artist statement blah blah

creating fictional safe spaces to softly hold our anxious responses to the evident global drop in ethics, responsibility & care?

i use one clay body & repeating motifs as respite from the chaos of awareness: simplified forms are gentle to absorb. functions encourage intentional recuperation.

the open & slow postures & ‘lost but learning’ narrative of my figurative sculptures refuse the ‘cruel is cool, fast is first’ mentality peddled by mainstream media, product marketeers & political/corporate f**ks to perpetuate the insecurity & disconnection required to maintain the brutal profit-driven/capital-accumulating status quo. i try make peace.

so, much of the work here is a speculative story of a next world, where the ‘aim’ of evolution is to contribute to community, create self-loving mythology, live with art, lean into the land, sea and air, and do all with affection.

i kitty clay visualises the ways new life forms mutate through play and experiment, how they use and move into the objects we left behind. it talks, in the simplest ways, about how, even yet, humanoids could get things right.

making this work feels, to me, optimistic and reassuring. a reminder that life only ends if we assume the story is about us. i hope that optimism translates through the functionality of work that can pass forward and forward and forward.

so, welcome to a welcoming post-human earth. as homewares.

and also houses for rats, and fish, that look old. and will last until they are.

thanks for visiting.

love, laura

likeness by @shiam_ldn

artist bio

self taught ceramic & mixed media craftist/artist feeding on folk art, mythology, monsters, cartoons, creation myths and sci-fi literature. i create safe-space, creepy-cute, sculptural, domestically functional works from white stoneware (often with embroidered ‘subtitles’) blending the love and rage of a personal narrative with optimistic fictional world-creation.

north london born, i am a citizen of aotearoa, NZ & resident in meanjin, australia. i began working with clay in 2019. 

life, uh, finds a way - jeff goldblum

never run with a chisel - my dad

oh yeh, i got that like a fever - mcqueen