Biography
Biography
Laura Moreton-Griffiths is British artist, writer and curator working in London.
She has exhibited widely, including Everything Forever, an online exhibition in collaboration with Silicon Valet, Montez Press Radio NY, Off Site Project and New Critique (2021); 302_Direct in collaboration with this is tomorrow, Montez Press Radio NY, Low_Res_Camera_Roll and ‘& Inevitable bedding within’ circulated by the ICA, London (2020); Spike Island Open Studios (Studio 105), Bristol (2019); Craft+Conflict, Rural Touring Scheme: Cumbria, Co Durham & Northumberland (2018), London Creative Network SPACE / LCN Showcase 2nd Edition at SPACE, London (2017); Truth Lies Within at Phytology, The Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, London and The Subculture Archives, Carnaby Street, London (2017). Collaborative projects include: PeerSocial hosted by Raven Row (2020) and Cubitt (2019) supported by Artquest Peer Forum; Pillow Talk at Austrian Cultural Forum and Uniqlo Tate Lates February, Tate Modern, London (2018); One Nation Under a Groove live drawing event, Festival of Love, Southbank Centre, London (2015), amongst others.
Her work is held in private collections in the UK and internationally. She is Resident Artist for the Museum of Youth Culture. Since 2016 her practice is focussed on creating immersive storytelling events.
Laura teaches and programmes peer review and artist talks. She is co-programmer of the Arts Council England supported Her Art-Story Talks. Speakers include Dr Althea Greenan with Barby Asante, Melanie Jackson with Erika Tan, Cathy Lomax with Eleanor Moreton, Laura Lancaster with Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Cathy Lomax with Cathie Pilkington RA, Irini Papadimitriou with Nye Thompson, Annabel Dover with Nadia Hebson, and Mel Brimfield with Sally O’Reilly. Other talks that she has programmed include Elsa and the Urinal by Dr Glyn Thompson; Feminism, the Near Future and Non-Linear Time with Nina Power and Victoria Browne, and In Conversation with Marvin Gaye Chetwydn for ArtVerve magazine.
Laura is due to graduate with from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Contemporary Art Practice, Critical Practice in 2021. Other studies include: The Royal Drawing School Drawing Intensive Scholarship Programme (2019); Turps Correspondence Course (2016-2019); Camberwell College of Art BA Painting (2005-2008); ARTEC Interactive Multimedia (1993); St Martins School of Art, Foundation (1986).
| Education | |
| 2019-21 | Royal College of Art, MA Contemporary Art / Practice Critical Practice |
| 2019 | The Royal Drawing School, Drawing Intensive Scholarship Programme |
| 2016-19 | Turps Painters Correspondence Course (Painting) |
| 2005-08 | Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, BA (Hons) Painting |
| 1993 | ARTEC, Interactive Multimedia |
| 1986 | St Martins School of Art, Foundation |
| Awards | |
| 2020 | Arts Council England Emergency Response Fund Award |
| 2017 | Arts Council England Award Grants for the Arts Award |
| Residencies | |
| 2020 | PeerSocial hosted by Raven Row, London (group recipient) |
| 2018-19 | Artquest PeerSocial at Cubitt, London (group recipient) |
| 2017-20 | Resident Artist at the Museum of Youth Culture, London |
| 2017 | London Creative Network programme at SPACE, London |
| 2016 | Residency at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, London |
| 2014 | Finders Keepers, SLWArtists Residency at Conway Hall, London |
| Talks | |
| 2021 | Co-producer Her Art-Story Series 3 with Matt Roberts |
| For SLWArtists: DACS, Matt Roberts Arts and Gita Joshi, The Curators Salon | |
| 2020 | Co-producer Her Art-Story Series 2 with Matt Roberts, featuring: Cathy Lomax & Cathie Pilkington at Bow Arts; Nye Thompson & Irini Papadimitriou; Nadia Hebson & Annabel Dover; Mel Brimfield & Sally O’Reilly, supported by Arts Council England |
| 2019 | Co-producer Her Art-Story Series 1 with Matt Roberts, featuring:Althea Greenan & Barby Asante at The Lightbox, Woking; Melanie Jackson & Erika Tan at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University; Cathy Lomax & Eleanor Moreton at Block 336, Brixton; Laura Lancaster & Laura Moreton-Griffiths, South Hill Park, Bracknell, supported by Arts Council England |
| 2019 | Elsa and the Urinal by Dr Glyn Thompson for SLWArtists |
| 2017 | Feminism, Non Linear Time and the Near Future with Nina Power and Victoria Browne, supported by Arts Council England |
| Awards | |
| 2015 | Southwark Arts Forum Visual Arts Award shortlisted for Finders Keepers, SLWArtists Residency |
| Southwark Arts Forum Community Arts Award nomination for Finders Keepers, SLWArtists Residency | |
| The Big Draw Award Runner Up for Hidden Narratives Dangerous Erasions, SLWArtists | |
| 2013 | Southwark Arts Forum Visual Arts Award for The Dinner Party, SLWArtists |
| Selected | |
| 2020 | PeerSocial hosted by Raven Row, London |
| 2018 | Constructors Gallery, hoardings at Blackfriars Bridge Southern Side, London |
| Craft+Conflict, Rural Touring Scheme, Cumbria, Co Durham & Northumberland | |
| Altered States, The London Group, The Crypt, St John’s, Waterloo, London | |
| 2017 | London Creative Network SPACE / LCN Showcase 2nd Edition at SPACE, London |
| Rye Winter Open, Rye Creative Centre, Rye, Sussex | |
| Pay And Display, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol | |
| 2016 | Bankley Open, Bankley Studios and Gallery, Manchester |
| 2013 | Inspired London, Fold Gallery, London |
| 2010 | CG @ Deptford X, Core Gallery, London |
| Artworks Open 2010, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London | |
| Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010, London | |
| Exhibitions | |
| 2021 | Everything Forever, an online exhibition in collaboration with Silicon Valet, Montez Press Radio, Off Site Project, New Critique and others |
| 2020 | DATA | GIFT live reading on this is tomorrow, 302_Redirect (16 May) |
| DATA | GIFT on Montez Press Radio, NY, 302_Redirect (27 April) | |
| Low_Res_Camera_Roll, Instagram Takeover, 302_Redirect | |
| Inevitable bedding within’ on YouTube, YouTube, circulated by the ICA, London, 302_Direct | |
| Equinox, St Marylebone Parish Church, London with SLWArtists | |
| RCA WIP Show, Battersea Campus, London | |
| 2019 | Cash is King, Mad In Margate, Artgame, Margate for the Museum of Youth Culture |
| Return of Come Kiss a Stranger, Art Licks, Peckham, London | |
| Pillow Talk: conversations with women at the Austrian Cultural Forum, a collaboration with SLWArtists and the Women’s Art Library, part of Nothing Less! 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage | |
| Work Shop, Bell House, Dulwich Festival, London | |
| Spike Island Open Studios (Studio 105), Bristol | |
| Still Life, Asylum Chapel, London | |
| Gallery Below, St Mary-le-Bow Church Cheapside, London | |
| 2018 | Art Car Boot Fair, Granary Square King’s Cross and Lambeth, London |
| Genesis Light Magic, St John’s Bethnal Green, London | |
| Strong and Stable, Asylum Chapel, London | |
| Why Don’t You?… HQ, Art Licks Weekend, Peckham, London | |
| Dreaming Awake at Safe House 1, Dulwich Festival, Peckham, London | |
| Pillow Talk at Uniqlo Tate Lates February, Tate Modern, London | |
| 2017 | The Lucky Seven Rides Again, Why Don’t You…HQ, Art Licks Weekend, London |
| Truth Lies Within, Phytology, The Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, London | |
| Truth Lies Within, The Subculture Archives, Carnaby Street, London | |
| The Arches Studios Dulwich Open House, Peckham, London | |
| Spike Island Open Studios, | |
| Blink, Market Peckham, SLWArtists, London | |
| 2016 | Olympic Dreams, Market, Peckham, London |
| Pillow Talk at BBC 100 Women, Broadcasting House, London | |
| Hidden Narratives Dangerous Erasions, Women Centre Stage, Hampstead Theatre, London, SLWArtists | |
| Pillow Talk, TEDx UCLWomen, London, SLWArtist | |
| Return of the Lucky Seven, Art Licks Weekend, Peckham, London | |
| Annual Open #32, CGP London | |
| Sluice_ Space and Space Time Agency, The Averard Hotel, London | |
| Pillow Talk, curated by the Women’s Art Library, Brixton East, London, SLWArtists | |
| 2015 | Lucky Seven, Why Don’t You…? Art Licks Weekend, Peckham, London |
| Annual Open #31, CGP London | |
| One Nation Under a Groove live drawing event, Festival of Love, Southbank Centre, London | |
| Eye music, Dulwich Festival, The Arches Courtyard Space, Peckham, London | |
| Say what! Gambardella Art, London | |
| Burlesque & Allegory, Asylum, London | |
| Urban, Brixton East, London, SLWArtists | |
| South London Art Map Last Fridays, The Arches Studios, Peckham, London | |
| 2014 | Finders Keepers Losers Weepers, Conway Hall, London |
| Hidden Narratives Dangerous Erasions, The Albany Theatre, Deptford X, London | |
| Friends Open, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London | |
| The Machine of Visual Delights, Pentapaper at the Alternative Village Fete with Homeliveart, National Theatre, London | |
| Summer Open, The Arches Studios, Peckham, London | |
| South London Art Map Last Fridays, The Arches Studios, Peckham, London | |
| That’s Not What, Hide Gallery Leathermarket, Leathermarket, London | |
| 2013 | A Public Airing, Speakers Corner, Deptford to Parliament Square, The WHYfront, London |
| It’s In The Bag, Hide Gallery Leathermarket, SLWArtists as Parliament Week Partner, London | |
| A Public Airing, Peckham to Canary Wharf, The WHYfront, London | |
| The Fine Art of Ceramics, Hide Gallery Leathermarket, Leathermarket, London | |
| Artlicks Weekend, Hide Gallery Leathermarket, Leathermarket, London | |
| Swimming Against The Tide, Hide Gallery Leathermarket, Leathermarket, London | |
| From The Archive, Bermondsey Street Festival, London | |
| Piece Work, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London | |
| Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition, ASC Studios, Deptford, London | |
| Summer Open, The Arches Studios, Peckham, London | |
| Brixton Art Trail, Brixton Village, London | |
| Curious Exchange, West Norwood Cemetery, London | |
| 2012 | The Dinner Party, SLWArtists at 4749 Tanner St, London |
| Postcard Exhibition, WoW Festival, SLWArtists, The Royal Festival Hall, London | |
| Inspired London, Fold Gallery, London | |
| Between Lines, The Arches Courtyard Space, Peckham, London | |
| International Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham | |
| snap! SLWArtists at Bankside Gallery, London | |
| asylum, Asylum Chapel, London | |
| South London Art Map Last Fridays, The Arches Studios, Peckham, London | |
| Annual Open #28, CGP London | |
| Private Dreams Private Myths, SLWArtists at Dulwich Library, London | |
| 2011 | RyanRooneySpace, Dulwich Open House, London |
| Glimpsed, House Gallery, SLWArtists, London | |
| From Blake to Space, House Gallery, London | |
| South London Art Map Last Fridays, The Arches Studios, Peckham, London | |
| Property crime: Marxist postcard, Toutes Directions, Peckham, London | |
| Open Exhibition, CGP London, London | |
| 2010 | CG @ Deptford X, Core Gallery, London |
| Peckham Space Open, London | |
| Staffordshire Street, Jane Newbery Gallery, London | |
| RyanRooneySpace, Dulwich Open House, London | |
| 2009 | Open at The Arches Studios, Peckham, London |
| RyanRooneySpace, Dulwich Open House, London | |
| Celebrating Women Artists, SLWArtists at Dulwich Library, London | |
| 2008 | Recent Graduates, The Affordable Art Fair, London |
| Open at The Arches Studios, Peckham, London | |
| Open Exhibition, CGP London | |
| BA Degree Show, Camberwell College of Art, London | |
| 2007 | Inside Outside, Mile End Art Pavilion, London |
| Cornered, Centenary Gallery, London | |
| Publications | |
| 2020 | Fiends Issue 5 Democracy |
| As Seen By Her podcast about the implications of COVID-19 on the arts and its future, Talking with journalist Millen Brown-Ewens and Sarah Philp, Director of Programme and policies at Art Fund | |
| 2019 | Kickstarter: 3 months study at the Royal Drawing School |
| Artists Beyond LCN with Kathrin Böhm, LCN Story: Peer Social | |
| 2018 | Conversation with Laura Lancaster at South Hill Park for Her Art-Story Talks |
| Strong and Stable, SLWArtists by Alana Fialkoff for Dulwich on View | |
| PEER FORUM at Cubitt | |
| Kitmapper Instagram feature 12 March 2018 | |
| 2017 | The end is where we start from: history painting the future, Essay by Anna McNay, Assistant Editor, Art Quarterly |
| Axisweb #WEEKLY ROUND UP #HIGHLIGHTS | |
| Feature by London Creative Network at SPACE | |
| Like The Myth of Pandora – Essay by Anna McNay Art writer and Assistant Editor, Art Quarterly, Art-Corpus | |
| Nympenburg Trials, Lighthouse Journal, Gatehouse Press | |
| Matriarchs, Monsters and Feral Children, Wolf Crossing, The Learned Pig Spring/Summer | |
| Olympic Dreams, Art Reveal Magazine p76-81 | |
| 2016 | Marvin Gaye Chetwydn in conversation, ArtVerve Magazine, Issue 6, SLWArtists Publishing |
| Olympic Dreams Zine | |
| Olympic Dreams | |
| Axisweb Homepage callout feature | |
| Women on The Frontline, ArtVerve Magazine, Issue 5, SLWArtists Publishing | |
| n photos: Pillow Talk at Brixton East, Mike Urban, BrixtonBuzz | |
| Liberties Review, ArtVerve Magazine, Issue 4, SLWArtists Publishing | |
| SLWA Art School, ArtVerve, Issue 3, SLWArtists Publishing | |
| Eye music – a rare exhibition, Dulwich OnView | |
| The 365 Artists 365 Days Project, Online publication, Wisconsin | |
| Finders Keepers Losers Weepers, Archaelogy of mind, SLWArtists Publishing | |
| The Dinner Party, SLWArtists Publishing | |
| A PUBLIC AIRING, Feminist & Women’s Studies Association | |
| 2013 | The Personal is Political, UK Parliament |
| Piecework, Catalogue by Jackie Brown, Pia Goddard & Pat Kaey, SLWArtists Publishing | |
| Artist Quarterly Autumn 2013, Tour London Art Trail 4 Peckham p59 | |
| Artlyst Featured Artist 26/07/13 | |
| 200 Magazine, Issue 6, Quarterly magazine, Available online, app & in print p144 | |
| Art of The Week #1, Twenty Something London, Online showcase | |
| A Public Airing, The Feminist and Women’s Studies Association, FWSA Blog | |
| Visual Creativity, 2nd edition, a showcase of painting & illustration | |
| snap! SLWArtists catalogue, text by Dr Lara Perry, Althea Greenan & Sarah Sparkes | |
| 2011 | Landscape = Landskip, Onestepfastforward, Art Architecture Design blog |
| Bankside Exhibition catalogue, SLWArtists Publishing | |
| Women and Books, Exhibition catalogue, SLWArtists Publishing | |
| Brighten Your Life, Dulwich OnView | |
| Glimpsed by Kim Thornton, Dulwich OnView | |
| 2010 | From Blake To Space, Review by Cat Weiner, The Londonist |
| Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010 Exhibition Review by Amelia Gregory, Amelia’s Magazine | |
| Becoming Part of Something, Project blogs by Rosalind Davis, Artists Talking | |
| Pastoral Parody by Anna Maria Di Brina, Dulwich OnView | |
| 2008 | The Affordable Art Fair, Recent Graduates section of catalogue |
| Things Magazine, Online publication, Royal College of Art | |