LAURA WHITE
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Laura White is interested in the way we read and view nature. How nature
through the frameworks we set up can seduce us and provide us with
unthreatening pleasure and entertainment, like visiting an aquarium, a zoo, or
walking through urban parkland. This process of visual engagement, often in
the work projected as a moving image is shattered by the viewers
acknowledgement of the positioning, exaggeration and awkward arrangements
of the image, or the presence of objects in the space, which slowly reveal a less
entertaining view of nature, one that exposes its extreme manipulation and
often threatening instability, whether that be through human contamination,
misrepresentation, dislocation, or nature’s ability without any human
intervention to destroy.

Qualifications        
2004        MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
1997        MA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
1990        BA (Hons)  Fine Art: Sculpture. Loughborough University School of Art and Design

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006       
Beauty and the Beast. Fieldgate Gallery, London.
Conjunction 06,  Redgate Gallery, Brixton, London.
Small Works, VINEspace, Vyner St, London.
Art Car Boot Fair, The Old Truman Brewery, London.
Basement Screen, The Residence, London.
Kamikaze Blossom, Fieldgate Gallery, London.
Eau Sauvage, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland.
VINESpace, Vyner St, London
Altered Beast.  Three Colts Gallery, London.

2005/06         
Basement Screen.  BasementArtProject.com
Prussian Blue.  Carter Gallery, London.

2005        
Yabadabadoo.  Cell Project Space, London
For and From. Metropole Galleries, Folkestone.
Sculpture at Canterbury.  Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury.
We Have Left the City Gates. Nunnery Gallery, London. Curated by JJ Chalesworth.
Urban Formalism. Cortex Athletico and Museum of Contemporary Art
Bordeaux, France.
Avecom Video Festival, Arnhem, Netherlands.
On the Road. Pro Arts project. California, USA.

2004        
Grottos. Video screening, Candid Projection Rooms, London.
Alma Enterprises video screening, London.
Pleasure Garden. Nottingham Castle, Nottingham.
Nowhere Else but Here. Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London.

2003        
Inter-mission.  Bow Church London.
Imaging London. Houldsworth Gallery, London.
Amplifying Silence/Magnifying Stillness. Foundation D’Art
Contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain. France. Curated by Roy Exley.

2002        
Lonely This Christmas. i-level, London. James Windsor Art.
Diversion. Museum of Garden History, London. Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art
Exposure.  Standpoint Gallery, London. (Two person.)

2001        
Fair Charm and Foul Play. Deptford X, London.

2000        
Preface.  International Biennale. The Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

2000-02                 
Museum of Installation Box Project. MOI London, Angel Row Gallery  
Nottingham, Turnpike Gallery Leigh, Unit 2 Gallery London Guildhall University.

1999        
Father Apollinaris Said.  Vilma Gold, London.

1998        
The Ida Branson Memorial Bequest 98. Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset.
Vital Art.  Atlantis , London.

1995        
Economist Plaza, London.
Ikon Touring Exhibition, Birmingham.

Selected One Person Exhibitions        
2006        
Into the Cold Light. Transition Gallery, London.
Laura White:  New Work.  Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, Essex.

2005        
Projects at Christ Church, Christ Church, Spitalfields, London
Deck  George Rodger Gallery, University College for the Creative Arts, Maidstone.
Laura White. Alma Enterprises, London.

2000         
Laura White. Fordham Gallery, London.
In-Side. Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University.

1999        
City Break. Cable Street Gallery, London.
Everything you do counts here. Margaret Harvey Gallery, University of  Hertfordshire.
The Decima Gallery.  Decima Gallery, London.

1997        
Laura White.  Bradford Cathedral.

Curated Exhibitions

2006    Beauty and the Beast. Fieldgate Gallery, London.
2007    Good dog/Bad dog.  Nunnery Gallery, London.

Selected Commissions and Residencies        
1997        
Kleinsassen Art Gallery, Germany.
Internationales Obernkirchener Symposium, Germany.
1996        
23rd Iwate-Town International Residency, Japan.
1995        
Maalot, Israel.
Sheffield Hallam University.

Selected Reviews and Articles        
Oct 2005       Art Press No. 317 (Review) ‘Urban Formalism’ Cortex Athletico, France.
Autumn 05    Le Festin  No. 55 (Review)  ‘Urban Fromalism’ Cortex Athletico. France.
July 2004       Time Out (Review) ‘Pleasure Garden.’ Nottingham Castle.
Oct 2003        Art Review (Review) ‘Imaging London.’ Houldsworth , London.
Sept 2003      Time Out (Review) ‘Inter-mission’ Bow Church, London.
Aug 2002       Time Out (Review) ‘Diversion’ Museum of Garden History, London.
Sept 2001      Time Out (Preview) ‘Fair Charm and Foul Play,’ Deptford X.
April 2001      New Eastenders.’ BBC2 Documentary.  (Featured artist.)
The Guardian (G2), Observer, Evening Standard.
March 2001   The Guardian (G2) ‘New Eastenders.’
May 2000       AN Magazine (Review) Fordham Gallery, London.
April 2000       The Guardian (Society) Fordham Gallery, London.
Feb 2000        AN Magazine (Preview)  ‘In-Side’. Bonington Gallery, Nottingham.
Feb 2000        Live Art Magazine (Preview) ‘In-Side.’ Bonington Gallery, Nottingham.
Aug 1999        Contemporary Visual Arts Publication. (Preview.) Decima Gallery.  Issue 24.
The Guardian. The Guide. (Review.) ‘City Break’. Cable Street, London
Time Out (Review) ‘City Break.’ Cable Street, London.  

Selected Publications
2006            Seeing Through Objects by JJ Charlesworth. Exhibition paper.  Firstsite Gallery, Colchester.
2005                We Have Left the City Gates.  Exhibition catalogue
2003                Eloge de l’immobilite et du silence. Exhibition catalogue
2000                In-Side.  Laura White and RAIR Experimental.  Exhibition catalogue
1999                Laura White:  Everything you do counts here.  Exhibition catalogue
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