CV

Laurence Price 
b. 1988, Birmingham, UK

Exhibitions

2019: Reclaim Pride Group Exhibition, Världskulturmuseet, Gothenburg, SV.

2019: ‘Bodies in Defiance/Bodies in Alliance’ Group Exhibition, Rotor 2, Valand Academy, SV.

2019: ‘Things We will Forget’, MFA Exhibition, Göteborgs Konsthall, SV.

2018: School of the Damned (Multiple Exhibitions: The Royal Standard, Liverpool, Sluice Art, Guest Projects) UK.

2017: Fluid Festival, a two-day festival of newly composed sound and music by Queer composers. 

2017: ‘Rights Wot Rights?’ Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK. 

2017: ‘Videotheque’, Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK. 

2017: Repeator: ‘Composite Place’, Mapping project, partner to Coventry Biennial, UK. 

2017: Repeator: Transmission, City Arcadia Gallery, Coventry, UK.

2016: Scan. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK. 

2016: Extraction. #ArtistsCompute2016 Festival, Coventry, UK. 

2016: Work In Progress: Grand Union, Digbeth, UK. 

2015: Repeator, Material World: Vivid Project, Birmingham 

2015: WE LIKE: Be Festival, The REP, Birmingham 

2015: Repeator: Vivid Projects, Birmingham 

2015: Grand Union Work in Progress 

2013: ARTicle Gallery, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design: ‘Zombie Poverty’ 

2014: Sentinel, ‘Jaywalking In Marina City’ (Curator)

2012: Matthews Yard, Croydon, London: ‘Exhibit 2’ 

2011: The Dharma Collective ( Research Project in collaboration with Matthew Welch) 

January: The Other Space, Camberwell ‘The Dharma Collective. THE ISLAND’, March: Made In Goldsmiths Gallery, Goldsmiths Uni, ‘The Dharma Collective, THE MACHINE’ 

2011: #dawnchorus: Diy8 LADA 

2010: Photokina: Imaging, Cologne, Germany. 

2010: Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art: ‘Interim Group Show’. 

2009: Wimbledon College of Art: ‘Blank’. 

2008: ‘The Vaults’ Gallery, The Foundry Shoreditch, Solo Show:‘Balance’, (Installation with Performance on ‘Late Breakfast’ show on Resonance FM.) 

Residencies 

2019: Ateljé Hållö, Dômen konstskola, SV

2017: Merz Barn, Windermere, The Lake District (School Of The Damned Residency), ‘Space, Image, Exile’, UK. 

2017: Guest Projects, London, (School Of The Damned Residency), ‘Common Room’, UK.

2017: Office for Art and Design, Extended Residency Repeator: Transmission, UK.

2016: Coventry Transport Museum (Research & Development), UK.

2016: Work In Progress: Grand Union, UK. 

2015: New Art Gallery Walsall, (With ESP, Eastside Projects, ‘Group work’), UK. 

Curating 

23-26 June 2020: Curatorial Workshop | Bucharest Biennale, “handfuls thrown into air and scattered over earth”.

2017: School of the Damned In Birmingham, Multiple Venues (Grand Union, Centrala, Recent Activity, Modern Clay, Ikon Gallery, Vivid Projects, BCU) I curated the school coming to the city with workshops led by Lara Ratnaraja, Cathy Wade, Lucy Lopez, Luis-Manuel Garcia, Cheryl Jones, and Modern Clay amongst many others. Food with performance artist and chef Albert Smith and parties with DJ’s were organised along with all of the accommodation for the participants. The school attempts to operate without money.

2017: Merz Barn, Windermere, School Of The Damned Residency, ‘Space, Image, Exile’ Co-curated a week of activities, performances, artist talks, food organisation and participatory pedagogy workshops ( in collaboration with Natasha Cox).

2016: International Curators Workshop hosted by Vessel, Bari, Italia, (curatorial research residency).

2014: Sentinel, Jaywalking In Marina City, I organised and crowd funded and curated a group exhibition, working with a Birmingham based property developer who donated the space to showcase emerging artists (over two exhibitions), enabling the formation of new work by 7 artists in a group show context loosely looking at the transformative nature of art and design within and upon public space.

2013: AGORA, 11 days of artistic and curatorial experimentation ‘market testing’ ideas in Tooting Market, over 40 participants including designers, artists, writers, filmmakers, curators and Musicians collaborating during each day of the Project. Each day a different group met in the centre of the market and a series of discussions took place led by a new curator each day before the days projects were carried out and documented. The accumulation of which saw the launch of the ‘AGORA PUBLICATION‘ @ UNORTHABOX on the 24th March.

Pedagogic Work 

2017-2018: MA School Of The Damned, Alternative Art School, UK.  

2017: REP Theatre, Facilitation of ‘we come and pave the streets with gold’ participatory workshop, Erdington Welcome Centre, UK.

2016: Warwickshire colleges: Visiting Tutor, Warwick New Rd, Leamington Spa, UK.

Press

2019: ‘Du sköna nya glömda värld’, Av Johannes Björk, KunstKritik.

2019: ‘Valands examensutställningar’, Av Olle Niklasson, OM Konst.

2017: ‘We Like: Keith Dodds, Laurence Price and Cathy Wade’, Anneka French, this is tomorrow.

Published Texts

Repeator, Composite Place (A Sculptural Score), Living Maps Review, No 6, Spring Issue, 2019, ISSN: 2398-0338.

Two Monuments a Manifesto and a Memorial, RE:SEARCH publication, The University of Gothenburg, 2019. (A collaborative publication by the 2019 cohort of Akademin Valand’s MFA Fri Konst department. As well as a contributor with Simon Fageus and Matilda Franzen, I was an editor and also worked as a copy editor.) ISBN: 978-91-985465-0-7.

Editing

Copy writer for  Publications by the University of Gothenburg

RE:SEARCH publication, The University of Gothenburg, 2019. (A collaborative publication by the 2019 cohort of Akademin Valand’s MFA Fri Konst department. ISBN: 978-91-985465-0-7.

2018 Stuck In the Middle With You

2012, Agora Publication, Editor and Publisher for Agora (Self Published)

Education 

2017-19: MFA, Fine Art, Valand Academy, University Of Gothenburg, Goteborg, SV.

2019: Introduction to Contemporary Art and Politics, University Of Gothenburg, Goteborg, SV.

2017-2018: MA School Of The Damned, Alternative Art School, UK.  

2014/5: BTEC LEVEL 3 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES: Pearson, QCF, UK.

2014: ERASMUS PLUS Leonardo Da Vinci work placement, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Via di Mezzo, 42, 50121 Firenze, It.

2007: Foundation Diploma; Art & Design, Bournville Institute Of Art and Design, UK.

2005: 10 GCSE’s A*-C grade, UK.

Technical Training

PASMA AUADI TRAINING: Mobile Access Towers (Scaff) Course, HSS Training Unit 1 Focus Park, Ashbourne Way, Solihull, B90 4QU 

LADDER AND STEPLADDER USER – LADDER ASSOCIATION, HSS Training Unit 1 Focus Park, Ashbourne Way, Solihull, B90 4QU 

Relevant Art Gallery/Technician Roles.

2019-Ongoing: Rödasten Konsthall, SV, (technician). 

2019: Coventry Biennial, UK, (technician).

2019: Göteborg Biennial, SV, (technician).

2017: ICA, Mall, London,UK, (technician).

2016: University Of Birmingham, UK, (technician). 

2016: University Of Warwick WAC, UK, (technician). 

2016: Ikon Gallery, Front of House, (Admin). 

2015: British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venezia, Italy. (Pavilion Steward). 

2015: Ikon Gallery Technician, Birmingham, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, UK (technician).

2015: MAC Gallery Technician. Birmingham, UK, (technician).

2014: AquisMedia Technician; (The Birmingham Royal Ballet Refurbishment, Botanical Gardens Birmingham. Netflix Installation, Southbank Centre, London, UK), (technician).

2014: Fierce festival, Birmingham, UK (technician). 

2014: Grand Union Gallery, Birmingham, UK (technician). 

2013- 2014: Eastside Projects: Production Assistant, Birmingham, UK, (Technical and Duty Manager for the Gallery). 

2013: Fierce festival, UK, (technician).

2011: Haunch of Venison Gallery, London, UK, (invigilator).  

2011-2012: Gallery Intern Auto Italia SE, Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London, (technician, invigilator, grip, artist).