Laurence Harding is a photographic artist, living in Leigh on Sea, Essex. After graduating with a BA in Photography from the University of Westminster in 2013, she pursued further studies on the Southend-based Alternative Master’s degree, The Other MA.
Throughout her art practice, she not only explores and challenges the nature of the photographic print, but also investigates the material qualities of the medium.
She specialises in analogue, experimental and historic photography processes and is currently exploring more sustainable working practices.
She is particularly interested in the history of place and the environment being an active ‘participant’ in the making of the work.
Her studio is based at The Old Waterworks, an artist hub in Southend-on-Sea.
Alongside commissioned projects and exhibitions, she regularly leads workshops and courses in schools, colleges, art galleries and various organisations, in Essex and London. Her work has been exhibited in London, Brighton, Suffolk and throughout Essex.
Exhibitions, Commissions, awards:
2023-2024
Rochford; A creative Legacy” Commission, Workshops and community artwork exhibition celebrating the district’s past and present histories - Commissioned with Philippa Stewart
2023
Hidden Voices, Basildon, Essex, Commissioned with George Morgan by Elevator Arts. Workshops and exhibition with young carers’ charity, Kool Carers
2021- 2022
Landscapes at Noon, Commissioned with Liz Harrington by the National Trust Flatford and The Essex Cultural Diversity Project (ECDP), project part of A Bigger Canvas, celebrating the 200th Anniversary of John Constable’s “The Hay Wain”. The project included an exhibition, residency, and a series of public workshops.
The exhibition was displayed in Flatford in October and November 2021, and in May 2022 and travelled to Ipswich Christchurch Mansion from June to September 2022.
2019
This Is What An Essex girl Looks Like, Beecroft Gallery, Southend On Sea
Policy Making, The Agency of Visible Womxn, Beecroft Gallery, Southend On Sea
2018
Seaside Ghost Town, Everyone Must Go, The Other MA show, Havens Department store, Westcliff-on-Sea Sea
2017
Happy Valley, Disrupting the Archives, The Other MA Show, Beecroft Gallery, Southend on Sea
Don’t you Envy Us, Ten 2 One, The Other MA, Beecroft Gallery, Southend
Essex Women, Paul Robinson Solicitors, Westcliff On Sea
2016
Emilie, portrait long-listed for the Aesthetica Prize 2016, and exhibited in York St Mary’s in April and May 2016.
2013
House of Cards, Free Range, London
Cream 13: A Showcase of Graduate Photography Talent 2013, curated by Crane Kalman Gallery at the Brighton Dome.
House of Cards, selected by Dagmar Seeland, for Source Magazine Graduate Photography Online 2013
Lottie, portrait selected by the University of Westminster to advertise the Photography Degree Course in photographic publications
2011
Mirrors of Believing, The Chapel Gallery, Nunhead
2007
Southend Hospital Commission
Listening, Free Range, London