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Laura Aldridge (born in 1978) from Frimley a small town in England. Growing up Laura was surrounded by a working farm and fields. She was given a lot of space, physical and mental to figure things out. Laura Aldridge works between wall-based constructs that she describes as ‘expanded collage’. Aldridge studied at the Wimbledon School of Art which she led onto complete her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. She drives to build a scene that connects with the viewer of her work. Laura Aldridge is interested in relationships between people, materials, experiences, and a language of comparison as opposed to having favourite things in life.

Laura explores art using a range of materials, most notably fabric, images, ceramics and glass for her sculptures. Creating a collage effect when installing, her work often focuses on the sense of touch from the viewers. In 2006, at the age of 27, Laura Aldridge received The Dewar Arts award after her final show in Tramway, Glasgow, which helped with financial support towards her first exhibition. Laura worked as a gallery assistant at ‘Serpentine Gallery’, as well as volunteering at The Photographers gallery collaborating on a project and having her own studio to continue making artwork between her degree at Wimbledon College of art and her MFA from Glasgow School of Art, as it was advised from the course leader to have some hands-on experience in the art world before starting the course. After her MFA at Glasgow Laura spent two years on the committee at Transmission Gallery and then took up a residency in Amsterdam. In 2016, Laura Aldridge published a book called ‘Go Woman Go!’ in partnership with women from Abuja after travelling to Nigeria and holding workshops.

Aldridge’s most recent exhibition was from the 19th of June – 29th of August 2021, her exhibition is called ‘sumVigor’. This exhibition has 10 new works that Aldridge has completed in the last couple months during the lockdown period. Aldridge has had many exhibitions throughout the years, the earliest one dating back to 2007. Aldridges’ exhibitions don’t just happen in the one city, she’s had her exhibitions in many cities, such as her exhibition called, ‘Rubbernecking in the stacks’ with Greene exhibitions in Los Angeles, which went from 23/08 – 11/10/2014, another one was ‘TG – Generation’ which was in a travelling gallery which went around different locations in Scotland, which was also in 2014, from 18/07 to the 14/11. She has also had a few solo exhibitions, one of them was ‘#fromKStoyou’ which took place in Kunsthalle Stavenger, Norway from 18/12/2020 to 31/01/2021.