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{{short description|British sculptor (born 1961)}}
{{short description|British sculptor (born 1961)}}
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{{about|the sculptor|the artist and psychogeographer|Laura Oldfield Ford}}
{{about|the sculptor|the artist and psychogeographer|Laura Oldfield Ford}}
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'''Laura Ford''' (born 1961 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]].
'''Laura Ford''' (born 1961 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]].


==Early life==
== Early life ==
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>
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==
== Work ==
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 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 5 in 2000.
[[file:Weeping_Girls_by_Laura_Ford_(2).jpg|thumb|left|Weeping Girls]]
[[file:Weeping_Girls_by_Laura_Ford_(2).jpg|thumb|left|Weeping Girls]]
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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 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]].


==Academic career==
== Academic career ==


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}}
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}}


==Public commissions==
== Public commissions ==

* 2014 Southmeads Hospital Bristol,
* 2014 Southmeads Hospital Bristol,
* 2012 University Hospital Heidelberg Germany,
* 2012 University Hospital Heidelberg Germany,
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* 1989-90 West Bromwich Town Centre, WBC/PADT
* 1989-90 West Bromwich Town Centre, WBC/PADT


==Gallery==
== Gallery ==
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Days of Judgement, Laura Ford, 2012.jpeg|'Days of Judgement', 2012
File:Days of Judgement, Laura Ford, 2012.jpeg|'Days of Judgement', 2012
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Ford lives and works in Camden alongside her husband, the sculptor [[Andrew Sabin]],<ref name=":0" /> and their three children.
Ford lives and works in Camden alongside her husband, the sculptor [[Andrew Sabin]],<ref name=":0" /> and their three children.


==Notes and references==
== Notes and reference ==
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==External links==
== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109104625/http://grizedalesculpture.org/index.php/laura-ford Grizedale Sculpture Laura Ford]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109104625/http://grizedalesculpture.org/index.php/laura-ford Grizedale Sculpture Laura Ford]
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Revision as of 14:48, 18 August 2021

This article is about the sculptor. For the artist and psychogeographer, see Laura Oldfield Ford.
Laura Ford
Laura Ford in 2012
Laura Ford in 2012
Born1961 (age 63–64)
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
EducationChelsea School of Art
Known forSculpture
Websitewww.lauraford.net

Laura Ford (born 1961 Cardiff, Wales)[1] is a British sculptor.

Early life

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,[2] 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.[3]

Work

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[3] 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,[4] 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 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.

Academic career

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]

Public commissions

  • 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
  • 'Days of Judgement', 2012
    'Days of Judgement', 2012
  • '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

Ford lives and works in Camden alongside her husband, the sculptor Andrew Sabin,[3] and their three children.

Notes and reference

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