Flockton St SE1 oil on canvas 40x30cm
Born: Nuneaton, 1967
Lives & works: London
Education:
Laura trained in multimedia design at the ARTEC and worked in the design and multimedia industry for over fifteen years. She worked as an Adult Education Tutor, illustrator and creative director. Laura studied Foundation at St Martins School of Art and recently graduated from Camberwell College of Art with a degree in Painting.
Selected exhibitions:
2009 Dulwich Open House. Dulwich, London
2009 Celebrating Women Artists. Dulwich Library, London
2008 Winter Open at the arches. The Arches. Peckham. London
2008 Annual Open Exhibition Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park. London
2008 Degree Show. Camberwell College of Art. Camberwell, London
2007 InsideOutside. Mile End Art Pavilion. Mile End, London
2007 Cornered. Centenary Gallery. Camberwell, London
2006 Print Making. Sassoon Gallery. Peckham, London
2005 Print Making. Morley Gallery. Lambeth, London
Website: www.lauramoretongriffiths.com
Description:
Laura Moreton-Griffiths’ work considers the traditions of painting and the art of the past. The paintings reference the Picturesque, the Pastoral and Sublime, though the underlying notions are seldom sublime in themselves and make comment on our present day culture and cultural anxieties. Her practice investigates and contemporizes notions surrounding ‘landscape’, re-presenting landscape’s historical emergence and socio-political importance. In her current work, she presents small paintings of figurines that portray the convergence of real life and still life, history and modernity. Well-observed and painterly, the objects are decontextualized and larger than life, asking that they be viewed for what they are – Arcadian parodies and the traces of our rural traditions in an increasingly distanced urban society.
Laura takes a multidisciplinary approach: researching, drawing, painting in oil and watercolour, making models and using found objects.
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