WORK OF THE WEEK : Laura Ford, ‘Nature Girls’, 1996
Laura Ford
Nature Girls, 1996
Bronze
Laura Ford (b.1961) creates imaginative and fantastical figures - often in bronze - that are simultaneously endearing and uncanny. Ford's bronze sculptures depict characters that sit on the precipice of a dream and nightmare. As the artist put it herself, ‘her sculptures are faithful representations of fantasy with sometimes bitter sweet and menacing qualities mixed with tenderness'.
Laura Ford represented Wales in the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Notable solo shows have taken place at the Camden Arts Centre, the Arnolfini, Bristol, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, USA and Strawberry Hill, London.
Laura Ford's work is included in many public collections including the Government Art Collection, the Tate Collection, National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, Frederik Meijer Sculpture Park, Michigan, USA and The Gateway Foundation, St. Louis, USA.
Conifer Girl
Bronze
110 x 75 cm / 3ft 7 x 2ft 5 in.
Bush Girl
Bronze
100 x 45 cm / 3ft 3 ⅜ x 1ft 5 in.
Stump Girl
Bronze
90 x 40 cm / 2ft 11 ⁷⁄₁₆ x 1ft 3 ¾ in.