ARTIST STATEMENT

Laura Bullock is an artist based in Edinburgh who spent her formative years in the Fenlands of Lincolnshire. Interweaving personal history with material investigation, she explores emotional blueprints, transferred through generational value systems. Through a meticulous, inter-disciplinary approach, including installation, printmaking and sculpture, she sensitively reflects on her lived experience of familial estrangement through the fragile architecture of inherited memory.

Reflecting on Gaston Bachelard’s ‘The Dialectics of Outside and Inside’, from his book The Poetics of Space, she analyses the interplay of interior and exterior through the phenomenology of material histories. Incorporating jewellery, elements of domestic décor, and utilitarian materials in a rhythmical response to space, she aims to highlight the complex and delicate underpinnings of the psychological patterns we impart. Laura utilises her sensitivities to intuitively explore repetition as a method to expose difference rather than sameness.

Seeking to underscore the preciousness and precarity of emotional inheritance, Laura transforms everyday details into poetic markers of presence and absence, which bear the weight of the histories we inherit and the histories we choose not to hand down.

Laura was awarded a John Kinross Scholarship by the Royal Scottish Academy (2025) and will be travelling to Florence in October to begin a body of research in relation to her work from the MFA.