Laura Moreton-Griffiths
British artist and writer, born in Nuneaton, England, in 1967. She grew up in London, where she lives and works.
Her education includes an MA in Contemporary Art Practice, Critical Practice from the Royal College of Art in 2021 and a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Art in 2008. She has also engaged in various studies, such as The Royal Drawing School Drawing Intensive Scholarship Programme (2019), the Turps Correspondence Course (2016–19), and Interactive Multimedia at The ARTEC (1993) where she stayed on to teach, going on to work as Multimedia Programmer and Creative Director. Her artistic experiences encompass participation in projects like Year of Making, SPACE Clarence Mews residency for performance makers led by choreographer Caroline Salem in 2022, DOOResidency in Amsterdam in 2021, and PeerSocial at Raven Row (2020) and Cubitt Gallery (2018–19). In 2021 Future’s Venture Foundation supported her writing of speculative fiction. She teaches performance and life class and programmes peer review and artist talks. Highlights include Her Art-Story Talks, supported by Arts Council England, co-programmed with Matt Roberts Arts and co-hosting an RCA talk with Hito Steyerl (2021). Moreton-Griffiths served on the Board of Trustees for SLWArtists (2008-2020) facilitating the professional development of women artists at all stages of their careers. Her creative endeavours extends to collections in the Women’s Art Library and private collections both in the UK and internationally. She is Resident Artist for the Museum of Youth Culture.
Recent notable exhibitions and written contributions include Water, speculative fiction published in Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, Process: Vol. 17, No. 1: The Future (2023); Soft Apocalypse, Rehearsing How We Change the World, hosted at Space Clarence Mews (2023); That the living may know the features of your face, a live performance as part of The Baroness group exhibition dedicated to Dada artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven at Mimosa House, London (2022); Being Duchamp Becoming Elsa, a Silent Movie for the Southwark Festival of Words at Dulwich Library and Canada Water Library (2022); The Comrades They Were Brave. We Salute You! showcased at GRS44 Gallery, Bloomsbury, London (2022); Waiting Rooms exhibited at tactileBosch in Cardiff (2021); Everything Forever, an online collaboration with Silicon Valet, Montez Press Radio NY, Off Site Project, and New Critique (2021); 302_Direct in partnership with this is tomorrow, Montez Press Radio NY, Low_Res_Camera_Roll, and ‘& Inevitable bedding within,’ circulated by the ICA, London (2019); South of the River, a hoarding installation for The Constructors Gallery at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, supported by Transport for London and Southwark Council (2019); Art Car Boot Fair (2018); Pillow Talk at Austrian Cultural Forum and Uniqlo Tate Lates in February, Tate Modern, London (2018); Craft+Conflict, presented through Rural Touring Scheme in Cumbria, Co Durham & Northumberland (2017); Truth Lies Within exhibited at Phytology, The Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, London, and The Subculture Archives, Carnaby Street, London (2017), among numerous others.