Laurel Gallagher is a visual artist and practitioner-researcher working across painting, textiles, photography, video and performance. Her process-led practice brings body, water and cloth together through slow, reflective making, building knowledge in collaboration with place, materials and people.

Her work moves between an upper world of wild land, birds, families and community, and an underworld of cold water, the body, fabric and acts of care. Her current research explores women, motherhood, ecology and care, drawing on archetypal stories of the feminine journey. Place, materials and myth bear witness, beyond the reach of words, to the still vigils kept while waiting for someone to return from darkness.

To talk about collaboration, research partnerships, commissions or workshops, contact laurel@feralstate.org.