Laura Gannon

Laura Gannon was born 1972 in Galway, Ireland and lives and works in London. Gannon’s work oscillates between drawing, sculpture, painting and film. Recent works include abstract drawings made with metallic ink on linen. The linen has been subjected to multiple processes to reveal its corporeality: folding, bending, wrinkling suggesting their raw physicality and directness. Gannon’s films mark a parallel to her sculptural drawings with their articulation of temporality, light, space and the act of looking; intimate portraits of distinctive architectural buildings.

Solo exhibitions include Laura Gannon, Kate MacGarry, London (2022); Silver House, VISUAL Carlow, Ireland (2019); Espace Croisé, Centre d’Art Contemporain, France (2016); Silver House, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland (2015). Recent group exhibitions include Footfalls, part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, Britta Rettberg, Munich, Germany (2024); The Dimension of Feeling, Vortic, London (2024); TERRA, Beaune, Burgundy, France (2023); LUMA, AORA, London (2023); TWENTY, Kate MacGarry, London (2022); Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, RA, London (2022); Making and Momentum: In Conversation with Eileen Gray, curated by Richard Malone, at Mairie de Ville, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (2021), National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (2021); Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland (2022); Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2018); Show Window, Kate MacGarry, London, UK (2016); Folly: Art After Architecture, Glucksman, Cork, Ireland (2014); A House of Leaves, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK (2013).

A House in Cap-Martin was included in Customary Beauty, Mor-Charpentier, Paris, France (2011) and Silver House was screened as part of the Official Selection Milano Design Film Festival (2017). In 2021 Gannon took part in Launch Pad residency LaB, in Charente, France.