| Laura Buckley | |
| Birth Date: | 1977 |
| Birth Place: | Galway |
| Death Date: | 2022 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Alma Mater: | NCAD Chelsea College of Art and Design |
| Known For: | Fata Morgana |
Laura Buckley (1977–2022) was an Irish video and installation artist, and sculptor. Born in Galway, Ireland, she lived and worked in London.[1] She exhibited throughout the UK and internationally.[2]
Buckley was born in County Galway, Ireland and lived in a small town. After graduating from NCAD in Dublin in 2000, she received her MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London in 2007.[3] [4]
Buckley worked in various digital and video medias including "moving image, kinetics, sound, light, sculpture and digital print".[5] She described to Bomb magazine in 2014 that she had stopped painting and started "painting with light". She hoped her work made people feel: "A connection. Less alone."[6] A Frieze review described her installations as containing eclectic sources "that provided the intricate layers for Buckley’s sound, video and sculptural installations."[7]
Fata Morgana was a "dazzling and disorientating large-scale",[8] walk-in, kaleidoscope installation Buckley made for Cell Project Space in 2012.[9] It was shown again in 2019 for a group exhibition titled Kaleidoscope at Saatchi Gallery.[10] [6]
Buckley exhibited at Mother's Tankstation in Dublin in 2010, and was part of Into Boundless Space I Leap, an exhibition based on the work of Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell at the University of Cambridge in 2016.[11] She also exhibited at Art House – an illegally constructed 'beach house' on a roof in Hackney – in 2016.[12] She collaborated with many artists in exhibitions and performances including Kim Coleman at Block 336 (2016),[13] Paul Purgas at the Whitechapel Gallery (2015),[14] Dan Coopey at Turner Contemporary (2013), and with Dave MacLean and Haroon Mirza at Rokeby (2009).
Her work is in the Zabludowicz Collection.