Laurie Oxenford
Public Art Officer
Artist · Curator · Public Art Producer · Project Management
Laurie Oxenford is an early career Australian artist, curator, and public art producer. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the state, and is a part of private and public collections nationally.
Laurie’s interdisciplinary spatial practice speculates on the construction and potential of urban spaces and ecologies. Directed by materiality and site, she experiments at the intersection of everyday spatial practices such as architecture, construction, safety and maintenance. By acknowledging the temporality of all things Laurie’s work is inherently site-responsive and thrives on human and non-human exchange.
Following the successful completion of a Professional Attachment Program with Art-Work Agency for the City of Gold Coast, Laurie produced four new public murals across the Gold Coast for Water Walls 2019. Now working as a project manager and public art producer, Laurie delivers contemporary public art projects and provides public art consultation services.
Laurie Oxenford completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Spatial Construction) at the University of Southern Queensland in 2018. She was awarded the Bellmaine French Appreciation Travelling Scholarship and the Judges Choice Award at Burleigh Brewing’s Brewing Local Artist program. She was previously the Lead Curator at First Coat Studios. In 2021, Laurie exhibited her sixth solo exhibition ‘FORCES OF PRODUCTION’ at The WALLS GC, Gold Coast. In 2023 she completed an internship at Triangle Asterides in Marseille, France. In 2024 she will complete a second Professional Attachment with HOTA as a Curatorial Assistant.
Laurie is passionate about facilitating meaningful, conceptually rich public art projects and community art initiatives, providing opportunities for artists and culture producers to incite collective change. Laurie is one-half of artist collective PUBLIC PALACE, co-founded in 2020 with Grace Dewar.
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