Laura Wormell

Laura Wormell (b.1987, London), is a London based artist who completed a BA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2010 followed by two years at the Turps Studio Programme 2019-21. Wormell’s selected exhibitions include: A solo exhibition: I Am Your Creature, Asylum Studios Gallery, Suffolk (2024), Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, UK, Marsupium, ASC Gallery London (2023), To The Birds & Man Digging, touring, St Leonards & Exeter Phoenix Gallery (2023), Twenty Nineteen curated by Neil Zakiewicz, Campbell Works (2023), Curation of I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On at Room Share 2, London (2022), Your Foot in my Face and Other Tectonic Strategies, Kingsgate Project Space, London (2021), In The Manner of Smoke, Alice Black Gallery, London (2018), Lexis Over Land, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden Gallery, Penzance (2017). Laura Wormell is currently a mentor at Turps Art School and member of audio/visual recording project in a skull.

Photograph of Laura Wormell by Julian Hawkins

Under the Laurels- Artwork

Wildly fluttering banners without any inscriptions, vessels that couldn't possibly stand on their own, and enormous heeled shoes feel perfectly at home amid the exuberance and chaos of the pinky-oranges, green-yellows, and dense, suffocating blues. The dynamic stains and sweeps of colour across the canvas interrupt the focus on the subject depicted. The process of making a monotype affords me an opportunity for chance and touch to entwine itself with the image, each piece a record of a fleeting thought or poem in colour.

Under the Laurels