Laura Algar
Most recently at the Serpentine Galleries, London, she worked as Curatorial Assistant on James Barnor: Accra/London, A Retrospective (2021), and as Editorial Assistant for the accompanying exhibition catalogue; she also produced research for numerous Serpentine projects and live events from 2016-2021.
She has produced exhibitions at Roman Road, London, including Natalia LL: Probabilities (2016), Thomas Mailaender: Ultraviolet (2016) and Antony Cairns: Process (2016). As Curator at ATLAS Gallery, London, she worked closely alongside photographer and educator Floris Neusüss to curate Light Works: The Art of the Photogram (2016), where she also produced exhibitions Ernst Haas: Reconstructing London (2015), Marc Riboud: Paris to Peking (2015), Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders (2015), and Spring Revolutions: May 1968 - A Tale of Two Cities (2014).
Together with her husband, Graphic Designer Chris Algar, she created Photolocale, a print publication featuring interviews with London-based photographic artists, and co-founded Amarra, an online journal profiling visual arts pratitioners in East Anglia - due to launch in 2022.
Since 2017 she has been providing private research services for professionals in the visual arts, along with copy-editing, transcription and ghost/writing in the form of essays, catalogue texts, and articles for industry periodicals.
Having been awarded a DYCP grant from the Arts Council in summer 2021, she is currently undertaking a period of research on arts intitiatives and practitioners across Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex under the title A Topography of Arts and Culture in East Anglia.
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