Laura Nelson

Laura Nelson studied Art & Visual Culture(Ba) and Further & Higher education(P.G.C.E) at U.W.E, Bristol and H.D.K, Berlin between 1999-2005. In 2010 she returned to her native Ireland to begin a new life in sunny Belfast. In 2017 she helped establish Vault Artist Studios and has been a member ever since.

Pre-pandemic, her work was largely community arts and facilitation. Covid put an end to that and allowed Nelson the time and space to fully immerse in her passion for typography, hand painted lettering practice and creative productions.

Her current work revives the traditional art of sign-painting and often humorously references both nostalgia and better times to come. Nelson still works in sculpture, installation, events production though her work is increasingly public and site-specific, with recent interventions on the walls of Belfast, Kells, Laois and Bristol. She is currently developing her skills in the endangered craft of glass gilding and making some larger scale, experimental pieces for exhibition.