Laura Ford  (British, 1961) 

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Laura Ford Biography
1961   Born in Cardiff
1978 - 1982   Bath Academy of Art, BA Hons
1982 - 1983   Chelsea School of Art, MA Sculpture
1985 - 1986   Travelled and lectured in India
1989 - 1990   West Bromwich Town Centre, WBC/PADT
1993   Chiltern Sculpture Trail, Oxford
1997   Surrey Docks/Dockland Development Agency
1998   British High Commission, Ottowa
2001 - 2002   Swiss Cottage Children’s Library, London
  Lives and works in London
  Collections
  Tate Gallery, London
  National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff
  Museum of Art, University of Iowa
  Arts Council of Great Britain
  Contemporary Art Society
  Unilever plc
  Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
  Penguin Books
  Government Art Collection
  Oldham Art Gallery
  New Art Gallery, Walsall
  Visvim, Tokyo
  Elspeth & Imogen Turner Collection, Lancashire
  V&A Museum, London
  Gateway Foundation, San Francisco
  Frederik Meijer Sculpture Park, Michigan
  David Roberts Collection
  Jupiter Artland, UK
  Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg
  Grants and Awards
  2006 Scottish Arts Council
  1995 Henry Moore Foundation Award
  1993 British Council
  1989 Glasgow City of Culture
  1998 + 89 Arts Council of Great Britain
Selected Exhibitions
2011   Laura Ford, Masayuki Koorida, David Nash, Jaume Plensa, Timm Ulrichs, Ludwig Museum, Deutschherrenhaus Koblenz, Germany. To be integrated into the Bundesgartenschau 2011
2011   Laura Ford, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan (solo)
2010   Laura Ford, Museum und Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany (solo)
2010   The Art of the Fairy Tales, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
2009   Blickachsen 7, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Frankfurt
2009   Laura Ford, Altana Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany (solo)
2009   Laura Ford, Durham Art Gallery & Museum, UK (solo)
2008   Disagreeable People, Houldsworth, London (solo)
2008   Laura Ford, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany (solo)
2008   Laura Ford, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire (solo)
2008   To Nature, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
2008   Aesthetics of Similarity, curated by Dr Oliver Zybok, Prague Triennale, Prague
2008   Lustwarande 08 – Wanderland, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, de Oude
2008   Warande and De Pont Museum, The Netherlands
2008   Sculpture at Pilane – Contemporary Sculpture in a Prehistoric
2008   Landscape, Sweden, curated by Peter Lennby
2008   Children in Conflict, Aberdeen Art Gallery
2007   Sleeping and Dreaming, Wellcome Collection, London
2007   Children in Conflict, Wolverhampton Art Museum, Wolverhampton
2007   Wild Wood, PS1, Leeds
2007   Tamed and Framed, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston
2007   Tech-Mac-Mayacom, Mynouchikan, Tokyo, Japan
2007   Rag and Bone, Contemporary Art Society, The Economist Plaza, London (solo)
2007   Rag and Bone, commissioned by Turner Contemporary, Margate (solo)
2006   Armour Boys, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (solo)
2006   Laura Ford – Beast, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (solo)
2005   SomeWhere Else, 51st Venice Biennale (solo)
2004   Wreckers, Houldsworth Gallery, London (solo)
2004   Wreckers, Beaconsfield, London (solo)
2004   The Great Indoors, Gillingham Gallery, Kent (solo)
Literature
2008   New York Times, Museum Review, Headthinker, 29 January 2008
2008   TimeOut, Disagreeable People exhibition review, 2-8 January 2008
2007   Headthinkers featured on Newsnight, BBC1, 30 Nov 2007
2007   Planet Magazine, “Emotions in 3D” interview with Tony Curtis, December 2007
2007   Guardian Guide, Rag and Bone exhibition review, 20 October 2007
2007   A-N Magazine, Wildwood exhibition review, October 2007
2007   Sculpture Today by Judy Collins, published by Phaidon
2007   ArtIt Magazine, Tech Mac Mayacom exhibition review, August 2007
2007   Dazed & Confused, October 2007
2006   Armour Boys Catalogue (Essay by Duncan McLaren)