About

Laura Peturson is an artist based in northern Ontario with a practice situated in printmaking, drawing, and painting. Her large-scale print-based installations comprised of woodcut, linocut, and papercut wheatpastes have been presented in solo exhibitions at Alberta Printmakers Gallery (Calgary), Station Gallery (Whitby), and Galerie Atelier Circulaire (Montréal). In addition to exhibiting widely in Canada, and international venues, Peturson has created murals and public art projects in several Ontario cities, including Sudbury, North Bay, and Port Burwell. Her work is narrative and figurative, focusing on the lives of girls and women, and drawing upon traditions from the Golden Age of Illustration and engaging with references from literature and visual art from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Laura is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Nipissing University, where she teaches courses in drawing, painting, and printmaking.