Laura Wilson: Black Top at Whitstable Biennale 2014

I will be presenting a new work entitled Black Top at the Whitstable Biennale 2014.
The opening is this Saturday 31 May - there is a bus leaving from London. Click here for details. 
If you can't make the opening weekend the festival is running until the 15 June.

Below is further information about my work on the Whitstable Biennale website:

BLACK TOP
Whitstable Harbour
Dead Man's Corner
31 May-15 June
Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm

Laura Wilson makes sculpture, installations, drawings, video and performances. Process plays an important part in her work, as both a way of creating the work and and woven into the final works themselves. Often working with unglamorous materials such as bricks, tarmac or light bulbs, Wilson’s work appears subtle and understated. However, in the process of building and dismantling she is able to reveal the true nature of these bare materials.

Wilson’s research project Black Top centres around the industrial factory of Brett’s Aggregates which has been a feature of Whitstable Harbour since the 1930s. Since October 2013 Wilson has been visiting Whitstable investigating the manufacturing process of aggregates: from the importation of raw materials by sea via the Pluto, to the operation of the factory by its employees, through to the application of the product in roads and car parks. Wilson’s research will be presented as a film accompanied by a sculptural work.

Whitstable biennale 2014 artists announced

Whitstable Biennale 2014 artists announced

The 7th Whitstable Biennale 31 May to 15 June 2014

Rosa Ainley • The ARKA Group • Bronwen Buckeridge • Martin John Callanan • Collaborative Research Group • Louisa Fairclough • S Mark Gubb • Neil Henderson • Susannah Hewlett • Max Leonard Hitchings • Ben Judd • Fiona James • Una Knox • Hannah Lees • Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski • Rachel Lichtenstein • Force Majeure • Louisa Martin • Jeremy Millar • Katrina Palmer • Colin Priest • Abigail Reed • Kieren Reed • Rachel Reupke • Margaret Salmon • John Walter • Laura Wilson • Richard Wilson and Zatorski + Zatorski

Screening programme by Mark Aerial Waller


Whitstable Biennale is supported by:

Arts Council England • Canterbury City Council • Kent County Council • University of Kent • Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Scrapbook for 'Josephine and I'

Here are some photographs of Cush Jumbo on the set of 'Josephine and I' at The Bush Theatre with the Scrapbook I made for the play.

 

Chiquita for Josephine, 2013

Chiquita for Josephine, 2013
Hand coloured digital print with watercolour on archival paper
40.6 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 50 + 5 AP, signed and numbered
Price £95 (unframed)

I have produced a limited edition print for Josephine and I, written and performed by Cush Jumbo and directed by Phyllida Lloyd at the Bush Theatre (Friday 12 July-Saturday 17 August 2013). If you would like to buy a print, it is on sale from the Bush Theatre box office, or alternatively email me directly on laurawil@gmail.com

Also, I collaborated with Cush on an artwork for the play - a print - which could be used anywhere on the set, photos will follow later this week.

Images of Somewhat Double Stop at Testbed1

Images from my new performance Somewhat Double Stop as part of Nightworks at Testbed1 on 10 April.
Photos: Manuela Barczewski.

Nightworks: Wednesday 10 April, 7-9pm

NIGHTWORKS at Testbed1
Wednesday 10th April 2013 - 7pm

Nightworks is a film and video installation and performance event including artists, filmmakers and tutors mainly from the Visual Communication programme at the Royal College of Art.  This one night event offers a dynamic engagement with the location and audience, featuring new and existing work, some made specifically for TESTBED1, a former Victorian dairy.

Featuring;
Maria Anastassiou
Suky Best
Amy Dickson
Nicky Hamlyn
Neil Henderson
Deniz Johns
Jennifer Nightingale
Simon Payne
Gareth Polmeer
Karolina Rackzynski
Cathy Rogers
Ian Wiblin
Laura Wilson

Testbed1, 33 Parkgate Road, London, SW11 4NP (in the same building as The Doodlebar)
Doors open at 7.00pm, Performances start at 7.30pm – 9.00pm.  Bar available.  Facebook  Website

Photos from Brick Project at Turner Contemporary

 

Laura Wilson, Brick Project at Turner Contemporary, February 2013

Photos: Jo Brinton

Thanks to all who came yesterday to Brick Project at Turner Contemporary. The talk focused on the production and history of Yellow Stock bricks which are made locally in Kent, they are a distinctive pale yellow colour with various irregularities created during the firing process. 

Today these bricks are produced via an automated process by the Smeed Dean Brick Works in Sittingbourne, this is the last remaining bricks in Kent and the only place in the UK which produces the yellow stock brick. 

Thank you to Smeed Dean Works and Weinerberger for supplying the bricks for the talk.