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Laura Findlay

B.1984

Working primarily through gestural representational painting, Laura Findlay is interested in the tension and humour that results from encounters between the natural and the built world. Her recent projects explore gardens as a transitory site to examine the interplay in notions of nature, the environment, and technology. Findlay uses a subtractive painting process to generate an image through removing material. Findlay explores how these subjects and actions can be intertwined in paintings that join the process and the idea on the surface of the work.

Laura Findlay (b. Montreal, Canada) received her MFA from the University of Guelph and a BFA from Concordia University. Findlay’s artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, and installation, with recent exhibitions at Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax; Open Studio, Toronto; Norberg Hall, Calgary; Galerie Division, Montreal; Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto, and Forest City Gallery, London. She has been artist in residence at the Annandale Artist Residency in Prince Edward Island, the Brucebo Foundation in Gotland, Sweden, the Banff Centre, and the Vermont Studio Center. Findlay lives and works in Toronto, Canada

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