Laura Footes

Overview
Courtesy of the artist and Shrine Gallery, NYC
Courtesy of the artist and Shrine Gallery, NYC
It’s not surprising Laura Footes’ concept of being omniscient gravitates her towards thoughts of doctors; she’s seen her share to maintain a chronic illness that began in childhood. This familiarity has bred a keen awareness of her own form, both inside and out, and also gifted her knowledge of how we all work. In Footes’ dreamlike paintings, she presents a cast of beautiful, ghost-like figures rendered flowing through time instead of bound to a single moment. Some of these vestiges are pulled from life– family and close friends– and others are dreamt in fantasy while convalescing at home.
 
Footes’ already hyperactive imagination awakens even further during these moments, creating a vivid, almost hallucinatory, mindset where even the abstracted shapes of people moving behind curtains in a flat across the street is enough of a creative spark to launch her into complex imagined narratives about the human lives around her. In this state, she is the all-seeing, all-knowing, ever-present viewer, and when she is able to be  back in the studio, these scenes quickly flood onto canvases and paper from memory.
 
With everything laid bare for her audience, the uncomfortable moments, the daily rituals, and even our internal bodily systems, Laura Footes is able to share a unique and empathetic understanding of the complex nature of life and existence for us all. And through art, she demonstrates that we can turn our obstacles into inspiration if we choose. 
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Courtesy of the artist and Shrine Gallery, NYC
Courtesy of the artist and Shrine Gallery, NYC

B. 1991 in Birmingham, UK. Lives and works in Margate, UK.

 

Education

2014 The Art Student’s League of New York, Academic exchange

The Royal Drawing School, Postgraduate diploma in advanced drawing, London, UK

2012 Université de Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne, BA History of Art with translation studies, Paris, FR

2009 Justus Liebig Universität, Academic exchange to study German Literature, Gießen, DE

 

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Somewhere Else, SHRINE, New York, US

2018 The Master, Margarita and the Artist, Pushkin House, London, UK

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 We Do Not Sleep, TKE, Margate, UK

2022 Royal Scottish Academy, Summer Exhibition, Edinburgh, UK

2019 Between Worlds, Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, UK

2019 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London, UK

2019 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2017 The Royal Drawing School selected alumni exhibition, Buckingham Palace, London, UK

2016 Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s, New York, US

2015 Society of Fine Artists, Menier Gallery, London, UK

2014 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2013 Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s, London, UK

2013 Artist of the Day, Flowers Gallery, London, UK

 

Commissions

2023 Commissioned by His Majesty King Charles III to create a series of Margate Sunrises in honour of the Coronation and to be auctioned at Christie’s in support of His Majesty’s charities.

 

Scholarships and Awards

2014 Scholarship to Art Students League, New York, US

2013 External Assessment Board Prize, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK

2013 Recipient of The Derek Hill Foundation bursary

2013 Recipient of The South Square Trust Scholarship

2009 DAAD scholarship to Germany awarded by the German Embassy London.