Laura Gallacher

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I am a Sculptor, by degree and currently living and working in Glasgow. I work currently as an Activities Coordinator in a Nursing home. I graduated from Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen in 2013, the human senses fuelled my art practice while studying; the power they have in triggering human thought, memories, emotion and reaction, how art can be an emotional immersion.

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Sound is one of the main factors which has driven and inspired my sculptures, and for a period of time I looked at this in the form of music and instruments. This however led me to areas with which I could not fully connect, creating and releasing work that I didn't really feel reflected me and my true ideals.
This made me re-think how I looked at sound and the senses, how they connected with my art. I realised not to investigate or think of sound as a musical thing, but as a science, a fact, of sound in the purest form. To think of all the senses through this ideal.
How sound works, moves and interacts with its surroundings is something most of us never have to think about, it is just an occurrence. However if you take these features of sound and look at them directly and how they can be altered, they become more than an everyday occurrence.​

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Sound art and art that involves the viewer is what my work developed into, my senses and interests that consumed me, became what surrounded the viewer to interpret in their own way. Throughout my time at Gray's Art School, I investigated how sound, visuals and immersion within sculpture could play on the audiences senses and experience of the work they were viewing.

I like to delve into using all kinds of methods, materials and technological approaches; drawing, photography, painting, Arduino boards, sensors and collage to mention a few. Each method and style would take myself on a different path of exploration that my research also influenced.

After graduating I returned home and started to read up on the ideals of Art Therapy, and its use to help many people in different circumstances. I started to volunteer with the recreational department at Erskine Hospital and doing art classes at Ardgowan Hospice for a short period of time, both of experiences confirmed for myself that I wanted to pursue a career in Art Therapy and to go on to study further. I have now been on the journey to do just that; and so it continues.

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