Laura Wilson

I am interested in how history is carried and evolved through everyday materials, trades and craftsmanship. I work with specialists to develop sculptural and performative works that amplify the relationship between materiality, memory and tacit knowledge. My interdisciplinary and research-based works have been exhibited nationally and internationally including at: CCA Derry~Londonderry; Istanbul Design Biennial; V&A; British Museum; SPACE; RIBA; Delfina Foundation; Site Gallery; Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery; Whitstable Biennial; Camden Arts Centre; Turner Contemporary. Wilson was the inaugural Kitchen and Garden Artist in Residence at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, part of Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK (2021-23). I am a Research Fellow at the V&A, a Churchill Fellow (2011) and was awarded the Dover Prize 2021. 

I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and live and work in London.

Selected Exhibitions

 2024: Circling, Crown Street Gallery, Darlington

2023: SEAMS, CCA Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland

2022: In-Side-Out-Side-In, Site Gallery, Sheffield (co-curated by Laura Wilson with Angelica Sule and Robyn Haddon)

2020: Veda, commissioned for Critical Cooking Show, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Istanbul Design Biennial within the context of its fifth edition, Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one.

2020-2018: Deepening (2020) and Deep, Deepen, Deepening (2019), New Geographies Commission with Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery

 

Photo credit: Tom Harrison