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 largely revolved around all types of 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 and hand painted lettering practice.

Her current work revives the traditional art of sign-painting and often humorously references both nostalgia and better times to come. Nelson also 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. This year she is very much looking forward to developing her skills in the endangered craft of glass gilding and making some beautiful art.