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Solo Exhibitions
2022
Reveal and Conceal, East Quay, Watchet (September 2022)
2021
Gravity is my friend, Galerie Scheffel, Germany
2020
“Playing real pretend”, Howick Place Victoria, London
2019
Laura Ford Squatters, Castell Coch, Tongwynlais, Gallery Ten Cardiff
2018
The stories we tell ourselves, Museum im Kleihues-Bau, Stuttgart, Germany
2017
A King’s Appetite, Brighton Museum and Art gallery (commissioned by HOUSE biennial) Double Agent, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg Germany
Laura Ford, Oslo International Sculpture Exhibition, Norway travelling to Fredriksten fortress and Kristiansten Fort
A foot in both worlds, Laura Ford, Schwetzingen Palace, Germany
2016
Laura Ford, Oslo International Sculpture Exhibition, Norway
Laura Ford, Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany Keepers of the Wall, Cardiff Contemporary, UK
Laura Ford: Sculptures and Drawings at Kunst Galerie fuerth, Germany
Laura Ford: Beauty in the Beast at Pallant House gallery, UK
Keepers, Gallery Ten, Cardiff, UK
Fight or Flight, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
Seen and Unseen, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal and Bowness-on-Windermere, UK
2015
Laura Ford at Strawberry Hill, UK
Laura Ford at Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany
2014
Laura Ford at Baltic Triangle, Liverpool, UK
Laura Ford's Armour Boys at The Summer Exhibition at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales, UK
2013
Laura Ford at Schaetzlerpalais, Augsburg, Germany
2012
Days of Judgment, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
Days of Judgement, Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche und Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany (catalogue)
2011
Laura Ford, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA
New Works and Beast, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2010
Laura Ford, Museum und Galerie im Prediger, Schwäb. Gmünd, Germany
2009
Laura Ford, Durham City Art Gallery, UK
Laura Ford: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen (Sculpture and Drawing), SinclairHaus – ALTANA Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany (catalogue)
2008
Laura Ford, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
Laura Ford: Rag and Bone, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
2007
Rag and Bone, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Disagreeable People, Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
Installation at the Economist Plaza, London, UK
2006
Armour Boys, New Art Centre, Roche Court
Armour Boys, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Laura Ford – Beast, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2005
SomeWhere Else, 51st Venice Biennale
LAURA FORD Some Mothers Sons, Durham Art Gallery
2004
Wreckers, Houldsworth Gallery, London
Wreckers, Beaconsfield, London
2003
Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
The Great Indoors, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno and Glynn Vivian, Swansea (touring)
Headthinkers, Houldsworth Gallery, London
2002
The Great Indoors, Salamanca Centre of Contemporary Art, Spain (catalogue)
New Works, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
2001
Desperados, Houldsworth Gallery, London
1999
Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich (with Jacqui Poncelet)
Arnolfini, Bristol (with Jacqui Poncelet)
1998
Camden Arts Centre, London (with Jacqui Poncelet)
1996
Not Just A Pretty Face, Spacex, Exeter
1994
Jose Freire Project Space, New York, USA
1992
GOD POT, Now 92, Castle Museum, Nottingham
1991
Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
Riverside Studios, London (with Hermione Wiltshire)
1987
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2022
Sculpture forever in the now, The Lightbox @ Victoria Place, Woking, Surrey, UK
2021
The other side of the coin, New Art Centre, Salisbury
Household Name, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Thank you and I mean that very, very sincerely, 303, Lowestoft
Eutopia, Queensrollahouse, London
2020
Beast Exploring the human/animal divide, Tonbridge School, Tonbridge
2019
Parallel Lines: Drawing & Sculpture , Dora House, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
Kensington and Chelsea Arts Festival 2019, Napoleon Gardens, Holland Park, London
2018
Coal Forest, Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland
Gustavsgarten Park,Bad Homburg, Germany
Criminal Ornamentation (curated by Yinka Shonibare), Attenborough Arts Centre Leicester
Royal Albert Memorial Museum Exeter, Longside Gallery Wakefield, Southampton City Art Gallery
21st Century Women, Unit London
Frieze Sculpture Park, Regents Park London
Nr. 2 Umhverfing, Fljotsdalsherad, Iceland
Pilane 2018, Tjorn, Sweden
Animals & Us, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Burns Umbroke, Summerhall Edinburgh
2017
Broken Worlds, Kunstverein Gera, Germany
Broken Worlds, Gallery oqbo, Berlin, Germany
Who Decides? National Museum Cardiff, Wales
New Truth to materials: wood, Ditchling Museum of Art and craft, UK
Blickachsen 11, Bad Homburg, Germany
The Beauty of the Beast, kasteeldursel, Belgium ! ! Entangled, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2016
Think Pieces, CASS Sculpture Foundation, UK Fire Works at Gallery SO, London, UK
Life. Death. Whatever, Sutton House, London, UK
Opening Exhibition at Jakob Halls, Galerie Scheffel, Germany
FOUND at the Foundling Museum, London, UK
Spring Exhibition, Gallery Ten, Cardiff
2015
Gallery Ten, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Obsession, Maison Particulaire, Brussels, Belgium
Vita Vitale, The Azerbaijan Pavillion at the 56th Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Laura Ford’s Major Anythewiser at Pilane Sculpture Park, Sweden Sculpture in the City, London, UK
2014
Committed to paper: Master drawings and prints by sculptors, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA
Donaugalerie 2014 Sculpture Project Tuttlingen, Germany
Sculpture in Pilane, Pilane Sculpture Park, Sweden
Sculptures at Eberbach Monastery, Germany
Here Today, The Old Sorting Office, London
2013
Savage & Tender, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
2Q13 Women Collectors, Women Artists, Lloyd's Club, London Emissary Cats at Blickachsen 9, campus of Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2012
Sculpture at Kloster Eberbach, Kloster Eberbach Foundation, organised by Galerie Scheffel, Germany
Skulpturen, Laura Ford, Jaume Plensa, David Nash and Masayuki Koorida at Museum Bad , Arolsen, Germany
2011
Ford - Abakanowicz, LWL-Industriemuseum Westfälisches , Landesmuseum für Industriekultur, TextilWerk Bocholt, Germany
New Paradises, Sculpture Garden of Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Germany
Apocalypse Now, Niew Dakota Amsterdam, Netherlands
Placement, St Andrews Museum, Scotland
Placement, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales
LOWCS art in the city, Swansea, Wales
Beflügelt - Zum Motiv des Vogels in der Kunst des 20. und 21.
Jahrhunderts, Stiftung BC-pro arte, Biberach, Germany
Unlängst im Wald, Zentrale der Bayerischen Staatsforsten, Regensburg, Germany
2010
Märchenkunst, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany (catalogue)
Garten-natürlich künstlich, Kunstforum Seligenstadt, Ehemalige
Benediktinerabtei, Seligenstadt, Germany
Skulptur I, Pilane, Sweden
Skulpturensommer im Kloster Eberbach, Galerie Scheffel, Eltville, Germany
LAURA FORD BIOGRAPHY Neue Kunst in alten Gärten, Obergut Lenthe / Lenthe Manor, Gehrden-Lenthe, Germany
Scultura Internazionale a Racconigi, Racconigi Castle, Piedmont, Italy
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, with Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin, Rachel Kneebone, Damien Hirst.
Provenance, Gallery Live, Bath Spa University, UK Deadpan, The Royal Standard, Liverpool.
2009
Skulptur I, Pilane, Sweden Blickachsen 7, Kurpark, Bad Homburg, Germany
2008
Skulptur I, Pilane, Sweden
Wanderland 2008, Fundament Foundation, Tilberg Niederlande, Netherlands
Sculpture in Pilane, Sweden
2007
Tech-Mac-Mayacom, Tokyo, Japan
Blickachsen 6, Kurpark, Bad Homburg, Germany
Collezionami, 2nd Biennal of Southern Italy, Bratislavia
2006
Somewhere Else, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales
Breakers, PM Gallery, London
2005
Kinderszenen (Childs Play), Rohkunstbau, Berlin with Louise Bourgeois, Jake & Dinos Chapman
Public Art Project, Look Ahead Housing, in collaboration with Liz Freemont
Strata, Strata Florida, Wales touring to Kells, Ireland
Figuratively Speaking, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
Size Matters: Exploring Scale in the Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery touring show, UK
2004
Artist’s Favourites (selected by Yinka Shonibare), ICA, London
Per Head, John Hansard Gallery
Into My World: Recent British Sculpture, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut (Laura Ford, Matt Franks, Roger Hiorns, Mariele Neudecker, Mike Nelson, Saskia Oldfarbers, Jim Lambie, David Thorpe)
Disguise, Manchester City Art Gallery
2003
Engineer – group show, Beaconsfield, London.
The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
2002
Domestic Landscape, Bath
Ceramica: Sleepers, Treffry Gallery, Royal Cornwall Museum, Cornwall
Home Collection, London
2001
New Acquisitions, National Museum of Wales
Animals in the Workplace, Canary Wharf, London
Telling, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
2000
Little Angels, Houldsworth, London
British Art Show 5, a National Touring Exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery London
Shows in Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff and Birmingham Bronze, Holland Park, London
1999
Animal, Museum Antoine Bordelle, Paris Sculpture at Goodwood
1998
Fun de Siècle, Walsall Museum New Art from Britain, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Figurative Sculpture, Flowers East, London
1997
Rebel Angels, Walsall Museum
1996
Private View, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Leeds Sculpture At Goodwood
1995
It’s a Pleasure, Royal Festival Hall, London
Art Casino, Barbican Centre, London
Cabinet Pictures, Jason Rhodes Gallery, London
1992
Summer Lightning, Seamans Hospital, Greenwich, Wise
Taylor Partnership, toured to Los Angeles Physical Encounter, including Helen Chadwick and Laura Godfrey Isaacs, Gardner Centre, Brighton
1990
Sculptors’ Drawings, New York Studio School, New York
Ariadne (performance with Anne Griffin), Tron, Glasgow; Queen Elizabeth Hall, London;
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell and Arnolfini, Bristol 1989 Ariadne, The Pheonix, Leicester;
The Grand, Wolverhampton; The Pegasus, Oxford; The Place, London
1988
The Deadly Grove (performance with Anne Griffin) Battersea Arts Centre, London;
Third Eye ! ! Centre, Glasgow;
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Castle Museum, Nottingham;
LAURA FORD BIOGRAPHY LAURA FORD Prema Arts Centre, Gloucestershire;
Oval House, London;
Whitechapel Open, London The Wedding, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield Laura Ford Paintings and Drawings, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1987
Big Drawings, East Street Studios, Canterbury Laura Ford, Nicola Jacobs Self Portrait, A Modern View, Artiste Gallery, Bath (touring)
1986
Sculpture in the City, Bath Menagerie, Yorkshire Sculpture Park Third Generation of Women Sculptors Today, Canterbury
1985-84
Metaphor and/or Symbol, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
1985
New Work by Laura Ford and Andrew Sabin, Temporary Shop Show, Islington, London
New Works, 7 Dials, London (curated by Richard Pomeroy)
1983
The Sculpture Show, Hayward and Serpentine Galleries, London
Sculpture New Directions, Cleveland Arts Centre, Middlesborough
1982
Northern New Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester New Contemporaries, ICA, London
Public Commissions
2020 Bird Boy (without tail),The Royal Docks, London
2015 Emissary Cats, City of Iserlohn, Germany 2014 A&E Monkeys at Southmead Hospital, Bristol
2013 Emissary Cats, Shanghai Sculpture Park, China
2012 University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
2009 City of Stockholm, Sweden Gateway Foundation, St. Louis, USA
2007 Look Ahead, Short Term Housing Project, London
2006 Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh 2002 Swiss Cottage Children’s Library, London
1998 British High Commission, Ottowa
1997 Surrey Docks/Dockland Development Agency, London
1993 Chiltern Sculpture Trail, Oxford
1989-90 West Bromwich Town Centre, WBC/PADT Collections ! ! Atkinson Collection, UK Château Vullierens, Switzerland Tate Gallery, London, UK National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, Wales Museum of Art, University of Iowa, USA Arts Council of Great Britain, UK Unilever plc, London, UK Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Penguin Books, UK Government Art Collection, UK Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, UK New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK Visvim, Tokyo, Japan Shanghai Sculpture Park, China Warwick University Glynn Vivian museum, Swansea, Wales Bundesbank, Germany