford, Little Lord, 2023