Compost by Laura Porter

About

Laura’s practice explores the in-betweenness of repurposed materials and built environments, and the energies of consciousness that have been absorbed by these over time. From invisible matter to formal structures, she’s interested in how the man-made can evolve and shift into a quasi-living entity; a reflection of the natural world on which it relies. She re-imagines our material world as neither rigid nor organic - straddling the space between biological and human-made; rural and urban; lived and inactive. 

‘Compost’ is a collection of new 3D works that disrupts the space as much as it pieces it together, threading elements from the outside, inside and the temporal into these transformed material objects. Accompanying the installation is a collection of wall-based sculptures and drawings that explore the slowness and contemplative act of configuring and building. 

Laura Porter is based between North Devon and South London, having studied BA in Fine Art at Middlesex University and an MA in Sculpture at Camberwell (University of the Arts London). Laura has exhibited extensively across the UK, and has been shortlisted for the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize, the Hannah Peschar Sculpture Award and the Collyer Bristow Graduate Award. She has been commissioned to make work for Left Bank Leeds, Arts & Culture Exeter and The Plough Arts Centre, and has received funding from the British Council as part of their Connections Through Culture Programme, with Malaysia-based artist Lee Mok Yee.