Mouse Laura Moore

October 2010 – Ongoing

Laura Moore is a visual artist working in the traditional medium of stone. Moore carves technological gizmos, the techno-chachkas of our times - a cell phone, an analog tape, a computer mouse, a USB and a digital voice recorder - all out of marble.

Common in all of Laura’s work is a shift in scale. Scale in relation to the human body – human scale - is of prime interest. She is intrigued by the limits of scale.  How small can a particular work be and still be able to communicate its message?  How large can an environment be and still be experienced as sculpture?  How do the components of a particular work formally relate to each other and to the human body of the viewer?

Carved in stone and resized Mouse shifts perception about technology and becomes a metaphor that relates to our life experiences by exploring the tension between the monumental and the handheld, the disposable and the permanent, and the interactive and the inert. 

Laura Moore is a Canadian sculptor, originally from Chatham and holds a Masters degree in Fine Arts from York University. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Diploma of Art from Fanshawe College. Laura has been exhibiting her work since 1998.

In 2005, Laura attended the first Atlantic Stone Carving Symposium in Inverness, Cape Breton. She was one of eight artists from across Canada selected to carve Cape Breton Marble. She is a transient member of Studio Pescarella in Pietrasanta, Italy where she spends periodic time carving large scale projects. Laura is part-time sessional faculty at York University and instructs sculpture courses at the Toronto School of Art.