Inside the Creative World of Artist Laura Porter | The Culturalist by CONCEPT

In this film trailer, part of The Culturalist by CONCEPT, we explore Laura Porter’s creative journey — from process and materiality to the quieter moments that shape an independent creative practice. Laura Porter’s work exists in the liminal spaces — between material and memory, structure and decay, the human-made and the organic. Born in Lewisham and now based between North Devon and South London, her practice is rooted in transformation — of materials, labour, and the ways we assign value to both. Working with discarded clothing, Laura breaks garments down to their rawest forms, reshaping them into sculptural structures that carry embedded histories of land, labour, consumption, and waste. Through slow, physical processes — repetitive, labour-intensive, and deliberately resistant to automation — her work challenges contemporary ideas of efficiency and productivity, instead foregrounding time, touch, and embodied making. Her practice pushes at the boundaries of what is living and what is inert, what is ruin and what is renewal. In her hands, materials become something else — shifting, evolving, and absorbing time like a living organism, existing in the in-between, neither fixed nor forgotten. Alongside her practice, Laura is the founding director and curator of Studio KIND., a contemporary art space in Braunton, Devon. 🎬 Watch the full documentary film and read the editorial interview at: 👉 https://www.concept.world