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LAURA PURCELL

Creative Solutions. Site Specific. Beyond Traditional.

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About Laura

Credit: Natalie Mendham

Credit: Natalie Mendham

 
 
Activate imagination

My mission is to activate the imagination of the everyday human. My vision is to challenge the perceptions of art-making and production, animate non-traditional spaces, merge fact with fiction, share deeply human emotion through symbolic narrative and connect with residents of Tasmania and beyond. 

Internally and externally to the performance setting, I focus on themes of identity through a feminist lens utilising body, architecture and site. I experiment with styles of performance and visual art-making methods with improvisation, visual art, puppetry and dance. Manipulating - and manipulated by - the object, puppet or self, I develop characters, alter-ego's, costume and sculptures, devising and coordinating solo and collaborative works. .

I have worked broadly across the Tasmanian arts sector, nationally and internationally, as artist, actor, performer and puppeteer, creating and contributing to independent, experimental and commercial works and initiatives.

I seek to investigate the individual disciplines of fine art, visual theatre, puppetry and performance, towards developing methods of blending or hybridisation. 

My home is Tasmania, the southern-most part of Australia.


Flowers and fur
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#vintageclothing #portrait #flowersandfur #freeingartisticdesires #blackandwhite #everydaycostume
6.41pm, Monday 3 December 2018.
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#northwestbay #rainbow #artistlife #tasmania #home #summer #channelregion
Reconnecting with self. Sunday 4 November, 6.16am. @pureyogatasmania #yogaretreat #morningmeditation #eaglehawkneck #tasmania
@pureyogatasmania morning meditation time #eaglehawkneck #yogaretreat
Perspective.
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@ticklebackridgevineyard @tease_hobart #icesand #schwarzkopfprofessional #vineyardfashion #vineyardlife #artistlife #hairbyben #channelregion #ticklebackridge #ticklebackridgevineyard #vineyard #coolclimatewines
When I had hair and when I got to stand between these strong unstoppable beauties. Always bringing joy and nourishment to the peeps. Thinking of you @patanella325 you got this.
#flashback #flashdance #dancingqueens #dressups #disco #tasmania #party #bighairbiglife
Repost - THE GHOSTS OF NOTHING - IN MEMORY OF JONNY B. GOODE combines visual art, music, performance and multi-media installation creating a dark, slippery, tragicomic fictional world that is simultaneously bizarre, desperately sad and playful. On at The Lock-Up until 19 August. 
IMAGE: The Ghosts of Nothing (feat. Laura Purcell) Black Butterflies performed at Hobart Convict Penitentiary, Hobart, Tasmania (still).
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#performanceart #theghostsofnothing #thelockupartspace #newcastleindependentgalleries @independentgalleriesnewcastle #exhibition #majorexhibition #puppetry #performance #sculpture #artist #artistlife #hobartconvictpenitentiary @nationaltrusttas #tasmanianartist

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