About
Laura Campbell
is an Oxford based artist and MFA student who recently graduated from York St John University. Her practice is informed by research into disability and personal representation, using writing, printmaking, painting, and performance as recurring expressive elements of communication. Her practice aims to contribute to conversations surrounding disability within the visual arts whilst researching how her own disability fits in socio-political spheres within the contemporary fine arts. Campbell uses her body through performance and photography processes, creating a vessel to communicate concepts of ability, pain, and extension, whilst providing direct political commentary and discourse on social policy and accessibility. Her work aims to challenge patriarchal and ableist political ideology, whilst navigating her disabled bodily experience through the current political climates that force her to justify her existence and value as a disabled woman and artist.
EXPERIENCE
MFA Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University 2021- Current
BA Fine Art at York St John University, 2018- 2021, First Class Honours Degree
Participating Artist in Oxfordshire Artsweek 2022
Public Art Installation Murmuration in collaboration with the Oxfordshire County Council and the Oxfordshire County Library for the Oxfordshire Human Rights Festival 2022
Public Origami Workshops in collaboration with Origami Pulse for the Oxfordshire Human Rights Festival 2022
Dream Factory Exhibition at Ovada Gallery in Oxford 2021
Artist Residency with Ahh Collective in Malton 2021
Art Practice Award 2021
York St John University Degree Show Exhibition 2021
Winter Show Exhibition 2021
Prize Winner for The Eleanor Worthington Prize on Art and Disability 2020
Mid-Semester Showcase Exhibition 2020
Assisted in Technical Life Drawing Sessions 2020
Untamed Formations Exhibition in Stamford Hospital 2016
PUBLISHED WORK
Artists Responding To: Contemporary Art, Culture and Activism Magazine Winter Issue 1 2022
Haus A Rest: Art and Our Health Issue 20 2021
The Social Distance Art Project New Graduate Catalogue 2021
Aesthetica Magazine Online 2021
The Eleanor Worthington Prize Online Website 2020