Unleashed

This artwork featured in the Hereford Sculpture Trail (2024). A Meadow Arts commission. 

Through her sculptures Laura White investigates the world of materials, pushing, observing, responding and playing with whatever material medium she encounters or chooses. For her sign on Widemarsh Street, White has explored what wrought iron may do if it were free to go its own way. Flowing out from the hanging structure and fixings, the result is an extravagant entanglement, a baroque twirl of dancing iron.

“For the empty metal bracket that hangs above Printer and Tailor in the centre of Hereford, I have responded to the original object and its materials to create a hanging sculpture. My piece appears to be a part of the original sign, using its own design and shapes, but as the hanging structure juts out from the building, the formal design cascades and begins to unravel, unleashing a different type of manipulation of the metal which takes on a journey of its own.” – Laura White

Unleashed was commissioned by Meadow Arts in 2024 as part of a collaborative project between Hereford College of Arts, Meadow Arts and Herefordshire Council. It is one part of the Art + People + Place programme, commissioned in partnership with Studio Response as part of the £6 million Hereford City Centre Improvements (HCCI) project.

Location: 35 Widemarsh St, Hereford HR4 9EA

Image: Laura White, Unleashed, installation view, Hereford Sculpture Trail, Hereford, 2024. Image courtesy of Meadow Arts. 

 

About the artist

Laura White

Laura White exhibited at No.1 Station Approach, Hereford, 2024 – 2025, commissioned by Meadow Arts and Hereford College of Arts; and The Precious Clay, Museum of Royal Worcester, 2018 – 2019, commissioned by Meadow Arts.

Image: Laura White, White Mud, 2018.