About

Laura Hudson is a trans-disciplinary artist, writer, and curator with an interest in the politics of (mis)information, collaborative practices, and how we encounter otherness.

Artist Statement

I draw in search of what I don’t yet know, to make visible the stuff I can barely perceive. I draw to find the edges of things, to examine their underside, to locate the glitches in the shark’s tank that cause disruption, anxieties that sharpen attention, or a revelation that affects a response. I draw over and over because repetition is a release for the moments that puncture my everyday. 

My process of drawing is a form of dérive, doodles that tap into a distracted mind full of stuff.  Situationists describe the dérive as aimless drifting through places guided by whim but with an acute awareness of how the surrounding atmosphere or deliberate structures affect the decisions of the drifter.  My lines, blobs, and scratches trace a metamemorial drift. Attentive to the shrapnel embedded in the body by external forces, drawn lines search out the unnamable, serve as containers for a moving world, and in lucid moments recover things that were lost, forgotten, or perhaps never known. Overloaded with information and saturated by images messages get scrambled but between the lines, there is something of the unknown trying to take root elsewhere. 

These drift drawings sometimes trigger paintings. Duplicitous forms evolve from the drawings and play with the resemblance of things. Like a porous game of dominoes, one thing leads to another; open to both external influences and internal memories, narratives emerge that cannot help but reflect both present conditions and previous knowledge. In the end what manifests in my pictures is ambiguous, often darkly humorous, and scripted with political intent. Snow poles in a blizzard marking what seems most perilous to me.

Bio

Laura Hudson is an artist and writer with a background in film and new media curation. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art’s Environmental Art department, Hudson went on to study artist moving image at Central St. Martins and gained an MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School, 2019.

Her early work took the form of public interventions, site-specific works and expanded cinema with a distinctly queer-feminist agenda, which led her to curation and a career specialising in film and new technologies. She worked for a range of organisations including; Women in Profile, London Filmmakers Co-op (Lux), Cinenova Feminist Film Distribution, Arts Council England (Broadcast & New Media) and FluxIT Digital Agency. In 2004 food security activism took her away from the city to work on the preservation of edible seeds on a Cevenol farm in France. Returning to the UK in 2012 to re-engage in her art practice and complete an MA in Fine Art. before settling in Jersey, Chanel Islands, in 2021 where she worked as curator and producer for ArtHouse Jersey and is currently the Business Development Manager for CCA Galleries International, based in Jersey and the UK.