Laurie Langford is a thought provoking Canadian assemblage artist based in Chatham, Ontario.
Langford inserts subversive humour into her installations to prick debate on contemporary gender expectations. Her mixed-media shadow boxes, collages, photography, and print-making over write the conventions of sexuality, domesticity, family, history and the body. Inspired by the artists Barbara Kruger, Elizabeth "Bloodbath" McGrath, Norman Barney, as well as poets, e.e. cummings and Edgar Allan Poe, Langford's work narrates "Pop Culture innocence gone horribly wrong" (Vanderwall, 2011).
Langford uses a detailed, mixed-media overlay method to bring forth the dissenting story in each found piece, thereby disturbing the viewer's comfortable seat in the world.