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Every step of their adventure - [STREET SHOW ~ PIÑA & COLADADA WITH BUM NOTES ~ 27 AUGUST 6PM ~ LOWER MARSH LATES, WATERLOO](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/7506-2/) - Providing the pre-show entertainment at Lower Marsh Lates - Piña & Coladada with Bum Notes are on a heroic quest for love. Join us this Thursday at Waterloo for a lively, family-friendly evening of arty performance and free outdoor cinema. Thursday 27 August Arrive 5.45pm Show time 6pm ~ If You Like Piña Coladas - [NATURAL RHYTHM AND OTHER MORAL PANIC ~ SEAGER ~ 15 OCTOBER ~ GROUP SHOW CURATED BY LUCY SONI](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/natural-rhythm-and-other-moral-panic-seager-15-october-group-show-curated-by-lucy-soni/) - SEAGER Distillery Tower 2 Mill Lane London SE8 4HP Open during exhibitions: Thursday to Saturday, 1pm-5pm and by appointment. - [WHAT’S IN YOUR DRAWS ~ GROUP SHOW AT THE STONE SPACE 03-27 SEPTEMBER 2026](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/whats-in-your-draws-the-stone-space-03-27-september/) - Under assumed personas, Lito Apostolakou and Kim Thornton explore identity as a fragmented, and performative space, conjuring, with a little help from their friends, an interactive installation of hundreds of cardboard drawers. WHAT'S IN YOUR DRAWERS questions the boundary between private and public, intimate and performative, familiar and uncanny. Drawers become portals to hidden selves, - [INVITATION TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT ~ BROCKLEY OPEN STUDIOS SATURDAY 04 JULY 2026](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/invitation-to-something-different-brockley-open-studios-04-july-2026/) - Looking for Love in Brockley. Piña & Coladada are back - with Bum Notes. Join us for Brockley Open Studios: a surreal romp in the pursuit of love with Sasha Bowles, Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Rebecca Glover and Colin Humphries. The more the merrier. Dating is not what it used to be, But we have high hopes. - [THE ANTIC FOLLIES NIGHT OF CABARET! JAMBOREE 03 MAY 2026](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/7437-2/) - The Antic Follies present a spectacular Sunday night of cabaret, burlesque, comedy and live music! “…the dirty alternative to Soho’s glitz, a diabolical night of cabaret and burlesque” Live Acts from 8.30pm Doors: 8pm Entry Price: £12 / £8 / £15 » Buy Tickets Please note that advance tickets come off sale automatically at - [BLINK PRESENTS ROOM SHARE 9 THE SONI ROOM ~ SAFE HOUSE 1, 17-19 APRIL 2026](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/blink-presents-rblink-presents-room-share-9-the-soni-room-safe-house-1-17-19-april/) - Please join us in The Soni Room for BLINK PRESENTS ROOM SHARE 9. Hot Gods – From Here to Faliraki, an installation of sewn canvas objects, wearable painting and live performance. Good friends Aphrodite and Athena ditch Olympus and hit the beach, bucket, spade, and suncream in hand. Aphrodite, spawned from the severed genitals of - [DRAWING WALKING LONDON - OLYMPIC PARK SUNDAY 24 MAY 2026](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/drawing-walking-london-olympic-park-sunday-24-may/) - Bring your sketchbook, take a breath, and spend the day seeing London a little differently. 11AM-5PM Circling the Olympic Park, exploring a landscape shaped by rapid development and layered histories. Moving through newly built apartments, sculptural interventions, and remnants of industrial space – past graffiti-covered underpasses, winding waterways, and reflective glass façades – participants are - [EVERYTHING FOREVER RCA MA CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE ONLINE FESTIVAL ~ 08-26 MARCH](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/everything-forever-online-festival-08-26-march/) - A collective spirit, a breath of sweet air, circulating, criss-crossing time zones and continents, navigating the virtual, longing for the physical. Energetic ideas jumping from node to node, connecting a networked community of individuals, collectively working to make sense of what makes no sense, having conversations with the past about what is coming. Nodes of - [APPLE BLOSSOM SKY PUBLISHED ON NEW CRITIQUE, JOURNAL OF CRITICAL AND CREATIVE WRITING](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/apple-blossom-sky-on-new-critique/) - [RCA ONLINE SHOW ~ 26 JUNE-04 JULY 2021](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/rca2021-online/) - https://vimeo.com/568372101 'Real life thus began' was commissioned by the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art to commemorate the launch of RCA2021. This short film takes its title from a snapshot of one of the 150+ artists' contributions to this video collage and was constructed by editor and film-maker, Milo Creese. - [RCA MA CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE 2021 SHOW AT CROMWELL PLACE ~ 21-25 JULY 2021](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/rca2021-cromwell-place/) - BEING DUCHAMP BECOMING ELSA I am graduating from the RCA Contemporary Art Practice MA and would like to invite you to my Degree Show. 21 – 25 July10am – 5pm4 Cromwell Place, SW7 2JE * Sunday 2pm in the Pavillion Gallery That the living may know the features of your face In this live performance - [STOP THE SPIKE ISLAND STUDIOS EVICTIONS HAPPENING NOW](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/spike-island-studio-evictions-happening-now/) - The evictions are still happening. As a non-profit art organisation, Spike Island is funded using public money, and we need to question its governance structures and interests. I urge funders, trustees, artists and the public to pressure the management against these evictions. I often visit the Open Studios at Spike Island in Bristol. Each time - [FUTURE'S VENTURE SUPPORT FOR SPECULATIVE FICTION WRITING](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/futures-venture/) - Delighted to announce Future's Venture Foundation are supporting the development of collaboratively written speculative fiction. The Foundation was established in 2015 to support the work of artists making radical work with an ethical focus. More about Future's Venture here. Details of how to get involved coming soon. If you are 18-20 years old and would - [NOT A SPHERE AT DOORESIDENCY ZAANDAM, THE NETHERLANDS ~ 13-19 SEPTEMBER 2021](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/door-amsterdam/) - 'Not a Sphere, but an irregular shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid' - an initiative from an artist collective formed within the Critical Practice MA programme at the Royal College of Art, London, UK.⁠⁠In our quest for transparency, we peer ever deeper into the sphere and its magical estate. As we polish and obsess, the surface - [WAITING ROOM AT TACTILE BOSCH ~ 12-27 NOVEMBER 2021](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/waiting-room-at-tactilebosch-12-28-november-2021/) - Treading tentatively across the threshold, fluorescent lights flicker overhead. A cursory glance at the address reveals that yes, you have arrived at the right location. The scene is mundane in its familiarity, not offering much in the way of amenities; a transient space identical to a thousand before it. Inside, there are others already waiting, - [THE COMRADES THEY WERE BRAVE. WE SALUTE YOU! ~ 17 MARCH TO 10 APRIL 2022](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/exhibiting-next-the-comrades-they-were-brave-we-saluted-you-17-march-10-april-2022/) - Contact The Curator info@ceciliasjohom.com. For any press enquiries please email alison@alisonwrightpr.com. Read the Exhibition Catalogue Online. Download the Exhibition Catalogue. - [BLINK ROOM SHARE 2, SAFEHOUSE 1, PECKHAM ~ 01–03 APRIL](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/blink-room-share-2-sarfehouse1-peckham-1-3-april/) - Lucy Soni sharing with Paul Dickerson, Josephine Kibuka, Matthew Lippiatt, Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Sophie Newel, The Folder Builds and Ella Soni. Dido Hallet and co-curator Catherine Long sharing with Phil Allen, Joshua Armitage, David Buckley, Emma Franks, Ryan Kish, Ansel Krut, Scott McCracken, Lena Pomford, Sukey Sleeper and Hannah Tilson Min Angel sharing with Tony Beaver, - [META ALARM AT BERMONDSEY PROJECT SPACE](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/meta-alarm-at-bermondsey-project-space/) - AN EVENING OF PERFORMANCE & FILM AT BERMONDSEY PROJECT SPACE 183 – 185 BERMONDSEY ST, LONDON SE1 3UW. Thursday 28 April 7 – 9pm. Tickets £8.14 available via Eventbrite. 🚨🚨🚨 The threat of World War Three, climate emergency, supply chain crisis, corporate malfeasance, and life contained in digital worlds. How do you make art in - [WAYS OF SEEING: GREEN AT BELL HOUSE, PART OF DULWICH FESTIVAL ~ 14/15 & 21/22 MAY](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/ways-of-seeing-green-at-bell-house/) - Bell House hosts an exhibition of works of art exploring the meaning of ‘green’ to coincide with the 5oth anniversary of John Berger’s iconic television series Ways of Seeing. Berger encouraged us to look at the world differently and to consider how meaning and ideology are conveyed through visual media. Green plays a huge part - [META ALARM 2.0 SCREENING AT BERMONDSEY PROJECT SPACE ~ 11 JUNE](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/meta-alarm-2/) - AFTERNOON SCREENING AT BERMONDSEY PROJECT SPACE 183 – 185 BERMONDSEY ST, LONDON SE1 3UW. Saturday 11 June Doors: 4pm Screening: 4.30 - 5.30pm Talk / Q&A with the film makers: 5.30 - 6pm Tickets £5.98 available via Eventbrite. Join us for an afternoon of experimental films that respond to our current cultural and political climate. - [BEING DUCHAMP BECOMING ELSA AT SOUTHWARK FESTIVAL OF WORDS ~ 20 & 25 JUNE](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/southwark-festival-of-words/) - Monday 20 June (Dulwich) on the hour AND Saturday 25 June (Canada Water) all day Have you heard of 'the ‘Urinal’? Love it or hate it, 'Fountain' is considered one of the most important artworks of the 20th century. There is a replica of it authorised by the artist Marcel Duchamp in Tate Modern. Some people - [IIREAL LIFE SUMMER SHOW BOW ARTS STUDIOS DURHAM STREET ~ 01-03 JULY](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/summer-show-01-03-july-3rd-floor-bow-arts-durham-street-studios-47-49-durham-street-vauxhall-se11-5ja/) - 01, 02 & 03 July 2022 Opening Event 6–9pm Friday 01 July Performances 3pm Saturday & Sunday 03 July Admission Free Please join us for irreal life. This group show brings together and showcases a group of contemporary artists, all of whom engage in some form of irreality. On the third floor of this - [THE BARONESS AT MIMOSA HOUSE POETRY PERFORMANCE EVENING ~ 11 JULY 6.30-8PM](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/the-baroness-july-poetry-performance-evening-11-july-6-30pm-8pm/) - SAVE THE DATE Join us for a performance evening of our new exhibition The Baroness with Nora Gomringer, Liv Schulman and myself. Exploring the complex dynamic between Elsa and her sometime lover, Marcel Duchamp, and Elsa’s influence, not just on the man but on his alter ego Rose Selavy, I bring Elsa to life, performing - [THE SKY IS MOVING SIDEWAYS SCULPTURE TRAIL AT STEPHENS HOUSE & GARDENS](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/the-sky-is-moving-sideways-sculpture-trail-at-stephens-house-gardens/) - Devised by Rebekah Dean. The trail builds on the 2020 Sculpture Trail, Briefly IN-TRANSIT, funded by Arts Council England, when artists were invited to present transient and ephemeral artworks, that ingeniously could stand up to the elements, and challenge the boundaries of impermanence. The aim of a sculpture trail is for viewers to walk a - [BOW ARTS OPEN STUDIOS DURHAM STREET ~ 01 OCTOBER 11am-4pm](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/01-october-12-5pm-bow-arts-open-studios-durham-street-vauxhall/) - I will be sharing work in progress, with prints and limited editions for sale. If you can't make it, and would like to arrange a studio visit another day, please feel free to email me at: info@lauramoretongriffiths.com - [HER ART-STORT SERIES 3: PANEL DISCUSSION – ESTABLISHING AN EXHIBITION PRACTICE POST-PANDEMIC](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/her-art-story-series-3-panel-discussion-establishing-an-exhibition-practice-post-pandemic/) - Gallerist Danielle Arnaud, painter and current Chair of the artist-led group Contemporary British Painting, and Co-Director of Well Project (Margate) Emily Whitebread, talk about their career experience to date and give some thoughts on how the art world landscape may have changed Post-Pandemic. Saturday 29 Oct 4-6pmArtists Studio Company, Thurlow Street, London, SE17 2DG - [HER ART-STORT SERIES 3: CONVERSATION BETWEEN JENNIFER HIGGIE AND JULIET JACQUES](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/her-art-story-series-3-conversation-between-jennifer-higgie-and-juliet-jacques/) - Sunday 13 Nov 2.30-4pm Mimosa House47 Theobalds RoadLondonWC1X 8SP Watch it on the Her Art-Story YouTube channel here. Watch Series 1 & 2 online Barby Asante and Dr Althea Greenan; Mel Brimfield and Sally O’Reilly; Annabel Dover and Nadia Hebson; Melanie Jackson and Erika Tan; Laura Lancaster and Laura Moreton-Griffiths; Cathy Lomax and Eleanor - [PUBLIC SHARING OF SOFT APOCALYPSE: REHEARSING HOW WE CHANGE THE WORLD](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/2428-2/) - Performing Soft Apocalypse: Rehearsing How We Change the World - an immersive, participatory and interactive artwork event, made in opposition to the permanent arms economy and permanent war. Elements begun in 2016 have journeyed a long way, through my MA at the RCA in lockdown. This public sharing marks the end of a yearlong residency - [HER ART-STORY SERIES 3: ARTIST BECKY BEASLEY AND PRODUCER LOUISE O’KELLY IN CONVERSATION](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/text/) - Celebrating the achievements of successful women working in the arts and bringing them to public attention. Supported by Arts Council England and the National Lottery through the National Lottery Project Grants Award. Saturday 28 January 2023, 2.30-4.30pm Rye Creative CentreNew RoadRyeTN31 7LS Watch it on the Her Art-Story YouTube channel here. Watch Series 1 - [HER ART-STORY SERIES 3: GALLERIST EMMA HILL AND ARTIST CHARLEY PETERS IN CONVERSATION](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/her-art-story-series-3-gallerist-emma-hill-and-artist-charley-peters-in-conversation/) - Celebrating the achievements of successful women working in the arts and bringing them to public attention. Supported by Arts Council England and the National Lottery through the National Lottery Project Grants Award. Saturday 11 February 2023, 2.30-4.30pm John Harvard Library 211 Borough High Street London Bridge SE1 1JA Watch it on the Her Art-Story YouTube - [HER ART-STORY SERIES 3: PREMIERE SCREENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ART WRITER AND BROADCASTER LOUISA BUCK AND ARTIST JADE MONSERRAT](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/premiere-screening-of-conversation-between-art-writer-and-broadcaster-louisa-buck-and-artist-jade-monserrat/) - Celebrating the achievements of successful women working in the arts and bringing them to public attention. Supported by Arts Council England and the National Lottery through the National Lottery Project Grants Award. Saturday 25 February 2023, 3.30-5.30pm Turf Projects Whitgift Centre 46-47 Trinity Court Croydon CR0 1UQ Watch it on the Her Art-Story YouTube channel - [WINDOWS AND THRESHOLDS BEYOND CLOSED DOORS ~ 13 /14 & 20/21 May](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/windows-and-thresholds-beyond-closed-doors/) - Much of Berthe Morisot’s work remains in private collections, beyond closed doors. She mostly worked inside unlike her ‘en plein air’ contemporaries, and the door to being seen as a professional artist remained closed to her. However, rather than perceiving windows as representing barriers, Morisot used them to experience and to frame a scene and to bring light and air - [LOVE & RAGE. PETITOU, PECKHAM ~ 29 SEPTEMBER–25 OCTOBER](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/love-rage/) - An exhibition of selected ongoing works that all use the energy of anger with compassion and humour to explore ideas about justice and better futures. Original drawings and affordable prints for sale £30 – £300. All welcome. No need to book Friday 29 Sept to Wednesday 25 October. Daily 9am – 4pm PETITOU 63 Choumert - [WARR AND PEACE. PETITOU, PECKHAM ~ 01–29 NOVEMBER](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/warr-and-peace/) - An exhibition of drawings in ink on paper, from the archive. From the pastoral to global austerity and worlds at war. Wednesday 01 November. Daily 9am – 4pm All welcome. No need to book PETITOU 63 Choumert Road Peckham SE15 4AR A selection of original drawings and Giclée prints are available to order in - [THE SOCIAL CONTRACT SCREENING AT BELL HOUSE ~ 11/12 & 18/19 MAY 2024](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/4438-2/) - Screening a new short animated sci-fi ~ The Social Contract. A photo-roman, narrating the story of a bag-grown Keeper, who pushed to breaking breaks her Terms & Conditions, hurting the thing she loves most. Made using photography and AI technology. Written in 2021. Story and animation – Laura Moreton-Griffiths Muse – Luella Disley. Original sound - [SOUTHWARK FESTIVAL OF WORDS FILM SCREENING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT ~ 22 JUNE 3.30PM](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/the-social-contrcat-screening-at-southwark-festival-of-words/) - Pushed to breaking, a bag-grown Keeper breaks her Terms & Conditions, hurting the thing she loves most. A photo-roman made in collaboration with muse Luella Disley and an AI. Original music by Lauren Dejey. Please join me for the screening of a short animated sci-fi at Camberwell Library. Its free. No need to book. Screening - [FOUNDATION STATION ~ PORTFOLIO PREP & CREATIVE MENTORING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/foundation-station-portfolio-prep/) - WANT TO STUDY UK ART FOUNDATION IN SEPTEMBER 2025? Applying to UK Foundation is a complicated process. I provide tailored in-person creative and administrative advice. For people not in formal education, over the age of 18. 1:1 or in a small group. £35 an hour. A reduced rate is available for people on low - [THE SKY IS MOVING SIDEWAYS 2024 SCULPTURE TRAIL](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/marys-monster-friends-return/) - CURATED BY ARTIST REBEKAH DEAN, in partnership with Stephens House & Gardens. Funded by Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant. Supported by Sacred Gin and Tree Matters. 01 – 09 September. During garden opening hours. Trail closes 1pm Monday September 9th. Stephens House & Garden 17 East End Road Finchley N3 3QE. One - [SPECULATIVE FICTION PUBLISHED IN PLATFORM: JOURNAL OF THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS. VOL. 17, NO. 1 WINTER 2023 THE FUTURE](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/just-published-in-platform-journal-of-theatre-and-performing-arts-vol-17-no-1-winter-2023-the-future-p117-122/) - Platform is a refereed journal that has been devoted to publishing the work of postgraduates, postdoctoral researchers, and entry-level academics in the fields of theatre and the performing arts for more than a decade. Check out Earth: The Social Contract ~ one of my short stories about a bag grown Keeper that breaks her Terms - [IF YOU LIKE PIÑA COLADAS AT THE COLONY ROOM WITH SASHA BOWLES ~ 12 NOVEMBER 2024](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/watching-you-watching-me-at-the-colony-room-with-sasha-bowles/) - Dating is not what it used to be. But Sasha and Laura have high hopes. They wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad. Neither’s a poet, but they had to do what they had, An art show in London, let’s cut through this red tape. At a bar called the Colony, they - [BOW ARTS OPEN STUDIOS ~ 07 DECEMBER 2024](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/artist-open-studio-07-dec-12-5pm/) - Come visit my open studios. I’d love you to see what I’m working on. I’ll have a selection of projects on show, and drawings, prints and publications for sale. There are about 40 artists in the building who will be opening their studios too. You'll find me in my new space on the ground floor. - [BLINK PRESENTS ROOM SHARE 7. SAFEHOUSE 1 ~ 26 & 27 APRIL 2025](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/blink-presents-room-share-7/) - In the room curated by Lucy Soni. You're invited! - [OUTLANDISH. ASYLUM CHAPEL ~ 29 APRIL to 02 MAY 2025](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/outlandish-29-april-to-02-may-12-5pm-asylum-chapel/) - A group exhibition exploring notions of landscape. Curated by Rebekah Dean. Tuesday 29 April – Friday 02 May 12-5pm. Asylum Chapel Asylum Road London SE15 2SQ. Artist Talk with art writer & novelist, Cherry Smyth, leading a public participation of the space, with an amble through the exhibition and a happening event., Wednesday 30 April - [ODYSSEY OF ODDITIES # 5. RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, CURATED BY TAKDAJA ~ 07 MAY 2025](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/odyssey-of-oddities-5/) - An elaborate charade of the convoluted pantomime played within a courtship. A performance jesting with modern app-based dating, and the facades we create in the pursuit of love. If You Like Piña Coladas ~ by Sasha Bowles and Laura Moreton-Griffiths, as part of Odyssey of Oddities #5. Curated by Takdaja. £10 tickets available from takdaja.com - [THE INCIDENTALS. DULWICH OPEN HOUSE AT BELL HOUSE ~ 10/11 & 17/18 MAY 2025](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/the-incidentals-dulwich-open-house-at-bell-house-may-10-11-17-18-11am-6pm/) - More here. - [PIÑA & COLADADA AT RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, CURATED BY TAKDAJA ~ 07 MAY 2025](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/pina-coladada-riverside-studios-07-may-curated-by-takdaja/) - An elaborate charade drawn from the convoluted pantomime of courtship – a performance that satirises modern app-based dating and the façades we construct in our pursuit of love. - [IF YOU LIKE PIÑA COLADAS, WANDSWORTH ARTS FESTIVAL ~ 21 JUNE 2025](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/if-you-like-pina-coladas-wandsworth-fringe-festival/) - Dating is not what it used to be, But We have high hopes. They wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad. Neither’s a poet, but they had to do what they had, An art show in London, let’s cut through this red tape. At a bar under Putney Bridge, they plan their escape…. - [DRAWING WALKING LONDON ~ SUNDAY 20 JULY 2025](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/drawing-walking-london-sunday-20-july-2025/) - Through alleys and church yards, from the Barbican Centre and the Bassishaw Highwalk, to St Dunstan in the East, the Roman Wall at Tower Hill, and the crypt of All Hallows by the Tower. With artist Laura Moreton-Griffiths. Meeting at the Silk Street entrance to the Barbican Centre. £20 per person + Booking Fee. ❦ Whether - [RESISTANCE ~ LIMITED EDITION SILKSCREEN. SALES DONATED TO UNWRA.](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/resistance-silkscreen-print-supporting-palestine/) - مقاومة RESISTANCE Available in 2 colours. Black and White, and Watermelon Pink and Green. Printed on BFK Rives paper with 4 torn edges 38 x 23 cm Black and White Edition of 6 Watermelon Pink and Green Edition of 20 £60 inc. P&P With every order up to £10 per print will be deducted - [JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY PAINTING 11.1](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/journal-of-contemporary-paintinf-11-1/) - Special Issue: ‘Carol Rhodes: Seen and Unseen’ This Special Issue compiles contributions from Carol Rhodes: Seen and Unseen, a day-long symposium that took place at the Glasgow School of Art in April 2024. The purpose of this event was to provoke a range of new writing around Rhodes’s paintings, exploring how existing scholarship on her practice - [BOOK DRAWING WALKING LONDON. SPRING / SUMMER TOURS ❦](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/drawing-walking-london/) - Sketching the hidden history and details of the city of London. Whatever the weather. It’s simply about looking and drawing, a process of discovery in an inclusive environment where everyone feels supported. Whether or not you have drawn before or are an experienced hand. The aim of these walks is to observe, take note, ## Pages - [HOMEPAGE](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/) - Artist & Writer Working across painting, sculpture, performance and speculative fiction. - [ARTIST STATEMENT](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/artist-statement/) - Even as a child, I sensed something wasn’t right. My art practice is an ongoing interrogation into what and why – an attempt to make sense of what still feels senseless. I dig into the margins of history, culture, geopolitics, and personal memory, hunting for meaning. That childhood instinct, I now recognise, was early warning - [BIO](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/bio/) - Laura Moreton-Griffiths (British, b. 1967) is an artist and writer, whose storytelling reimagines past, present and future, thinking about different ways of experiencing the world. Her work has been exhibited in London and nationally and is held in private collections in the UK and internationally. Recent solo performance includes Gas Hood in High Heels with - [CV](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/cv/) - EDUCATION 2019 – 2021 MA Contemporary Art, Practice Critical Practice, Royal College of Art. 2005 – 2008 BA Painting (Hons), Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts. 1986 Foundation, St Martins School of Art. TRAINING 2025 Performance Skills. Creative Re Work Enterprise Skills. Funded by the Mayor of London. 2019 The Royal Drawing School. - [ABOUT THE WORKS](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/) - Search for: Click an image to explore these bodies of work in more detail. OBVIOUS EYES SORRY ELSA WICKED STRIPES BINARY PLURALITIES PIÑA & COLADADA COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE CONSCIENTIOUS-OBJECTING DEALING ARMS THAT CAN’T HURT ANYONE WRITING & TALKS FICTION & ACADEMIC BEAUTIFUL BREATH THE ADVENTURES OF GAS HOOD A WINNING SMILE PERFORMING IDEOLOGY THE SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL - [OBVIOUS EYES](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/obvious-eyes/) - What would it mean if arguably the most important artwork of 20th century, that changed the way we view art and think about the world, was made by a woman? - [FUTURES WITH FUTURES](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/futures-with-futures/) - WORLD BUILDING AS CAPITALIST CRITIQUE Interactive poster installed at DOOResidency, Zaandam, The Netherlands, 2021. Photo © Amelia Mckee. Interactive poster installed at DOOResidency, Zaandam, The Netherlands, 2021. Photo © Amelia Mckee. Interactive poster installed at DOOResidency, Zaandam, The Netherlands, 2021. Photo © Melle Nieling. Futures With Futures Interactive postcard, 2021. 10.5 x 14.8 cm. Scanning - [MY DARLING CHILDREN](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/my-darling-children/) - Lessons in Radical Empathy Portrait as my Father, 2016. Photography and digital post-production Christopher Clack. No One Had Seen the Going 2016 & 2024. Redacted text from the book My Darling Children, written by William Walter Griffiths.84.1 x 59.4 cm No Back Door 2016 & 2024. Redacted another way, the same text from the book - [STAFFORDSHIRE STREET](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/staffordshire-street/) - WILD FRONTIER From top to bottom, left to right: Street Life, Broken Britain, Freedom Fighters, Let Them Eat Meat, Pastoral Parody, Staffordshire Street, Street Fight, The Battle of Reeves Corner, The War Hero, What Does the Pope do in the Woods, 2010 – 2011. Ink on paper 57 x 76 cm. South of the River, - [DATA | GIFT](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/data-gift/) - MESSAGE FROM A FUTURE (Installation view) DATA | GIFT. RCA WIP Show, 2020. Large format print on canvas, Arduino circuits and proximity sensors. Dimensions variable. Max 8ft height. 4ft wide. Documentation of a performance by Lulu Wang with DATA | GIFT. RCA WIP SHOW, 2020. (Screen grab) Reading DATA | GIFT. Twitch performance hosted online - [GAINSBOROUGH PROPERTY CRIME](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/gainsborough-property-crime/) - WHAT THE PAINTER SAW Gainsborough Property Crime, 2009. Oil on canvas 69.8 × 119.4cm. Learning from the traditions of painting and the politics hidden in old master paintings, this painting is a copy of Mr and Mrs Andrews made thinking about what the painter really saw. The original was painted by Thomas Gainsborough, around 1850. - [PASTORAL PARODY](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/pastoral-parody/) - AN IDYLL MISOLD From top to bottom, left to right: Cottage Green, Donkey Alley, Flockton Street, Gardner Street, Grove Park, Shepherd’s Way, 2009 – 2010. Oil on canvas 40 x 30 cm. ENQUIRE ABOUT AVAILABLE WORKS - [MARY'S MONSTER](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/marys-monster/) - BRINGING UP GIRLS Mar’y Monster and Friends installed for The Sky is Moving Sideways at Stephens House & Garden 2024, curated by Rebekah Dean. Supported with public funds by Arts Council England. A group of drawings in Indian ink on gesso on ply, with varnish. Dimensions variable. Documentation of the performance of ‘The History is…’ - [THE SOCIAL CONTRACT](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/the-social-contract/) - KEEPING MUM The Social Contract 2024. Photo Roman. Single Channel Video 18′ 38″. (Film still) The Social Contract 2024.Single Channel Video 18′ 38″. (Film still) The Social Contract 2024.Single Channel Video 18′ 38″. Muse – Luella Disley. Guest – Carol Moreton. Original music – Lauren Dejey. Sound recording – Isa Suarez. Synthetically grown and raised - [TRUTH LIES WITHIN](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/truth-lies-within/) - meet heartbreaker, robot child, armed and dangerous (Installation view) Truth Lies Within, Phytology, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve 2017. Oil on laser-cut powder-coated steel. Dimensions variable. (Installation view) Truth Lies Within, London Creative Network Showcase SPACE Studios, 2017. Oil on laser-cut powder-coated steel. Dimensions variable. ZINE How did we get here? To this future imagined? Here’s - [NOT COMING HOME](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/not-coming-home/) - SPLENDID ISOLATION Not Coming Home, 2016. Performance to camera wearing Fallout Suit. Digital C-type print 101.6 x 76.2cm. Fallout Suit, 2016. Hand sewn canvas costume. Photography Joanna Kiely. Zippadeeshit, 2016. Originating drawing in ink and spray paint on St Cuthberts Mill Saunders Waterford Watercolour Paper 300gsm 76 x 56cm. ENQUIRE ABOUT AVAILABLE WORKS - [FREEDOM FIGHTER](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/freedom-fighter/) - The Power of Love Ἀντιγόνη #1 2024, Digital C-Type print 12″x 16″. Ἀντιγόνη #2 2024, Digital C-Type print 12″x 16″. Ἀντιγόνη #3 2024, Digital C-Type print 12″x 16″. Ἀντιγόνη #4 2024, Digital C-Type print 12″x 16″. Ἀντιγόνη #5 2024, Digital C-Type print 12″x 16″. Perpetual war. Escalating urgency. Somehow, we need to activate our individual - [THE SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/the-sovereign-individual/) - HISTORY PAINTING CONTEMPORISED History Painting an End to War 2023. Documentary photograph of Prototype 2, a performance at Petitou, Peckham. History Painting an End to War 2023. Documentary photograph of the final scene of Prototype 2, performed at Petitou, Peckham. Soft Apocalypse 2022. Documentary photographs of Prototype 1, an interactive and participatory performance at Space - [A WINNING SMILE SMILE](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/a-winning-smile/) - PERFORMING IDEOLOGY Machine for Winning, 2016. Performance to camera in wearable paintings, digitally post-produced. Digital C-type print 101.6 x 76.2cm. A Winning Smile, 2016. Performance to camera in wearable paintings. Machine for Winning: Dictator 2016. Installed at Market Peckham, part of group exhibition Olympic Dreams. Is authoritarianism closing in? Its impossible not to look back - [BEAUTIFUL BREATH](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/beautiful-breath/) - Equating modern life immersed in capital flows and the mass media, with the information analogue to gas warfare. - [CONSCIENTIOUS-OBJECTING](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/conscientious-objecting/) - Dealing arms that can’t hurt anyone M4 Tank 2017. Sewn canvas object 35 x 75 x 32 cm Photographed by Debbie Sears 2023. Available as an Archival Giclée Print on Hahnemühle A3. Chinese Landmine 2022. Sewn canvas object 35 x 35 x 15 cm Photographed by Debbie Sears 2023. Available as an Archival Giclée Print - [WICKED STRIPES](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/about-the-works/wicked-stripes/) - Binary pluralities Wicked Stripes # 4, 2021 Archival pigment print Wicked Stripes # 2, 2021 Archival pigment print Wicked Stripes # 6, 2021 Archival pigment print Wicked Stripes # 1, 2021 Archival pigment print Wicked Stripes # 5, 2021 Archival pigment print Wicked Stripes # 6, 2021 Archival pigment print In the stripe there is - [WRITING & TALKS](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/writing-talks/) - SPECULATIVE FICTIONS ELEMENTAL A collection of short stories designed around the alchemical elements: EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER and BRIMSTONE, building blocks that built the world the way it is – that could just as easily build it differently. Alchemy the project of the past, is of the future too. Welcome to the Great Transition. Set - [CONTACT](https://lauramoretongriffiths.com/contact/) - HAVE A QUESTION? 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