Laura Garcia Martin

Born
1971
Nationality
Spanish
Country
Spain
City
Manchester

 

I am a Spanish/British artist based in Manchester.  I have been living in England for the last 25 years.

My work is focused on personal experience; it explores the different social environments in which I have been immersed throughout my lifetime.  I paint from the perspective of the outsider and in exhibiting my work, I feel art to be my first language and my mother tongue. The artistic process is for me an autobiographical one. I am interested in how the space/body relationship is often fraught with difficulties; in how the boundaries of the space we occupy are shown to be supportive and damaging in turn, so that we are both protected and imprisoned, framed and fragmented by them.  

 

 

Occupation
artist
Address
1,Victoria Grove
Fallowfield
M14 6BF
Manchester
Interests
gallery
drawing
art
Languages
English
Spanish
Biography

I am a Spanish/British artist based in Manchester.  I have been living in England for the last 25 years. 

My work ranges from heavily painted canvases to collages and simpler, study-like illustrations and photography.  I studied Fine Arts (BA Hons. in Seville, 1991-1995) and Illustration with Animation at Manchester Metropolitan University (2000-2003).  I have been working and exhibiting since then, my illustrations have appeared in numerous art magazines and books published in the UK and Spain, though I focus mainly on painting.   I received First Prize for Most Outstanding Work at the Stockport Open Exhibition 2011, and have had works selected and shortlisted in numerous competitions at a national level, including Mall Galleries in London, 2014,2015 and the Royal Cambrian Academy in Conwy, 2014.  I exhibited individually in Sheffield, Cupula art gallery (2015) and Manchester, Everyman Gallery (2012).

I am an elected member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts) and of the Neo:artists collective in Bolton and have collaborated as a CG Associate Member in Castlefield Gallery My current projects include a series of drawings to be included in the Didsbury Drawing celebration 2001-2021 organised by fellow artist Cecile Elstein, as well as working on the illustrations for a new poetry collection, Deep Play by Jose Maria Garcia.

Education
Fine Arts BAHons,University Santa Isabel Hungria, Seville
Illustration with Animation BA Hons Manchester Metropolitan
Beca Erasmus, Liverpool University
Exhibitions
2017
Didsbury Live Drawing
The Parsonage
Group
2016
Waterside Open 2016
Waterside Arts Centre
Group
2016
Soul Searching
Dewsbury Museum
Group
2015
Summer exhibition
Manchester Cathedral
Group
2015
Aftermath
Cupola Art Gallery
Solo
2015
SWA Open exhibition 2015
Mall Galleries, London
Group
2014
MAFA Summer exhibition 2014
Royal Cambrian Academy of Arts
Group
2014
MAFA Spring exhibition
Portico Library, Manchester
Group
2014
SWA Open exhibition 2014
Mall Galleries, London
Group
2013
Didsbury Art Festival
The Parsonage
Group
2012
Laura Garcia Martin Solo
Everyman Art gallery
Solo
2011
Stockport Open exhibition 2011
Stockport Art Gallery
Group
2011
Didsbury Arts Festival
Didsbury Village
Group
Prizes and Awards
1st prize for more outstanding painting, 2011
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