Laura Noble is a working class multidisciplinary artist, curator & writer whose work explores many facets of memory, cause & effect, specifically anamnesis & processing trauma.

Laura Noble is a queer working class artist, feminist, curator & writer whose work explores many facets of memory, cause & effect, specifically anamnesis & trauma. Hailing from Manchester in the North of England & of mixed heritage, she is now based in London where she lives & works.

Her work is in Private & public collections in the UK, USA & Australia.

Trained as a painter, printmaker & sculptor Laura studied both in the UK and Australia & works in multiple medias. Her conceptual practice centres around anamnesis, a Platonic form of remembering. Exploring memory, trauma, recovery & transformation. Her socially engaged practice includes collaborative projects & immersive experiences.

From painting in oils to works on paper including collage, printmaking & drawing Noble incorporates photography, film & sculpture into her work. Performative acts are photographed & filmed often using artwork she has created. Each work informs the next. Unspoken trauma is given a voice through visual means in the safety of her practice & method.

Now based in London where she lives & works as both an artist & gallerist for LANG as well as an independent curator, writer & educator.

In 2022 she was awarded a Project Grant from the Arts Council England to create & exhibit her project Anamnesis Unbroken (Au) in 2023.

Exhibitor: 

HAND SIGNALS - Group exhibition, exhibitor & curator - GARAGE Gallery, London, 2023

DYNAMO - Group exhibition, Lakeside Centre, London 2023

Anamnesis Unbroken (Au) - Solo show, Espacio Gallery, London 2023

Gaslighting - SEAS (Socially Engaged Art Salon) Brighton, UK Jan 2021

Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthe’s Unseen Photograph – Houston Centre for Photography, Texas, USA September 2020 – January 2021

The Little Painting That Could, Frank & Son Art Gallery, London - Summer 2018

Leisure Centre (ICA publication, UK 2008

Unforgetting Solo show, Dissenter’s Gallery, London UK 2005

Twin Peeks, AIRSPACE Sydney, Australia 1996                                                   

Selected roles / CV

Artist in Residence: The Drawing Shed. Oct 2022 - Mar 2023

FIX Photo Festival Director. 2015 – present

L A Noble Gallery. Director September 2012 – present

Diemar/Noble Photography. Director. May 2009 – August 2012

The Photographer’s Gallery, London. July 2000 – April 2009

Curator / Independent

Occupy the Void Photo50 London Art Fair, 2020

Japan by Chris Steele-Perkins, Magazzini Fotografici, Naples,Italy 2019

In Negativo by Yvonne De Rosa, MRO Foundation, Arles, France, 2019

FIX Photo Festival 2015 – present

AOP Awards curator, Truman Brewery, London, 2016

Estate by Robert Clayton at Library of Birmingham, 2015

Deborah Baker: In Paradiso at The William Morris Gallery, 2014  

Member of the Judging Committee / Nominator / Sole judge:

Women Street Photographers - Judge competition NYC - Judge 2023

RPS Women In Photography - Selfies competition - Judge 2022

The Portrait of Britain Photography Award – Judge 2021 

17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award - Judge, 2021

Oskar Barnack Award – Nominator - 2021

NYC4PA – New York Centre for Photography Architecture Competition. Sole judge, 2021

Genesis Imaging Post Graduate Award, Judge, 2020

AOP Student Awards – Curator, Environment category, 2020

NYC4PA – New York Centre for Photography Dusk to Dawn Competition. Sole judge, 2019

Kyoto Prize 2018: Nominator, 2017

FIX Photo Awards, Judge, 2016 – present

AOP Awards – Judge Environment category, 2016

Prix Pictet: Nominator, 2015 – present

8th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Sole Judge, 2015

NYC4PA – New York Centre for Photography Macro Competition. Sole judge, 2015

London Photo Festival, Sole Judge, 2014

Four Corners Artist’s Residency Programme, External Advisor, 2014, 2015

AOP Awards, Judge, 2013

The Renaissance Arts Prize – Photography and Video Art Awards, 2011

Cork Street Open, 2011 

Other Roles:

Ambassador for Docking Station 2018 - present

Ambassador for Royal Photographic Society 100 Heroines 2018

Ambassador for Photovoice 2011 - 2016

Editor at Large - Photoicon Magazine. 2008 – 2010

UK Ambassador – Unseen, Photo Festival Amsterdam 2012

Books:

Salt of The Earth, Barbara Boissevain, Publisher: Kerher Verlag, 2023

Wall and Peace, Kai Weidenhöfer, Publisher: Steidl, 2023

Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph, Odette England, 2019 (text & image contributor), 2019

Invisible Jumpers, Joseph Ford/Nina Dodd, 2019 

Unreal City, Adriaan van Heerden, 2019

Form & Function, Chloe Rosser, 2018

At home with the Furries,Tom Broadbent, 2018

Estate, Robert Clayton, 2015

In Paradiso, Deborah Baker, 2014

Hidden Identities: Unfinished, 2013

Undisclosed, Bertil Nilsson, 2011

In The Deep End, Damion Berger, 2010

Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond, Jennie Gunhammar2009

Crazy God, Yvonne De Rosa 2008

Circus, Anderson & Low, 2008

The Art of Collecting Photography, Laura Noble, sole author2006

London,Luis Real 2006

Catalogue essay / contributor:

NYC4PA – New York Centre for Photography Architecture. Catalogue, 2021

University of South Wales Kaleidoscope. Catalogue, 2021

London Art Fair. Catalogue, 2020

NYC4PA – New York Centre for Photography Dusk to Dawn. Catalogue 2019

NYC4PA – New York Centre for Photography Macro. Catalogue, 2015

Four Corners FATHOM Artists Residency Catalogue, 2015

Four Corners FATHOM Artists Residency Catalogue, 2014

Artist text: (Siobhán Doran) Foto/IndustriaBiennale catalogue, Bologna, Italy, 2013

The Light Work Annual 2011, CONTACT SHEET,2011

MA Photographic Studies Degree Show 2010: Light Sensitive.Westminster University, 2010

Chrysalis, Anderson & Low, Light & Sie, USA. Catalogue, 2007

Writer:

Observer, UK

AOP Image Magazine, UK

FOAM Magazine, Netherlands

Next Level, UK

Snoeks, Belgium

f22/State Magazine, UK

Leisure Centre (ICA publication also contained some of my work – collage), UK

Eyemazing Magazine, Netherlands

Photoicon Magazine, UK

GUP, Netherlands

Hotshoe Magazine, UK

Benelux magazine COLLECT, Belgium/Netherlands

fLIP Magazine, UK

Laura Noble’s Blog: www.lauraannnoble.blogspot.com

Photography Book Columnist, fLIPMagazine 2005 – 2017

Street Photography, www.streetphotography.com 

Photomonitor, UK

Guest Lecturer: 

Falmouth University, 2011 – present

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge 2017 - present

UAL – London College of Communication 2017 – present 

Leeds University, 2017 - present

Kingston University, 2014 – present

Sotheby’s Institute London 2013 – present

Westminster University, 2010 – present

Rochester University, 2012 - 2014

London Metropolitan University, 2012 – 2013

Middlesex University, 2015 – present

University of Brighton, 2018 – present

University of Gloucestershire, 2021

University of South Wales, 2021

Seminars / Symposiums:

Lightbox Plus speaker, Redeye, The Photography Network, Manchester 2019

Women FIX Photography, FIX Photo Festival – London, 2018

AOP Awards: Beyond the lens Festival – London, 2016

FATHOM 2015 / 2016 Four Corners Symposium – London, 2015.

Four Corners Symposium – The Cass London Metropolitan University, London – Nov 2014.

Photography Career Development – GRAIN, Redeye, Library of Birmingham, Birmingham – 2013 and 2014

Rook Lane Arts Trust, Symposium, Frome, Somerset – 2013

Getting Seen: Exhibiting and Print Sales – Redeye, Manchester – 2013

Photology, Hastings – 2013

Redeye, Manchester – 2013 

MAP Transgressive Image, London College of Communication – 2012

Making It Happen, Foto8, HOST Gallery, London – 2011

Who Holds the Power to Collect?Fotogalleriet, Oslo – 2011 

Fundacio Foto Colectania, Instituto Cervantes, Barcelona – 2008

Gallery, Museum & Art Fair Lectures: 

Talks program: London Art Fair Panellist and chair, 5 talks/panel 2020

National Museum of Warsaw – 8 Nov 2015 Collecting Photography

FOAM Museum, Amsterdam – 3&4 of Sept 2012 Collecting Photography Workshop & Collecting Photography Lecture 2013

Photofever, Art Fair – Paris - 2013

Impressions Gallery, Bradford - 2013

Apex, Portsmouth - 2012

M Shed, Bristol - 2012 

Glasgow Art Fair – 2009

Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona - April 2008 Collecting Photography Lectures 

Panel Discussions / Speaker:

SheClicks, ‘Selecting Your Best Images’ – Online event, 2021

London Art Fair, Photo50: ‘Occupy the Void artist panel’ and ‘Occupy! Regaining Territory in Photography’ – London, 2020

‘When Women Gather’, RPS Women in Photography Group – London, 2018

FIX Photo Festival artist panels and tours 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020

World Photography Organisation Photographers Day, ‘Collecting Photography’ lecture - 2013 & 2014

Fotofever ‘Collecting and Conservation’ lecture – Carrousel de Louvre, Paris - 2013

Panel discussion participant, London Art Fair - 2012

Workshops: 

NOVA Womens art & wellbeing workshops using Au technique, London 2022, 2023

NOVA Festival of Learning workshop series, London 2021

NOVA A Day in the Life workshop series, London 2021 

Artist book workshop at Photofusion, 2019

Magazzini Fotografici & Photofusion with Chris Steele-Perkins, 2019

Photofusion with Chloe Rosser, London 2018

LANG on-site workshops with, Sandra Jordan, Robert Clayton, London 2016

Tri-pod workshop at Photofusion, London, 2012, 2013, 2016 & 2019.

Duke of Edinburgh Photo one-week workshop, Diemar/Noble Photography, London, 2011 

British Council ‘Youth in Action’ London, 2009

Interviewer: 

Chloe Bowman – Tuesday Talks series – LANG 2020 - present

Chris Steele-Perkins – Photofusion London - February 2019

Chloe Rosser – Photofusion London – May 2018

Roger Ballen – Rudolf Steiner House Theatre, London - London Independent Photography - April 2012

Emily Allchurch - DAIWA Foundation London - February 2011

Anastasia Taylor-Lind - Conway Hall, London - December 2010

Albert Watson, Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona - April 2008 

Portfolio Reviewer / Mentor:

Fotofest, Houston, USA September 2022

FotoNostrum, Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain December 2021

PSPF - Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs USA September 2021

Encontros Dal Imagem, Portugal, September 2021

Gloucestershire University, Kaleidoscope sessions, Gloucestershire, June 2021

Redeye Graduate Mentoring Scheme, Manchester, September 2020 - present

Fotofest, Houston, USA, March 2020

Redeye, Manchester, July 2017

Middlesex University, London, June 2016 – present.

Falmouth University, Falmouth and London, February and June 2015 – present

Photo Meet, London, November 2015 

Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, July 2009 – present 

Renaissance Art Prize, London, 2013 and 2014 

Format Festival, Derby, 2013 and 2014

Free Range, London, 2013 and 2014

London Street Photography Festival, London 2013

Ideas Tap, London 2013

Tri-pod, Photofusion, London, 2013

Host Gallery, London, 2012

Photomonth, V&A Museum of Childhood, London, 2011

L A Noble Code of Practice as a Socially Engaged Artist

 Acknowledge that people are the authority of where they reside & work. 

Use art as an instrument to be used towards reaching the goal for social change. 

Create room for the community to be heard through the space you inhabit. 

Understand that things take time to develop & giving yourself this time is essential. 

Understand your intentions, be truthful & share them. 

Never assume – this is a recipe for disaster.

Understand when you need to pause & take stock in order to take care of your own wellbeing. 

Understand that artist’s worth is in bringing new perspectives to facilitate creation & change. 

Always support other socially engaged artists, celebrate, share & encourage their practice.

Work collaboratively.     

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