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Laura Vickerson

Laura Vickerson is a Canadian artist who works with mixed media in site-specific situations. She often includes discarded household items in her projects as a comment on changing trends, consumerism and human relationships with everyday objects. Vickerson was a professor in Craft and Emerging Media at the Alberta College of Art and Design, where she taught starting in 1989. Vikerson retired in 2020 and is now a Professor Emeritus. In 2018 she was part of the exhibition entitled Fabrications at the Kelowna Art Gallery, along with three fellow women installation artists from different regions of Canada -- Libby Hague, Gisele Amantea, and Yael Brotman. Her piece, entitled Air, invites guests to lie barefoot below a canopy of cream-coloured translucent pieces of used clothing that she sewed together and suspended nearly 10 feet above the floor. Fairy Tales and Factories was a site specific work created by Laura Vickerson for Locus+ in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and exhibited March 26-April 9, 1999. It was her first show in the UK. The installation consisted of a cape, 4 metres wide and 21 metres long, created from hundreds of thousands of rose petals pinned to organza. The garment was made on-site at Farfield Mill, which closed after 169 years of linen production, in collaboration with a local women's group, the Sedbergh Stitchers. Conversations with them and people connected to the building were recorded and played during the show.
Creator Id: 628
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Alberta
Year of Birth: 1959
City: Calgary
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: fibre, installation, textiles
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Work by Laura Vickerson

Hive

Work ID: 19615

Measurements: 274.32 x 274.32 x 274.32 cm/po

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Cataract

Work ID: 19616

Measurements: 365.76 x 1219.2 x 30.48 cm/po

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Cataract (detail)

Work ID: 19617

Measurements: 243.84 x 365.76 cm/po

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Inside Out

Work ID: 19622

Description: Armour/Amour series.

Measurements: 58.42 x 27.94 x 15.24 cm/po

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El Corazon

Work ID: 19620

Description: Learning Spanish series.

Measurements: 35.56 x 55.88 x 5.08 cm/po

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La Mano

Work ID: 19618

Description: Learning Spanish series.

Measurements: 25.4 x 60.96 x 5.08 cm/po

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Pinned in Place

Work ID: 19621

Description: Armour/Amour series.

Measurements: 40.64 x 20.32 x 12.7 cm/po

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La Corona

Work ID: 19619

Description: Learning Spanish series.

Measurements: 43.18 x 45.72 x 5.08 cm

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Studies of Nature II

Work ID: 19625

Measurements: 365.76 x 182.88 x 101.6 cm/po

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Fragile Heart

Work ID: 19626

Measurements: 365.76 x 792.48 x 762 cm/po

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Velvet

Work ID: 19627

Description: 4th century church, Istanbul for the Istanbul Biennial.

Measurements: 914.4 x 2133.6 x 914.4 cm/po

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Embroidered Corset 1700

Work ID: 19623

Description: underthings series.

Measurements: 45.72 x 27.94 2/5 x 27.94 1/2 cm/po

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Trace (detail)

Work ID: 19629

Measurements: 274.32 x 822.96 x 1584.96 cm/po

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Trace

Work ID: 19628

Description: installation view.

Measurements: 274.32 x 822.96 x 1584.96 cm/po

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Rib Corset

Work ID: 19624

Description: underthings series.

Measurements: 60.96 x 30.48 x 20.32 cm/po

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Red Rose Curtain

Work ID: 19633

Description: at the Gairloch Gallery, Oakville, Ontario

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Fairfield Mill

Work ID: 19632

Description: site of Fairy Tales & Factories, in Sedbergh, Cumbria, England.

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Fairy Tales & Factories (Rose Petal Cape)

Work ID: 19631

Measurements: 274.32 x 127 x 2133.6 cm/po

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Offering

Work ID: 19634

Description: at the Église St. Roch.

Measurements: 792.48 x 914.4 x 1524 cm/po

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William’s Carnations [detail]

Work ID: 54876

Measurements: 0.4872 x 0.6612 m/pi [flat/à plat], 0.3132 x 0.2436 x 0.18792 m/pi [installed/installé]

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William’s Carnations

Work ID: 54875

Measurements: 0.4872 x 0.6612 m/pi [flat/à plat], 0.3132 x 0.2436 x 0.18792 m/pi [installed/installé]

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Blanc Sur Blanc

Work ID: 54877

Measurements: 0.309372 x 0.9546336 m x 0.353568 cm/po

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Blanc Sur Blanc [detail]

Work ID: 54878

Measurements: 0.309372 x 0.9546336 m x 0.353568 cm/po

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Power and Privacy

Work ID: 54879

Measurements: 0.2958 x 0.3306 m/pi

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Power and Privacy [detail]

Work ID: 54880

Measurements: 0.2958 x 0.3306 m/pi

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Cuttings

Work ID: 54886

Measurements: 30.48 cm in diameter/po de diamètre

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Rebox [installation]

Work ID: 54885

Measurements: 5.08 x 5.08 x 12.7 cm/po

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Rebox [installation]

Work ID: 54884

Measurements: 5.08 x 10.16 x 17.78 cm/po

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Rebox [installation]

Work ID: 54883

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Rebox [installation]

Work ID: 54882

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Rebox [installation]

Work ID: 54881

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White Tent & Tarp [daytime]

Work ID: 54891

Measurements: 0.348 x 0.3132 x 0.2784 m/pi

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White Tent & Tarp, [detail, nighttime]

Work ID: 54894

Measurements: 0.348 x 0.3132 x 0.2784 m/pi

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White Tent [daytime]

Work ID: 54892

Measurements: 0.2784 x 0.2436 x 0.1566 m/pi

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Blue Chip

Work ID: 54887

Measurements: 0.1044 x 0.19488 m/pi

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Ming, Mao And McDonald’s

Work ID: 54889

Measurements: 0.10788 x 0.1044 m/pi

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Ming, Mao And McDonald’s [detail]

Work ID: 54890

Measurements: 0.10788 x 0.1044 m/pi

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Blue Chip [detail]

Work ID: 54888

Measurements: 0.1044 x 0.19488 m/pi

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White Tent [detail, daytime]

Work ID: 54893

Measurements: 0.2784 x 0.2436 x 0.1566 m/pi

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