Daily Baroque 2

Daily Baroque 2 explores Laura’s continued investigation of dough as a sculptural medium.  An installation of dough, ceramic and polypropylene sheets.

Laura’s work is foremost a material investigation. She is led by her materials and collaborates with them, rather than imposing herself on them. She is attracted to materials and processes that challenge her physically, those that are difficult to control and resist being fixed. It is important for her not to plan what she does but start a journey with a material and see where it takes and pushes her, being exposed to the breaks, mistakes and failures of materials to open new directions and possibilities.

Interested in collisions between the everyday and the extraordinary, having spent a period of time in Rome, Italy Laura focuses on daily activities around food, such as the making of bread and pasta, alongside the flamboyant and dramatic style of the Baroque, particularly in response to the unique sculptures of Gain Lorenzo Bernini, who carved stone to appear as soft as dough, for wealthy and powerful patrons.

This installation brings together three object collections. Porcelain, mixed clay ceramics and dried dough works. The white porcelain pieces were originally commissioned but Meadow Arts as part of an exhibition at Museum of Royal Worcester in 2018. Mostly functional in type, these works respond to both the museum’s collection and contemporary vessels. These replicas have been manipulation and intentionally damaged – ripped, torn and squashed. A selection of this collection is arranged amongst recent ceramic works made from coloured clays, dried reinforced dough works marbled with food colourings, interrupted by a white silicone rubber sculpture.

Daily Baroque 2 is an iteration of Daily Baroque which was shown at the Phoenix Arts Space in 2025. This new installation responds to a new setting and artists works in Making Ground, such as the works supports which are colorful plastic sheets that are unfixed and playfully arranged in a cluster on the gallery floor.

Recognisable objects and abstract forms collide in a material unraveling where the everyday is wrapped up in the dramatic flowing style of the Baroque. Teapots melt and dough tongues lap and lick.

Laura looks to cooking, such as making bread to re-think her processes for making sculpture. Focused on the experience of her body in relation to these materials, these works reflect a visceral experience of inside and outside the body (human and animal). This is taken quite literally when she makes bread sculpture for eating (as at the pv).