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{{short description|British sculptor (born 1961)}}
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'''Laura Ford''' (born 6 February 1961) in [[Cardiff]], Wales,<ref name="WalesOnline">{{cite web |last1=Wightwick |first1=Abbie |title=Sculptor Laura Ford’s fairground childhood |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/sculptor-laura-fords-fairground-childhood-1848288 |website=WalesOnline |access-date=14 August 2021 |language=en |date=26 March 2011}}</ref> is a British [[sculptor]]. She is currently president of the [[Royal Society of Sculptors]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sculptors.org.uk/about/our-people|title=Our People|publisher=Royal Society of Sculptors |access-date=18 March 2024}}</ref>
'''Laura Ford''' (born 1961, [[Cardiff]], Wales) is a British [[sculptor]].


==Life and work==
== Early life ==
Growing up in a travelling fairground family to the age of sixteen and attended Stonar School in Wiltshire. Studying at [[Bath Academy of Art]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/laura-ford-inside-the-welsh-sculptors-humorous-and-often-terrifying-work-a6928996.html|title=Inside Welsh sculptor Laura Ford's humorous and often terrifying work|date=2016-03-13|work=The Independent|access-date=2017-08-19|language=en-GB}}</ref> (1978–82), whilst spending a term at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. She was invited to take part in the annual [[New Contemporaries]] at [[Institute of Contemporary Arts]](1982). Ford has lived and worked in London since 1982 since studying at [[Chelsea School of Art]] (1982–83).<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/sculptor-laura-fords-fairground-childhood-1848288|title=Sculptor Laura Ford’s fairground childhood|last=Wightwick|first=Abbie|date=2011-03-26|work=walesonline|access-date=2017-08-19}}</ref>
Growing up in a travelling fairground family, Ford was educated at [[Stonar School]] in [[Wiltshire]], and then at [[Bath Academy of Art]] from 1978 to 1982,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/laura-ford-inside-the-welsh-sculptors-humorous-and-often-terrifying-work-a6928996.html|title=Inside Welsh sculptor Laura Ford's humorous and often terrifying work|date=2016-03-13|work=The Independent|access-date=2017-08-19|language=en-GB}}</ref> while spending a term at the [[Cooper Union School of Art]] in [[New York City]]. In 1982, she was invited to take part in the annual [[New Contemporaries]] exhibition at the [[Institute of Contemporary Arts]] and then studied at the [[Chelsea School of Art]] from 1982 to 1983.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/sculptor-laura-fords-fairground-childhood-1848288|title=Sculptor Laura Ford's fairground childhood|last=Wightwick|first=Abbie|date=2011-03-26|work=walesonline|access-date=2017-08-19}}</ref>


== Work ==
Ford is identified with the New British Sculpture movement from her participation in the 1983 survey exhibition The Sculpture Show at [[Serpentine Gallery]]<ref name=":0" /> and [[The Hayward]],{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} as well as participating in British Art Show 5 in 2000.
Ford has lived and worked in [[London]] since 1982 and has been identified with the New British Sculpture movement since her participation in the 1983 survey exhibition ''The Sculpture Show'' at the [[Serpentine Gallery]]<ref name=":0" /> and [[The Hayward]],{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} as well as participating in the [[British Art Show#British Art Show 5 (2000)|British Art Show 5]] in 2000.
[[file:Weeping_Girls_by_Laura_Ford_(2).jpg|thumb|left|"Weeping Girls"]]
Marcello Spinelli wrote (British Art Show 5): "Ford's creatures are faithful representations of fantasy and, at times, a nightmarish imagination. With their bitter-sweet, menacing and endearing qualities, her stuffed animals and dolls appeal to childhood memories and inhabit a world we immediately recognize as somewhat familiar."{{quote without source|date=October 2013}}


Marcello Spinelli wrote (British Art Show 5) ''‘Ford’s creatures are faithful representations of fantasy and, at times, a nightmarish imagination. With their bitter-sweet, menacing and endearing qualities, her stuffed animals and dolls appeal to childhood memories and inhabit a world we immediately recognize as somewhat familiar.’''{{cite quote|date=October 2013}} 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]]; [[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.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}
Her work is represented in many public collections, including the [[Tate Gallery]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ford-moose-t07580|title='Moose', Laura Ford, 1998 {{!}} Tate|last=Tate|work=Tate|access-date=2017-08-19|language=en-GB}}</ref> the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], the [[Government Art Collection]], Potteries Museum, National Museums and Gallery of Wales; Museum of Modern Art, [[University of Iowa]]; the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]]; the [[Contemporary Art Society]]; [[Unilever]]; [[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.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}


She has exhibited widely including; Solo, '2012 Days of Judgment', Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche und Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg and The New Art Centre, Roche Court, UK, 2011 Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 2007, 'Rag and Bone', [[Turner Contemporary]], Margate, 2006 'Armour Boys', Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2004, 'Wreckers', Beaconsfield, London, 2003, Ford ‘Headthinkers’, Houldsworth Gallery, Cork Street. 2002, 'The Great Indoors', Salamanca Centre of Contemporary Art, Spain, 1998, [[Camden Arts Centre]], London (with Jacqui Poncelet) Group 2011 with Magdalena Abakanowicz, at the Industriemuseum Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Bocholt, Germany, 2005, [[Venice Biennale]] for Wales, 2004 'Into My World: Recent British Sculpture', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, USA, with Matt Franks, [[Roger Hiorns]], James Ireland, Jim Lambie, and [[Mike Nelson (artist)|Mike Nelson]].
She has exhibited widely, including: Solo, 2012 ''Days of Judgement'', Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche und Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, and The New Art Centre, Roche Court, UK, 2011 Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 2007, ''Rag and Bone'', [[Turner Contemporary]], Margate, 2006, ''Armour Boys'', Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2004, ''Wreckers'', Beaconsfield, London, 2003, Ford ''Headthinkers'', Houldsworth Gallery, Cork Street. 2002, ''The Great Indoors'', Salamanca Centre of Contemporary Art, Spain, 1998, [[Camden Arts Centre]], London (with [[Jacqui Poncelet]]) Group, 2011, with [[Magdalena Abakanowicz]], at the Industriemuseum Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Bocholt, Germany, 2005, [[Venice Biennale]] for Wales, 2004, ''Into My World: Recent British Sculpture'', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, USA, with Matt Franks, [[Roger Hiorns]], James Ireland, Jim Lambie, and [[Mike Nelson (artist)|Mike Nelson]].


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== Academic career ==
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Laura Ford lives and works in Camden alongside her husband, the sculptor [[Andrew Sabin]]<ref name=":0" /> and their three children.


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Between 1983 and 1995, Ford was a lecturer at [[Chelsea School of Art]] and Senior Lecturer at [[Middlesex University]], also teaching extensively at most London art schools.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}
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==Academic career==


== Public commissions ==
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Between 1983 – 1995 Ford was a lecturer at [[Chelsea School of Art]], Senior Lecturer at [[Middlesex University]], also teaching extensively at most London art schools.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}
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* 2014: Southmeads Hospital, [[Bristol]]
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* 2012: University Hospital, [[Heidelberg]], Germany
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* 2009: City [[Stockholm]], Sweden
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* 2007: "Look Ahead", Short-Term Housing Project
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* 2006: "Weeping Girls", Jupiter Artland
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* 2002: Swiss Cottage Children's Library, London
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* 2001–02: Swiss Cottage Children’s Library, London
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* 1998: British High Commission, [[Ottawa]]
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* 1997: Surrey Docks/Dockland Development Agency
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* 1993: "Chiltern Sculpture Trail", [[Oxford]]
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* 1989–90: [[West Bromwich]] Town Centre, WBC/PADT


==Public commissions==
== Gallery ==

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* 2014 Southmeads Hospital Bristol,
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* 2012 University Hospital Heidelberg Germany,
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* 2009 City Stockholm, Sweden,
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* 2007 'Look Ahead', Short Term Housing Project,
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* 2006 ‘Weeping Girls’ Jupiter Artland,
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* 2002 Swiss Cottage Children’s Library, London,
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* 2001-02 Swiss Cottage Children’s Library, London
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* 1998 British High Commission, Ottawa
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* 1997 Surrey Docks/Dockland Development Agency
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* 1993 'Chiltern Sculpture Trail', Oxford
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* 1989-90 West Bromwich Town Centre, WBC/PADT

==Gallery==
<gallery>
<gallery>
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File:'Armour Boys'.jpg|"Armour Boys", Houldsworth Gallery, 2006
File:Days of Judgement, Laura Ford, 2012.jpeg|'Days of Judgement', 2012
File:'Armour Boys'.jpg|'Armour Boys' Houldsworth Gallery, 2006
File:'Armour Boys' Sweden.jpg|"Armour Boys" (installed at [[Sculpture in Pilane]], Sweden), 2006
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File:'Rag and Bone', Laura Ford, Stockholm, 1998.jpeg|"Rag and Bone", Stockholm, 1998
File:'Armour Boys' Sweden.jpg|'Armour Boys', (installed at [[Sculpture in Pilane]], Sweden) 2006
File:'Rag and Bone', Laura Ford, Stockholm, 1998.jpeg|'Rag and Bone', Stockholm, 1998
File:'Rag and Bone', Laura Ford, 2007.jpeg|"Rag and Bone", 2007
File:'Headthinkers'.jpg|Houldsworth Gallery, London, 2003
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File:'Rag and Bone', Laura Ford, 2007.jpeg|'Rag and Bone', 2007
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File:'Moose', Laura Ford, 1998.jpeg|"Moose", 1998
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File:'Headthinkers'.jpg|Houldsworth Gallery, London 2003
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File:LauraFord.ChinaCats.1.jpg|"China Cats"
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File:'Moose', Laura Ford, 1998.jpeg|'Moose', 1998
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File:LauraFord.ChinaCats.1.jpg|China Cats
</gallery>
</gallery>


== Personal life ==
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==Notes and references==
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Ford lives and works in Camden alongside her husband, the sculptor [[Andrew Sabin]],<ref name=":0" /> and their three children.
{{reflist}}

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== Notes and reference ==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
== External links ==
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* [https://www.lauraford.net/ Official website]
* http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ford-moose-t07580
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109104625/http://grizedalesculpture.org/index.php/laura-ford Grizedale Sculpture Laura Ford]
* http://sculpture.uk.com/exhibitions/current
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* [http://www.villa-wessel.de/AusstellungsSeiten/Laura_Ford_2015/laura_ford_2015.html Laura Ford - Große Einzelausstellung in der Villa Wessel in Iserlohn 17. April 2015 – 21. Juni 2015]
* http://www.britishartshow.co.uk/history
* http://www.houldsworth.co.uk/artist_text_view.php?id=12&artist=5
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T7fyScFrUU
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/artist-laura-ford.../4915.html
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-r3pKUcewQ
* http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/593571126001
* http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=44378
* http://sculpture.uk.com/artists/laura_ford/
* http://www.galerie-scheffel.de/root/index.php?lang=de&page_id=269
* http://pilane.org/2010/eng/index.php
* http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/rag-and-bone
* http://www.decordova.org/art/sculpture-park/armour-boys
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* http://grizedalesculpture.org/index.php/laura-ford
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* [http://www.villa-wessel.de/AusstellungsSeiten/Laura_Ford_2015/laura_ford_2015.html Laura Ford - Große Einzelausstellung in der Villa Wessel in Iserlohn 17. April 2015 - 21. Juni 2015]


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Latest revision as of 12:32, 23 November 2024

This article is about the sculptor. For the artist and psychogeographer, see Laura Oldfield Ford.

Laura Ford
Laura Ford in 2012
Ford in 2012
Born (1961-02-06) 6 February 1961 (age 63)
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
EducationBath Academy of Art;
Chelsea School of Art
Known forSculpture
SpouseAndrew Sabin
Websitewww.lauraford.net

Laura Ford (born 6 February 1961) in Cardiff, Wales,[1] is a British sculptor. She is currently president of the Royal Society of Sculptors.[2]

Early life

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Growing up in a travelling fairground family, Ford was educated at Stonar School in Wiltshire, and then at Bath Academy of Art from 1978 to 1982,[3] while spending a term at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. In 1982, she was invited to take part in the annual New Contemporaries exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and then studied at the Chelsea School of Art from 1982 to 1983.[4]

Work

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Ford has lived and worked in London since 1982 and has been identified with the New British Sculpture movement since her participation in the 1983 survey exhibition The Sculpture Show at the Serpentine Gallery[4] and The Hayward,[citation needed] as well as participating in the British Art Show 5 in 2000.

"Weeping Girls"

Marcello Spinelli wrote (British Art Show 5): "Ford's creatures are faithful representations of fantasy and, at times, a nightmarish imagination. With their bitter-sweet, menacing and endearing qualities, her stuffed animals and dolls appeal to childhood memories and inhabit a world we immediately recognize as somewhat familiar."[This quote needs a citation]

Her work is represented in many public collections, including the Tate Gallery,[5] the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Government Art Collection, Potteries Museum, National Museums and Gallery of Wales; Museum of Modern Art, University of Iowa; the Arts Council of Great Britain; the Contemporary Art Society; Unilever; 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.[citation needed]

She has exhibited widely, including: Solo, 2012 Days of Judgement, Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche und Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, and The New Art Centre, Roche Court, UK, 2011 Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 2007, Rag and Bone, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2006, Armour Boys, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2004, Wreckers, Beaconsfield, London, 2003, Ford Headthinkers, Houldsworth Gallery, Cork Street. 2002, The Great Indoors, Salamanca Centre of Contemporary Art, Spain, 1998, Camden Arts Centre, London (with Jacqui Poncelet) Group, 2011, with Magdalena Abakanowicz, at the Industriemuseum Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Bocholt, Germany, 2005, Venice Biennale for Wales, 2004, Into My World: Recent British Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, USA, with Matt Franks, Roger Hiorns, James Ireland, Jim Lambie, and Mike Nelson.

Academic career

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Between 1983 and 1995, Ford was a lecturer at Chelsea School of Art and Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, also teaching extensively at most London art schools.[citation needed]

Public commissions

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  • 2014: Southmeads Hospital, Bristol
  • 2012: University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2009: City Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2007: "Look Ahead", Short-Term Housing Project
  • 2006: "Weeping Girls", Jupiter Artland
  • 2002: Swiss Cottage Children's Library, London
  • 2001–02: Swiss Cottage Children’s Library, London
  • 1998: British High Commission, Ottawa
  • 1997: Surrey Docks/Dockland Development Agency
  • 1993: "Chiltern Sculpture Trail", Oxford
  • 1989–90: West Bromwich Town Centre, WBC/PADT
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  • "Armour Boys", Houldsworth Gallery, 2006
    "Armour Boys", Houldsworth Gallery, 2006
  • "Armour Boys" (installed at Sculpture in Pilane, Sweden), 2006
    "Armour Boys" (installed at Sculpture in Pilane, Sweden), 2006
  • "Rag and Bone", Stockholm, 1998
    "Rag and Bone", Stockholm, 1998
  • "Rag and Bone", 2007
    "Rag and Bone", 2007
  • Houldsworth Gallery, London, 2003
    Houldsworth Gallery, London, 2003
  • "Moose", 1998
    "Moose", 1998
  • "China Cats"
    "China Cats"

Personal life

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Ford lives and works in Camden alongside her husband, the sculptor Andrew Sabin,[4] and their three children.

Notes and reference

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  1. ^ Wightwick, Abbie (26 March 2011). "Sculptor Laura Ford's fairground childhood". WalesOnline. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Our People". Royal Society of Sculptors. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Inside Welsh sculptor Laura Ford's humorous and often terrifying work". The Independent. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Wightwick, Abbie (26 March 2011). "Sculptor Laura Ford's fairground childhood". walesonline. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  5. ^ Tate. "'Moose', Laura Ford, 1998 | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
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