Originally from London, Laura Aldridge currently lives and works in Glasgow. She graduated from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2006, where she undertook an academic exchange to the MFA programme at The California Institute for the Arts (Calarts), Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include: Marks and Comments, Museum for Contemporary Art, Rosskilde, Denmark, Precarious Renderings, Market Gallery, Glasgow, and a three person show at Intermedia, Glasgow. She was selected to participate in The Fairbairn Programme at Cove Park, Scotland 2007.

above:
left - Radical Facial Jewellery (lois)
digital print
2006
right - Radical Facial Jewellery
clay, string, gumsheild and wooden stand
2006

right:
Model for IT
paper, wood, polystyrene, photograph, pots
2007
installation view, Intermedia Glasgow

top:
Personal Triumph of the sculptural genius
mixed media
installation view Tramway, Glasgow
2006





Aldridge’s practice is based upon the presentation of sculptural props and modular elements in the building of a scene or setting. Works typically engage the viewer with a brash and deliberate physicality embodying the artist’s interest in directness and its possibilities for undermining and revealing the implicit rhetoric in the presentation of a work of art.