ABOUT

Laurie Oxenford (b.1997) is an early career artist, curator and producer speculating, subverting and critically reimagining the potential of urban spaces and ecologies. She experiments at the intersection of informal and formal public practices related to architecture, maintenance, mapping, construction and governance. She uses found material to query the way urban spaces are formed, reformed and participated in. Resourcefulness, process and materiality take precedence. Laurie’s work is inherently site-responsive, thriving on human and non-human exchange.

In 2025, Laurie will exhibit her seventh solo exhibition with Good Grief Studios (nipaluna/Hobart). In 2023 she completed an internship at Triangle Asterides in Marseille, France. She is the Exhibitions Officer at HOTA, Home of the Arts and was previously Project Curator with Art-Public (Art-Work Agency) and Lead Curator at First Coat Studios, Toowoomba. Laurie completed the City of Gold Coast Generate GC program.

Laurie is a Co-Director of artist collective, PUBLIC PALACE, founded with Grace Dewar in 2020. Their recent collaborative and curatorial projects include Objects as Social Practice at The Field ARI; Medium Rare: Discount Pool Supplies via The WALLS GC, TOTAL PROCESS at Floating Land Festival; ‘IT’S ONLY A GIFT (IF YOU SEE IT AS A GIFT)’ at Outer Space Brisbane; PURE POTENTIAL: do you know when you are *working*? at THE OLD LOCKUP, COSMIC USEFULNESS at Elevator ARI and TOTAL TRANSCENDENCE at Tropical Fruits. In 2025 they will make new work at Slag Heap Projects (Wilyakali and Barkindji Country/Broken Hill) and with Byron Shire Council.