Laura Ford

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

Life

Ford grew up in a showman 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 her bachelor's degree. She received her Masters degree in Art from the Chelsea School of Art in 1983 . She then traveled through India with her partner and fellow sculptor Andrew Sabin, where they taught art courses.

Exhibitions

Ford has shown her work in over 20 solo and so far (2011) over 45 group exhibitions. Her works are in collections at the Tate Gallery in London, Penguin Books and Prudential . The museums of Stoke-on-Trent , the Arts Council of Great Britain and the State Museum of Wales also display their sculptures. Ford represented Wales at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. In 2009 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , Blickachsen 7 could be seen in the exhibition of sculptures by renowned international sculptors . In 2012 a selection of her sculptures was on view in the Scheffel Gallery in Bad Homburg. The LWL-Industriemuseum then compared its exhibits with the work of Magdalena Abakanowicz . This exhibition closed with a performance by Claudius Reimann in the Textile Museum in Bocholt . In 2013, some of her works were displayed in front of the IG tower at Goethe University , Frankfurt am Main, as part of Blickachsen 9.

Sculptures (selection)

  • "Espaliered woman III" ; Cast bronze, BUGA 2011 Koblenz, loan from Galerie Scheffel

  • Rag collector with bin

  • Rag collector with bag

  • Ragman

  • Rag collector with blanket

  • Emissary Cat (The emissaries Cat)
    bronze sculpture, 2013

Prices

The Iserlohn Art Prize was awarded to the artist in November 2016 .

literature

  • Abakanowicz: Ford / Ford: Abakanowoicz (2011). An exhibition in collaboration with Galerie Scheffel, Bad Honburg . Bad Homburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0658-7 .
  • Laura Ford: Catalog for the traveling exhibition Sinclair House - ALTANA Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg 2009, Museum & Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2010, and Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA) 2011. Text by Mark Gisbourne (German /English); Edition Scheffel, Bad Homburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-926546-54-8 .
  • Laura Ford: Catalog, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, by David Lomas, English, ISBN 84-95719-28-2 , 2002, ISBN 978-84-95719-28-7 .

Web links

Commons : Laura Ford  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview - Solo show: Laura Ford - Disagreeable People - Pippy Houldsworth Gallery ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artfacts.net
  2. ↑ LWL press release
  3. ↑ Ulrich Steden: Iserlohn Art Prize is awarded again. In: Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and newspaper. September 3, 2016, accessed September 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Markus Sell: Iserlohn Art Prize 2016 goes to England. (No longer available online.) In: European News Agency . September 6, 2016, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.european-news-agency.de
personal data
SURNAME Ford, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff , Wales