Laura Carey’s work has been heavily based around her personal relationship to suburban life, having been intrigued by the mass of suburban landscape that surrounded her in Dublin. Her work looked at our evaluation of the landscape in which we live, the known sphere around us in which we discover our place in the world and our own relationship to it. Looking at the houses around her has allowed her to see how we are all trying to stand out among the banal. From this she has currently been working on ideas that focus on the interrelationship between fiction and reality. She has been looking at the idea of taking these banal images of the world around me and looking to deconstruct them and create a new image somewhere between the reality in front of me and a created distorted beautiful alternative. Since graduating from NCAD’s printmaking department in 2007 she has been exhibiting locally and internationally and completed a residency in Reykjavik Iceland in January 08.Recently she has finished postgraduate study in COFA at UNSW in Sydney 2009 and continues to work in Sydney.
Education
2009 Graduate Certificate in Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Australia
2007 Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Degree in Fine Art Printmaking, The National College of Art and Design, Ireland
Exhibitions and Published Work
2012
Sketchbook Project, Group Show, World Tour, USA, UK , Australia, April- November
Sketcbook Project Australia, Group Show, NGV Studio, Federation Square, Melbourne, November
Teaching Art, Group Show, Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove, Sydney, April
Artist in Residence , The White House, Kensington, Sydney , February
Hunt or Be Hunted , Group Show, Lightbulb Lounge Room, North Bondi, Sydney, January
2011
“On the Wall 2″, Group Show, Leeloo, Finders Keepers, Carraigeworks, Sydney, December
Lightbulb, Lightbulb Lounge Room, North Bondi, Sydney, November
UMPH!, Group Show, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Marrickville, Sydney, September
This Little Teapot, Group Show, Paper Planes, Rozelle, Sydney, April
Suburban Dreams, Solo Show, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Marrickville, Sydney, April
2010“On the Wall”, Leeloo, Finders Keepers, Carraigeworks, Sydney, December
“Quality Street”, Solo Show, The Arts Bar, Paddington, Sydney, November
Blanket Magazine, Cosmos Issue, June, Landscape Issue, October
Tharunka Magazine,Women’s Issue, October
Cupcake Magazine, For the Birds, Issue 4, September
MCM House Art Show, Group Show, MCM House, Sydney
2009
Tharunka Magazine, Issue 4, May
2008
Winter Members Exhibition, Limerick Printmakers Gallery, Limerick, November
Day Like These, Group Show, Bernard Shaw & Versus, Dublin, Ireland, September
Pallasades, Collective Group show, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, Ireland, August
Reality Wonderland, Group show, The Crow Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, August
What are we doing here?, Group show, Design Fiesta, Tokyo, Japan, June
All Hung Up, RiverFest, Group show at Limerick Printmakers Gallery, Limerick, Ireland, May
Group Residency show with the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik, Iceland, January
2007
The Canvases Project, Cornucopia, Dublin, Ireland ,October
Postcards from the Edge, Arts Office, Killkenny, Ireland, September
Degree Show, National College of Art, Group Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland ,June
2006
Translations in Print, Group Exhibition, The Cross Gallery, Dublin, Ireland May
Residencies & Associations
Member, Megalo Print Studio, Canberra, 2011
Featured artist, Sweets Workshop, Summer Hill, Sydney, 2010
Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik, Iceland, January, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, 2008
Associate Member of the Limerick Printmakers, Ireland, 2007, 2008
