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Laura Banfield is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist working across performance (PE), wearable artifacts (WE), installation (I), photography (PH), film (F), and workshops (WO).

Throughout her commissioned pieces and collaborative projects, and personal work, Laura explores notions of performance, material, bodies, and fashion. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. Beyond this work, she lectures within the Bachelor of Fashion (Design) program at RMIT University.

Exhibitions  NGV Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, Melbourne Fashion Festival, Berlin Fashion Week, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Marfa Gallery, Wolfhound Gallery

Clients  Confidence Man, Polito, Deanne Butterworth, Lambert, RMIT University, Grimshaw Architects, OCTA

Press  Le Mile, To Be Magazine, Mileu Melbourne, Anyone Girl, Vogue Italia

Talks  ACMI X Industry Night, RMIT University Careers Day


Significant Surfaces  F, I, WE
Performance of Postures  PE, I
Moving Parts  PE, I
Moving Parts  PH, I
Frame Within Frame  PH, I
A Device for Daydreaming  PH, WE

Surface: A Temporary Recording Medium  PH, WE
The Intersection of Body and Material  WO


I    @laurabanfield
E   laurarbanfield@gmail.com




Significant Surfaces (2023)  FILM, INSTALLATION, WEARABLE ARTIFACT

Collaboration with Alexandra Kirwood & OCTA
Presented at Melbourne Fashion Festival
Supported by City of Melbourne

An 11-meter-long public video installation located in Carlton, Victoria. The project explores relationships between bodies and images as they are mediated by screens. When comparing the saturation of digital images with other images, such as those of our daydreams, questions arise about the organisation, access, consumption and authorship of images. Every image is, however, caught up in creating our realities and identities–physical and digital. We are bodies, but it seems we are made up of images too.


Film directed & edited by Laura Banfield & Alexandra Kirwood
Cinematography: Jesse Gohier-Fleet
AC: Claire Giuffre
Gaffer: Jaydan de Oliveira
Best Person: Alfie Haddon
Colourist: Ted Deacey
Score: Planète
Talent: Renata Liu
HMUA: Kara Iacobellis
Styling by Alexandra Kirwood & Laura Banfield
Styling assistant: Kitty Koper
Designers: Charlie Stewart Connor Milton, Judith Sharkey, Kitty Koper, Laura Banfield, Lott Studio, Matthew Buxton, Monroe the Label
Location: Toffee Studios

Installation design and concept: OCTA
Fabrication: Old Four Legs
System design: Nick Roux
Audio hardware: Carlton Audio Visual