An urban project by Laura Oldfield Ford

A solo exhibition, taking place on poster sites around central Bristol; a reflection on urban landscape.

Laura Oldfield Ford's drawings appropriate a lexicon of different motifs that reflect on the urban landscape. Often beginning with the idea of the walk, her practice engages with cities in a psycho-geographic investigation, creating narratives that float between past, present and future. The narratives she creates incorporate nostalgically-orientated imagery of historical protest, rioting and decay, as well as competing visions of the built environment, old and new, appropriated from advertisements for architectural developments.

Oldfield Ford's own background has been as a participant in different anarchist and punk movements through the 80s and 90s, before eventually completing an MA is Fine Art at the Royal College of Art. Informed by her investment in the politics of the street, she produces illustration works for a variety of ephemeral media formats including billboards, posters and fanzines, responding to slick corporate designs by using a more homespun drawing aesthetic.
Arnolfini has invited Oldfield Ford to develop a new project specifically for large-scale Adshel poster sites around the Broadmead area in the city centre of Bristol, for the month of February in 2011. The artist has undertaken a number of research trips to Bristol throughout 2010 in order to develop this commission as a site-based project, looking at a number of places of architectural and social interest from past and present, and also taking in Bristol's history of cultural regeneration, gentrification, civil unrest and alternative lifestyle cultures. A total of 10 sites are being used.

A fanzine will also be produced to provide information about the exhibition and to guide people around the different sites, and a number of informal walking tours have been organised for seeing the posters and exploring different areas of the city centre. Laura Oldfield Ford will also give a University of the West of England lecture at Arnolfini in March 2011, which will focus on her work to date as well as her project for Bristol. Laura Oldfield Ford lives and works in London.
Laura Oldfield Ford
1- 28 February 2011
Arnolfini, Bristol

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