Laura Ford

Laura Ford ( born 1961 in Cardiff, Wales) is a British artist and sculptor.

Life

Ford grew up in a fairground family. She studied from 1978 to 1982 at the School of Art and Design in Bath and then at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, where she received a Bachelor's degree. The master's degree in art, she graduated in 1983, at the Chelsea School of Art After that she traveled with her ​​partner and fellow sculptor Andrew Sabin by India, where she taught art classes.

Exhibitions

Ford showed her work in over 20 solo and so far ( 2011) over 45 group exhibitions. Her works are in collections of the Tate Gallery in London, contain at Penguin Books and Prudential. The museums of Stoke-on -Trent, the Arts Council of Great Britain and the National Museum of Wales show their sculptures. Ford represented Wales at the 51st Biennale in Venice in 2005 .. In Bad Homburg in 2009 in the exhibition of sculptures by renowned international sculptor to see Blickachsen 7. 2012 there was to see bushels in Bad Homburg is a selection of her sculptures in the gallery. Following put the LWL Industrial Museum exhibits its relation to the work of Magdalena Abakanowicz. This exhibition concluded with a performance by Claudius Reimann in Bocholt Textile Museum. 2013 some of her works were erected in front of the IG -Building at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main as part of the visual axes 9.

Sculptures ( selection)

Rag pickers with ton

Rag and bone man with bag

Ragman

Rag and bone man with blanket