Laura Conlon
Laura Conlon is an artist from Belfast working in the medium of film, photography and installation. Conlon’s practice is an exploration of narrative abstraction and cinematic temporality in relation to the uncanny and preternatural. Her work is conceptually underpinned by ideas surrounding death, ritual, landscape and folklore. Through a poetic, lyrical visual style she creates a space where the real and the spectral co-exist with normalcy. The formal compositions and lighting sensibilities are informed by classical painting that when paired with the cinematic tableau, challenge conventional cinematic time and create a hybrid temporality where the past and present co-exist. The work blurs the boundaries between the real and the unreal, stasis and motion, presence and absence; consciously constructing a space to visualise this tension.
Biography
Conlon (b.1982, Belfast) completed her B.A. Honours Degree in Fine Art at University of Ulster in 2004 and is currently studying for her Masters in Film at Queens University Belfast. Her work has been exhibited by Catalyst Arts in Belfast and Context Gallery, Derry. Conlon worked in Belfast Exposed Photographic Gallery facilitating photography workshops across Northern Ireland and is currently a teacher of art, photography and film. She was recently commissioned by the BBC to make a short film that has been selected for Still Voices Film Festival 2020 and Wexford Documentary Film Festival 2020.
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