LAURA FORD
Biography
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. Solo shows include 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 the Government Art
Collection and Tate.
Solo Exhibitions
2013
Laura Ford at Schaetzlerpalais, Augsburg, Germany
2012
Days of Judgment, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
Days of Judgement, Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche und Galerie
Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany (catalogue)
2011
Laura Ford, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA
New Works and Beast, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2010
Laura Ford, Museum und Galerie im Prediger, Schwäb. Gmünd, Germany
2009
Laura Ford, Durham City Art Gallery, UK
Laura Ford: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen (Sculpture and Drawing), SinclairHaus – ALTANA Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany (catalogue)
2008
Laura Ford, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
Laura Ford: Rag and Bone, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
Wanderland 2008, Fundament Foundation, Tilberg Niederlande
Sculpture in Pilane, Sweden
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2007
Rag and Bone, Turner Contemprorary, Margate
Disagreeable People, Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
Installation at the Economist Plaza, London
2006
Armour Boys, New Art Centre, Roche Court
Armour Boys, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Laura Ford – Beast, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2005
SomeWhere Else, 51st Venice Biennale
2004
Wreckers, Houldsworth Gallery, London
Wreckers, Beaconsfield, London
The Great Indoors, Gillingham Gallery, Kent
2003
Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
The Great Indoors, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
and Glynn Vivian, Swansea (touring)
Headthinkers, Houldsworth Gallery, London
2002
The Great Indoors, Salamanca Centre of Contemporary Art, Spain
(catalogue)
New Works, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
2001
Desperados, Houldsworth Gallery, London
1999
Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich (with Jacqui Poncelet)
Arnolfini, Bristol (with Jacqui Poncelet)
1998
Camden Arts Centre, London (with Jacqui Poncelet)
1996
Not Just A Pretty Face, Spacex, Exeter
1994
Jose Freire Project Space, New York
1992
GOD POT, Now 92, Castle Museum, Nottingham
1991
Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
Riverside Studios, London (with Hermione Wiltshire)
1987
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
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Group Exhibitions
2014
Committed to paper: Master drawings and prints by sculptors, Frederik
Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA
Donaugalerie 2014, Sculpture Project Tuttlingen, Germany
Sculpture in Pilane, Pilane Sculpture Park, Sweden
Sculptures at Eberbach Monastery, Germany
The Summer exhibition, at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales
Here Today, The Old Sorting Office, London
2013
Savage & Tender, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
2Q13 Women Collectors, Women Artists, Lloyd's Club London
Emissary Cats at Blickachsen 9, campus of Goethe University,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2012
Sculpture at Kloster Eberbach, Kloster Eberbach Foundation, organised by
Galerie Scheffel, Germany
Skulpturen, Laura Ford, Jaume Plensa, David Nash and Masayuki Koorida
at Museum Bad Arolsen, Germany
2011
Ford - Abakanowicz, LWL-Industriemuseum Westfälisches
Landesmuseum für Industriekultur, TextilWerk Bocholt, Germany
New Paradises, Sculpture Garden of Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Germany
Apopcalypse Now, Niew Dakota Amsterdam, Netherlands
Placement, St Andrews Museum, Scotland
Placement, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales
LOWCS art in the city, Swansea, Wales
Beflügelt - Zum Motiv des Vogels in der Kunst des 20. und 21.
Jahrhunderts, Stiftung BC-pro arte, Biberach, Germany
Unlängst im Wald, Zentrale der Bayerischen Staatsforsten, Regensburg,
Germany
2010
Märchenkunst, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany (catalogue)
Garten-natürlich künstlich, Kunstforum Seligenstadt, Ehemalige
Benediktinerabtei, Seligenstadt, Germany
Skulptur I, Pilane, Sweden
Skulpturensommer im Kloster Eberbach, Galerie Scheffel, Eltville, Germany
Neue Kunst in alten Gärten, Obergut Lenthe / Lenthe
Manor, Gehrden-Lenthe, Germany
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Scultura Internazionale a Racconigi, Racconigi Castle, Piedmont, Italy
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. With
Grayson Perry,Tracey Emin, Rachel Kneebone, Damien Hirst. Provenance,
Gallery Live, Bath Spa University. UK
Deadpan, The Royal Standard, Liverpool.
2009
Skulptur I, Pilane, Sweden
2009
Blickachsen 7, Kurpark, Bad Homburg, Germany
2008
Skulptur I, Pilane, Sweden
2007
Tech-Mac-Mayacom, Tokyo, Japan
Blickachsen 6, Kurpark, Bad Homburg, Germany
Collezionami, 2nd Biennal of Southern Italy, Bratislavia
2006
Somewhere Else, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales
Breakers, PM Gallery, London
2005
Kinderszenen (Childs Play), Rohkunstbau, Berlin with Louise Bourgeois,
Jake & Dinos Chapman
LAURA FORD Some Mothers Sons, Durham Art Gallery
Public Art Project, Look Ahead Housing, in collaboration with Liz Freemont
Strata, Strata Florida, Wales touring to Kells, Ireland
Figuratively Speaking, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
Size Matters: Exploring Scale in the Arts Council Collection , Hayward
Gallery touring show, UK
2004
Artist’s Favourites (selected by Yinka Shonibare), ICA, London
Per Head, John Hansard Gallery
Into My World: Recent British Sculpture, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut,
Laura Ford, Matt Franks, Roger Hiorns, Mariele Neudecker, Mike Nelson,
Saskia Oldfarbers, Jim Lambie, David Thorpe
Disguise, Manchester City Art Gallery
2003
Engineer – group show, Beaconsfield, London.
The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
2002
Domestic Landscape, Bath
Ceramica: Sleepers, Treffry Gallery, Royal Cornwall Museum, Cornwall
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Home Collection, London
2001
New Acquisitions, National Museum of Wales
Animals in the Workplace, Canary Wharf, London
Telling, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
2000
Little Angels, Houldsworth, London
British Art Show 5, a National Touring Exhibition organised by the
Hayward Gallery London. Shows in Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff and
Birmingham
Bronze, Holland Park, London
1999
Animal, Museum Antoine Bordelle, Paris
Sculpture At Goodwood
1998
Fun de Siècle, Walsall Museum
New Art from Britain, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Figurative Sculpture, Flowers East, London
1997
Rebel Angels, Walsall Museum
1996
Private View, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Leeds
Sculpture At Goodwood
1995
It’s a Pleasure, Royal Festival Hall, London
Art Casino, Barbican Centre, London
Cabinet Pictures, Jason Rhodes Gallery, London
1992
Summer Lightning, Seamans Hospital, Greenwich, Wise
Taylor Partnership, toured to Los Angeles
Physical Encounter, including Helen Chadwick and Laura Godfrey Isaacs,
Gardner Centre, Brighton
1990
Sculptors’ Drawings, New York Studio School, New York
Ariadne (performance with Anne Griffin), Tron, Glasgow;
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; South Hill Park Arts Centre,
Bracknell and Arnolfini, Bristol
1989
Ariadne, The Pheonix, Leicester; The Grand, Wolverhampton; The Pegasus,
Oxford; The Place, London
1988
The Deadly Grove (performance with Anne Griffin) Battersea Arts Centre,
London; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Castle
Museum, Nottingham;
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LAURA FORD Prema Arts Centre, Gloucestershire; Oval House, London;
Whitechapel Open, London
The Wedding, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Laura Ford Paintings and Drawings, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1987
Big Drawings, East Street Studios, Canterbury
Laura Ford, Nicola Jacobs
Self Portrait, A Modern View, Artiste Gallery, Bath (touring)
1986
Sculpture in the City, Bath
Menagerie, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Third Generation of Women Sculptors Today, Canterbury
1985-84 Metaphor and/or Symbol, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Museum
of Modern Art, Osaka
1985
New Work by Laura Ford and Andrew Sabin, Temporary Shop Show,
Islington, London
New Works, 7 Dials, London (curated by Richard Pomeroy)
1983
The Sculpture Show, Hayward and Serpentine Galleries, London
Sculpture New Directions, Cleveland Arts Centre, Middlesborough
1982
Northern New Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
New Contemporaries, ICA, London
Public Commissions
2014
Southmeads Hostpital, Bristol
2013
Emissary Cats, Shanghai Sculpture Park, China
2012
University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
2009
City Stockholm, Sweden
Gateway Foundation, St. Louis, USA
2007
Look Ahead, Short Term Housing Project, London
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2006
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
2002
Swiss Cottage Children’s Library, London
2001
Swiss Cottage Children’s Library, London
1998
British High Commission, Ottowa
1997
Surrey Docks/Dockland Development Agency, London
1993
Chiltern Sculpture Trail, Oxford
1989-90 West Bromwich Town Centre, WBC/PADT
Collections
Tate Gallery, London, UK
National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Museum of Art, University of Iowa, USA
Arts Council of Great Britain, UK
Unilever plc, London, UK
Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Penguin Books, UK
Government Art Collection, UK
Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, UK
New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Visvim, Tokyo, Japan
Shanghai Sculpture Park, China
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Bibliography
2013
Laura Ford, exhibition catalogue, Schaetzlerpalais Augsburg, published by
Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg and Galerie Scheffel, Germany
The Artists' Museum, talk with Laura Ford, Camden Arts Centre, London
2012
Skulpturen, exhibition catalogue, Museum Bad Arolse. Laura Ford, Jaume
Plensa, David Nash and Masayuki Koorida, published by Museumsverein
Bad Arolsen and Galerie Christian Scheffel
2011
Atelier. Industrie, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Laura Ford, commissioned
by LWL-Industriemuseum, Essen, Germany
2010
Blickachsen 7, Edition und Galerie Scheffel GmbH, Germany
Maerchenkunst, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
2009
Laura Ford, exhibition catalogue, ALTANA Kulturstiftung, Museum im
Prediger, Germany. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. Grand
Rapids, MI, USA. Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
2007
Sculpture Today by Judy Collins, published by Phaidon
Blickachsen 6, Edition und Galerie Scheffel GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany
2006
Armour Boys Catalogue (Essay by Duncan McLaren) The Times, 25th Feb
RE: Imaging Wales, a yearbook of the Visual Arts, Seren-books with
assistance of the Arts Council Wales
2005
Radio 4, Front Row, presented by Tim Marlow
Somewhere Else, Artists from Wales, Venice Biennale catalogue essay by
Karen Mackinnon with introduction by Michael Nixon
Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Rohkunstbau, Berlin with Louise
Bourgeois, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Marcel Dzama and Cornelius Volker
2004
Into My World: Recent British Sculpture (catalogue), Aldrich Museum
Ramble in the Jungle, The Times, 19 June
Display of Favouritism, Metro, 9 June
Bell Boys and a Bearded Lady, Flux, February
2003
Why Donkeys are not Such Silly Asses, The Journal, June
Thinking Head, What’s On, 19 March
Object of the Week, Daily Telegraph, 10 March
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Crafts Council, Feb 2003
Independent, 4 January
2002
Laura Ford, exhibition catalogue, La Centro de Arte de Salamanca Obras 9,
published by Consorcio Salamanca with support of The British Council
Great Indoors at De Lar Warr Pavilion, exhibition preview, Sotiris Kyriacou,
Contemporary, Dec, p34
Great Indoors at De Lar Warr Pavilion, exhibition preview, Jessica Lack,
Guardian Guide, 23 Nov
2001
Killer Wales, The Times, travel section, 20 Oct, p4
Wonkey Donkey, i-D magazine, Jul
Last Chance to See, Diary Section, Art Review, Jun
Desperados, exhibition review, Chiara Zampetti, Tema Celeste, no 86
Art Works, London Weekend Television, 27 May
Desperados, exhibition review, Morgan Falconer, What’s On, 23 May
Desperados, exhibition review, John Russell Taylor, The Times, 23 May
Desperados, exhibition review, Fisun Guner, Metro, 9 May
Desperados, exhibition profile. Capital Live, 4 May
In Quilts, on Stilts and Heading for a Fall, Helen Sumpter, The Big Issue
2000
The British Art Show 5, a National Touring Exhibition organised by the
Hayward Gallery, London, for the Arts Council of England, exhibition
catalogue
A Sinking Feeling at This Jolly Poor Show, Terry Grinley, Birmingham Post
Five’s Alive!, What’s On Birmingham, 25 Nov – 8 Dec
Birmingham + Cardiff, British Art Show 5, Lisa Corrin, Burlington Magazine
Looking at the New, Julian Stallabrass, RA Magazine, Autumn
The Best of British, Alison Stokes, South Wales Echo, 21 Sep
Little Angels, exhibition review, John Russell Taylor, The Times, 20 Sep
Elephant Boy’s Big Adventure, Samantha Ellis, Evening Standard, 13 Sep
Chintz Sculptures far from Part of the Furniture, Western Mail, Cardiff
The New Brits on the Block, Tate Magazine, Spring
The British Art Show, James Hall, Art Quarterly, Spring, p60
The Unsexy, Inescapable Truth, John McEwen, Sunday Telegraph, 16 Apr
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British Art: The Whole Story in Eight Parts, Tim Marlow, Independent on
Sunday, 16 Apr, p5
Britart By Committee, William Packer, Financial Times, 15 Apr
Time to Burst the Art Balloon?, Mark Fisher, The List (Glasgow and
Edinburgh), 13 Apr
Not So Subtle Wordplay, Duncan McMillan, The Scotsman,12 Apr
Britart - Now That the Thrill Has Gone, Richard Cork, The Times, 12 Apr
Pizazz in Short Supply, Richard Dorment, Daily Telegraph, 12 Apr, p24
A Jolly Good Show All Around, Tom Lubbock, The Independent, 11 Apr
Two Centuries, Two Shows, One Art, Magnus Linklater,
Scotland on Sunday, 9 Apr
There’s No Getting Away With It, Alan Taylor, The Observer, 9 Apr
Substance Swamped by the Superficial, Richard Jaques, Edinburgh Evening
News, 7 Apr, p34
57 Varieties, Jackie McGlone, Scotland on Sunday, 2 Apr
1999
It’s Stranger than Fiction, Sonia Carvill, East Anglian
Daily Times, 25 Jun, p33
A Stranger Here Myself, John Henshall, Suffolk and Norfolk Life, Jun
Chintz Girl Meets Giant Zoo in the Name of Art, Anne Gould, Evening Star
A Stranger Here Myself, exhibition review, Emma Maiden, Bristol Venue
LAURA FORD A Stranger Here Myself, exhibition preview, AN Magazine
Super Furry Animals, Bristol Venue, 16-30 Apr
Fun de Siecle, Walsall Museum, exhibition review, Dave Beech, Art
Monthly, Feb, p42
Art-as-Sociology, John McEwen, Daily Telegraph, Jan
1998
Come On, Act Your Age, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 15 Dec, p10
No Damien, No Gary, No Tracey , David Barrett, Art Monthly, Sep, p7-10
1997
Rebels With a Cause to Offer New Art, David Jones, Walsall Advertiser
1996
Private View at the Bowes Museum, exhibition catalogue, published by the
Henry Moore Institute, edited by Penelope Curtis
Private View, exhibition review, Sunday Telegraph, 30 Jun
1995
All Smiles in Female World, Richard Cork, The Times, 17 Jan