LAURA MELISSA WILLIAMS
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About

About me

I am passionate about creativity: It’s fuelled everything I've done in my career and life to date.

I've spent 15 years in the creative industries: blending Design, Business and Futures, whilst  building my portfolio as a professional artist.

The golden thread running through my art practice is connection
- with each other and the natural world. I explore the tensions between our raw, natural instincts, culture and the conflicting societal expectations that guide and shape us.

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My work draws on my interest and experience in futures, emerging human behaviours, emotion, empathy, nature, wilderness, systems and science and technology. Participatory process and collaboration is increasingly something I am incorporating into my practice.

The result is a broad-ranging art practice that blends hand-crafted pieces, including sculpture, painting and drawing with digital pieces including projections, audio and sound recordings, film and animation. 

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Professional activities: 
  • 30 art pieces sold across 10 countries and 4 continents
  • 4 private art commissions - two for international clients
  • 2 large-scale corporate art commissions
  • 30 art pieces in corporate offices across London.

My experience as both an art practitioner and a business consultant means I understand the wider creative and contextual factors influencing artists, designers and business people, and the trends and forces impacting the changing world around us.
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​Awards, achievements & activities

CURRENT

Currently studying: MA in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins

NPA Lab 2020: Established x Emerging: sustaining practices


Member of the Wilderness Art Collective -
a collective of artists whose work explores the natural world
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Member of the EXC (Exhibition Collective) - a collective of East London artists

Awardee of the Liberty Speciality Markets New.Platform Art prize (2019) ​

Represented by Artiq - a boutique art rental company (2017 - present) 





PREVIOUS

Art Academy London - BA in Fine Art (2016 - 2020)

Expedition to Louise Arner Boyd Land, Arctic Circle - Sailing in a remote part of Eastern Greenland, the world’s largest National Park with artists and scientists (2018)
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Advisor and art experience designer for Deepr: a design lab exploring empathy-driven connections in society and business. (2018 - 2019)

​Published poet: featured in TimeOut London.  (2014)

International Cultural Leadership Programme - British Council Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurs programme - 3 month residency in Hong Kong and China (2009)

Creative Pioneer Programme - National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA): financial investment & 4 week residency (2005 - 2008)

Northumbria University - First Class honours - BA (Hons) Design For Industry (2004)
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RSA Design Directions - Shortlisted entry (2004)

Spirit of Creation - Design scholarship and 2-week residency (2003)
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  • About
  • Art
    • Future Cities : 2100
    • Electric Connections
    • Modern Love Project
    • Public Toilet Project
    • Project Touch
    • Project Wilderness >
      • Arctic Light
    • Project skies >
      • Moon Landing
      • Pink Moon
      • Northern Lights
      • Flights of fire
    • Cities from Space
  • Field Journal
  • Contact
  • RESIDENCY
    • RESIDENCY INFO