L A Noble - Image by Chloe Rosser
Anamnesis Unbroken (Au) exhibition, London 2023
Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph by Odette England, Polaroid exhibited at Houston Center For Photography September 2020 – January 2021 Exhibition info
Essay in forthcoming publication Steidl Publishing WALL and PEACE INFO
Yvonne De Rosa's exhibition at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation at Arles 2019. Curated by Laura Noble VIMEO link
Occupy the Void - Curator for Photo50 London Art Fair 2020 Article LINK
VIP curator tours at LAF
Chairing the Curator panel discussion at London Art Fair as the curator of Photo50, 2020 - Left to right: Natasha Howes (Manchester Art Gallery), Emma Lewis (Tate), Sabina Jaskot-Gill (National Portrait Gallery) LINK
Interview at the London Art Fair Courtesy of Signature Pictures
Collecting Photography lecture at Foam Amsterdam
Opening: The Little Painting That Could, Frank & Son Art Gallery, Walthamstow Village, London - Summer 2018
Laura With Irises by Neeta Madahar on the cover of Portfolio Magazine #52 - Artist collaboration
Curator of AOP Awards 2016
Foam Magazine issues LINK
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 neurodivergent 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, 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. To see a tour of the exhibition please click here.
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.
Exhibitor:
PEACE/PIECE - Group Exhibition, exhibitor, Centre for Creative Experimentation, La Casa Verde, Barrio El Prado, Barranquilla, Colombia, Nov 2024
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
Deputy Bookshop Manager: 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
Selected 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
Books:
Salt of The Earth, Barbara Boissevain, Publisher: Kerher Verlag, 2023
Wall and Peace, Kai Weidenhöfer, Publisher: Steidl, 2025
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 / Photomonitor, UK / Street Photography, www.streetphotography.com / Laura Noble’s Blog: www.lauraannnoble.blogspot.com / Photography Book Columnist, fLIPMagazine 2005 – 2017
Guest Lecturer:
De Monteford University, Leicester, BA & MA Fine Art - 2024
UAL – London College of Communication 2017 – present
Leeds University, 2017 - present
Middlesex University, 2015 – present
Kingston University, 2014 – present
Falmouth University, 2011 – present
University of Gloucestershire, 2021
University of South Wales, 2021
University of Brighton, 2018
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge 2017
Sotheby’s Institute London 2013 – 2020
Westminster University, 2010 – 2012
Rochester University, 2012 - 2014
London Metropolitan University, 2012 – 2013
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