Laura Ford Overview

Laura Ford, one of the foremost female sculptors currently working in the UK, came to prominence in the British Art Show 5 2000, organised by the Hayward Gallery. Countless audiences have fallen under the spell of Ford’s cast of unlikely characters,... [more]

Laura Ford, one of the foremost female sculptors currently working in the UK, came to prominence in the British Art Show 5 2000, organised by the Hayward Gallery. Countless audiences have fallen under the spell of Ford’s cast of unlikely characters, which includes suicide bomber bunnies, elephant boys, five legged donkeys, and girl assassins to name but a few. 

Ford's socially and politically charged figures hover precariously between the realms of fantasy and reality. they are both wryly humorous and deeply unsettling, probing at the boundaries between what is seen and what is understood. Ford works with a variety of materials, often using what is to hand, from fabric and found objects, to more traiditonal materials such as bronze and plaster. Hers is a practice which refuses the traditional terms of sculpture, to ask deeper and more pertinent questions of the material and the viewer.

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