Paper Cave Anti-Rave
Laura McGlinchey

Paper Cave Anti-Rave

Based in Glasgow for the lockdown, McGlinchey has been able to continue to work in her studio where she has been building extraordinary sculptural installations using recycled bill board posters, event flyers and advertising materials, to create densely worked, cave-like environments.

These materials have a particular poignancy now, as ephemeral records of our social lives before Covid, that recall the connectedness and collaboration of the urban creative scenes that already seem part of another world.For Paper Cave Anti Rave she will be building a new installation and stream fly on the wall documentation of the time spent in the studio and collaborative events with musicians and poets over the course of the month.

Biography

Born in Liverpool in 1990, raised in Ayrshire. Laura studied Painting at Grays from 2009-2013 where she gained a BA with First Class Hons. She was selected for RSA New Contemporaries 2014 and awarded the Waters Maclaine Medal and RSA Art prize. From this she was selected for the New Scottish Artists Exhibition in 2014 at Fleming Collection Mayfair, London. in 2015 Laura began a year long residency in the painting department at Grays school of art and presented her first major solo show in 2016. Laura returned to Glasgow and continued to exhibit across Scotland and work from her studio in the east end, which she helped set up with now disbanded artist collective VAU, until she attended Glasgow School of Art in 2019, achieving a Master of Letters degree in Fine Art practice with distinction. In October 2019 Laura attended a month long residency in Switzerland run by artist Nina Rodin where she was quickly invited back to exhibit the large installation made during her time there. Laura currently works from a small studio in Glasgow city centre, but for this installation, she has rented a whole floor in the Pipe Factory.