Ford provides us with acutely graphic renditions of human emotion, mental and physical. Her imagery is all about remembering and giving memory clarity.

- Dr. Penelope Curtis

Laura Ford (b.1961) creates imaginative and fantastical figures - often in bronze - that are simultaneously endearing, alluring and uncanny. Using soft fabrics and found objects to create the unique shapes and composition of her figures that she subsequently casts, Ford's resulting bronze sculptures depict characters that sit on the precipice of a dream and nightmare. Indeed, the blackened bronze patina that Ford frequently creates adds greatly to this sense of foreboding.

As the artist put it herself, ‘her sculptures are faithful representations of fantasy with sometimes bitter sweet and menacing qualities mixed with tenderness.’

The sculpture Bird Boy is currently part of the public project, 'The Line' in London. 'The Line' is London's first dedicated modern and contemporary art walk and the route runs between the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2, following the waterways and the line of the Meridian.

Armour Boys, an iconic piece she made as a result of a residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop consists of a group of child-size knights in armour apparently fallen in battle and was first shown at Roche Court in 2006. In 2008 Ford produced new work in bronze for her first solo exhibition at the New Art Centre, including three fairy-tale espaliered trees with human feet and legs.