Laura Vickerson

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Laura Vickerson
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
EducationM.F.A., Department of Visual Art, University of Victoria B.F.A.,Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta
Known forinstallation artist, fabric artist
Awards2003 Calgary ARTWALK Honouree
Websitehttp://www.lauravickerson.com

Laura Vickerson (born 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian artist who works with mixed media in site-specific situations. She often includes discarded household items in her projects as a comment on changing trends, consumerism and human relationships with everyday objects.[1] Vickerson was a professor in Craft and Emerging Media at the Alberta College of Art and Design, where she taught starting in 1989.[2] Vikerson retired in 2020 and is now a Professor Emeritus.[3]

Exhibitions[edit]

Vickerson has exhibited at the Biennale du Lin in Quebec, the 5th Istanbul Biennial, Textile Museum of Canada, Surrey Art Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Oakville Galleries.

Works[edit]

In 2018 she was part of the exhibition entitled Fabrications at the Kelowna Art Gallery, along with three fellow women installation artists from different regions of Canada -- Libby Hague, Gisele Amantea, and Yael Brotman. Her piece, entitled Air, invites guests to lie barefoot below a canopy of cream-coloured translucent pieces of used clothing that she sewed together and suspended nearly 10 feet above the floor.[4]

Fairy Tales and Factories was a site specific work created by Laura Vickerson for Locus+ in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and exhibited March 26-April 9, 1999. It was her first show in the UK. The installation consisted of a cape, 4 metres wide and 21 metres long, created from hundreds of thousands of rose petals pinned to organza. The garment was made on-site at Farfield Mill, which closed after 169 years of linen production, in collaboration with a local women's group, the Sedbergh Stitchers. Conversations with them and people connected to the building were recorded and played during the show.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Laura Vickerson". Medalta. 14 July 2017. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Laura Vickerson - Permanent Faculty Craft and Emerging Media". ACAD. Archived from the original on 25 March 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Professors/Lecturers Emeritus". ACAD. Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Art installations need audience". The Daily Courier. Kelowna, BC: Kelowna Daily Courier. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  5. ^ Bewley, Jon (2 March 1999). "Factories and Fairy Tales". Locus+.
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