Meet Me Here reveals a poetic exploration of personal care, leisure, body adornment and the invisible labour carried out by women’s bodies. Through soft sculpture, performance and documentation, the works immerse viewers in the rhythms of Tasmania’s unique coastal geology and tides, reconnecting the body with environmental cycles and uncovering submerged stories and possibilities. Originally exhibited at the Devonport Regional Gallery, this series of sculptural works travels the tides to the ECHO Festival 2026.
Laura Purcell is a Tasmanian artist with a 25+ year multidisciplinary practice across visual and performing arts. Her art-making and performance methods include costume, textiles, soft sculpture, improvisation, devising, photography and video. She seeks to thread and unravel tensions between personal, environmental and historical manifestations of invisible labour, care and equity.
Laura’s solo and group exhibitions have been exhibited at Devonport Regional Gallery, Sawtooth ARI, The Gallows Gallery (Launceston College), Artosaurus Gallery and Studios, The Lock Up (NSW), Contemporary Art Tasmania, Constance ARI, Mona Foma, Moonah Arts Centre, Salamanca Arts Centre and InFlight ARI.
Performance collaborations include Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Second Echo Ensemble, MonaFoma, Salamanca Arts Centre, Festivale, 10 Days on the Island, Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference USA, Puppets in Prague EU, Unima Australia.
Residencies include Poatina Arts (Arts Tasmania), Education Residency Launceston College (Arts Tasmania) and Rosamond McCulloch Studio, Cité internationale des arts, Paris (University of Tasmania, Arts Tasmania).
Laura Purcell
0422 220 616
laura@purcellllaura.com
www.laurapurcellartist.au
Introspection, 2024
Featuring Modesty Cape, soft sculpture on body.
Goat Island Reserve, NW Lutruwita / Tasmania
Archival ink jet print on Canson Platine fibre rag
Art, performance and concept by Laura Purcell. Photographed by Peter Mellows
Featuring Feat, 2024
Soft sculpture. Picnic Point Beach, NW Lutruwita / Tasmania
Art and concept by Laura Purcell. Photographed by Peter Mellows
Featuring Truth 1, 2024
Soft sculpture. Picnic Point Beach, NW Lutruwita / Tasmania
Art and concept by Laura Purcell. Photographed by Peter Mellows
Featuring Truth 2, 2024
Soft sculpture. Picnic Point Beach, NW Lutruwita / Tasmania
Art and concept by Laura Purcell. Photographed by Peter Mellows
