Laura Noble

L A Noble is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores many facets of memory, cause and effect, specifically anamnesis and trauma. Hailing from Manchester in the North of England and of mixed heritage (British, Turkish, Somalian). She is now based in London where she lives and works.

Her work has been acquired by private and public collections in the UK, USA and Australia. Trained as a painter, printmaker and sculptor Laura studied both in the UK and Australia and works in multiple medias. Her conceptual practice centres around anamnesis, a platonic form of remembering. Exploring memory, trauma, recovery and transformation, her socially engaged practice includes collaborative projects and immersive experiences.

From painting in oils to works on paper including collage, printmaking and drawing Noble incorporates photography, film and sculpture into her work. Performative acts are photographed and filmed often using artwork she has created. Each work informs the next. Unspoken trauma is given a voice through visual means in the safety of her practice and method. Abstracting images through the crushing of original artworks on paper, allows for difficult subjects and triggering events become a positive act of transfiguration.

Each artwork created informs and therefore is present in the next. This intuitive process enables each piece to conceptually and literally connect to the previous one. Her mark making is explored in detail, collaging expressive elements adds a fluidity, to an often-static genre.  

Transforming painted works on canvas and paper into collages, and vice versa represent the transfiguration from one medium to another, exploring the traces left from one work into the next. By creating a memory or ‘ghost’ of each work to facilitate the creation of a new one she pivots between mediums and genres embracing the aesthetic cohesion.  

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