Laura Oldfield Ford works in ballpoint pen ,acrylic paint and spray paint. Exploring the urban landscape.
"Focuses on areas haunted by an urban dispossessed , which regeneration seeks to concrete over; city wastelands where fortress-like old tower- blocks rise, with their Escher-like walkways and bleak 'recreational' open spaces."
I find this explanation of Ford's work to be useful as it is what her work is and it is clear. She publishes a blog called "Savage Messiah."
She was influenced by Raymond Pettibon, Linder Sterling and Jon Savage.
She uses locations such as East End of London, the new towns of Harlow , Hatifield and Stevenage.
"She describes her practise as centring around walks through London and the creation of "emotional maps". Oldfield Ford said "I regard my work as diaristic; the city can be read as a palimpsest , of layers of erasure and overwriting. The need to document the transient and ephemeral nature of the city is becoming increasingly urgent as the process of enclosure and privatisation continues apace."
"Psychogeographer whose photorealist urban snapshots in pen, acrylic and spray paint satirise the empty promises of capitalism." Alumni of Royal College of Art, Laura is mostly famous for her zine called "Savage Messiah" Her practice incorporates drawing , painting, photography, staging events, writing and self- publishing."
