Artist and researcher Laura Harrington makes work that considers the complex relations between humans and landscapes, often through fieldwork, cross-disciplinary research and collaborative working.

Using a variety of methods and media, including filmmaking, installation, drawing, fieldwork and listening, Laura’s practice centres on ‘upstream consciousness’, a framework that connects rivers, peatlands and other upland and mountain ecologies to global currents. Process and interaction are also central to her practice, with research both physically and conceptually embedded in, and significantly informed by, her direct experience with specific landscapes.

CV

Laura was awarded a practice-based doctorate at Northumbria University (2022) for research exploring artists’ fieldwork activities to consider new ecological, spatial and material understandings.

She has been supported through a range of international residencies and commissions funded by arts councils, foundations, cultural and academic institutions, regional arts organisations and environmental agencies.

Recent exhibitions, residencies and transdisciplinary research projects include WaterLands/iCASP (Europe/Leeds), ALTER/TSOEG (Switzerland), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, (UK), The NewBridge Project (UK), RADAR, Loughborough University (UK), UGM/EKO8 (Slovenia), MIMA, (UK), UNIDEE/Cittadellarte (Italy), Hangmen Projects (Stockholm), HIAP (Finland), and Invisible Dust (UK).

Skills & Experience

  • Financial skills
  • Project management
  • Technical: photographic / moving image
  • Visiting lecturer (FE)
  • Visiting lecturer (HE)
  • Working with schools (primary)
  • Working with schools (secondary)
  • Workshops (family / general)
  • Workshsops (adult)

Laura Harrington, Fieldworking artists’ camp in August 2020. With Chris Bate, Ludwig Berger, Sarah Bouttell, Luce choules, Simone Kenyon, Fiona MacDonald (Feral Practice), Meredith Root-Bernstein and Lee Patterson at Moor House NNR. Photo by Laura Harrington.
Laura Harrington, Haggs #1-4, 2014 & An Accidental Anti Connection, 2022, exhibition detail from BALTIC 2023-23. Photo by John McKenzie.
Laura Harrington, Fieldworking, 2020, installation detail from BALTIC 2022-23. Photo by John McKenzie.
Laura Harrington & Meredith Root-Bernstein, Cleambering (flip book), 2020. Photo by Laura Harrington.
Laura Harrington, A Yarn, 2019, exhibition detail from Cittadellarte, Italy 2019. Photo by Enrico Amici.
Laura Harrington, Mirescape, 2019, exhibition detail from Auxilliary Project Space 2019. Photo by Laura Harrington.
Laura Harrington, Liveliest of Elements, 2015, installation detail from Woodhorn Museum 2015. Photo by Wig Worland.
Laura Harrington, A child of its Time, 2014, exhibition detail from A Lively Sense of Nature, BALTIC 39, 2014. Photo by Colin Davison.
Laura Harrington & Kaffe Matthews, Where are the Wild Ones? Documentation of an audio-visual opera performance at Guildhall, Newcastle, August 2012.
Laura Harrington, Layerscape (peat bogs), 2012, presented at Moor House-Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve, UK as part of AV Festival 12 As Slow As Possible. Photo by Laura Harrington.

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