FORTHCOMING
Wanderer
Solo exhibition
Zalucky Contemporary
3044 Dundas Street W
Toronto, ON
June 5 - July 26, 2025
Opening reception: June 5, 5–8pm
The act of walking can be practised as a form of healing. Walking through dark thickets where forest sound is held close to earthen and vegetal bodies, and to ours; spaces where soils are soft and rich with layers of growth and life-giving rot, where we too may slough off our skin and all thought; places that teem beyond our ability to see or to know, so dense and full that a person might feel inconsequential yet potent with potential in equal measure. Such spaces are ideal for reattuning to self–and world–via an internal churning as paced by footfall. Whether following a path that others have tread, or carving our own meanders, walking opens us up for encounter.
- Laura Hudspith
Through years of practicing walking meditation–a ritualized wandering that has become central to the artist’s life and process–Hudspith’s latest body of work marks a turn toward magical thinking, drawing on her personal archive of photographs taken during her walks as source material. Looking at the trails left by insects in the wood of fallen trees, patterns that reflect intuitive knowledge begin to emerge. Their trails appear as an arcane language or unknowable script that articulates a wisdom all its own.
Guided by her experience living with chronic illness, Hudspith has come to see molecules, cells, viral and inorganic matter as autonomies possessing distinct knowledges. Intangible forces too can reshape the physical body at the molecular level, effects which can seem almost ‘magical’ in nature. Through her work, Hudspith harnesses these forces for healing and growth, creating meditative installations for inward-looking and deep feeling.
Between the Cracks in the Sidewalk
Three-person Exhibition
McBride Contemporain
372 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, #414
Montréal, QC
June 12 - July 19, 2025
Opening reception: June 12, 5–8pm
McBride Contemporain presents Between the Cracks in the Sidewalk, a group exhibition featuring the work of Laura Findlay, Laura Hudspith, and Laurel Rennie. The exhibition offers glimpses of the unseen forces that shape our world in ways we often overlook. These are the forces that move beneath our feet, course through our bodies, and emerge after nightfall. Their presence remains perceptible, but only if we attune ourselves to what seeps through the thin seams of our attention.
As children, we skipped over the lines in the pavement playfully, convincing ourselves that danger was nested in those slim gaps. As adults, we still unconsciously sidestep the fissures, yet what grows through them insists on being noticed. Between the Cracks in the Sidewalk lingers in those openings, encouraging us to pause where the surface gives way to feel the restless forces pressing through.
RECENT
Smash the ceiling, floor, and walls; take the broken shards and blow it back
Group Exhibition
Pittsburgh Glass Center
5472 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
October 4, 2024 - January 20, 2025
Collectors preview: October 2, 6–8PM
Smash the ceiling, floor, and walls; take the broken shards and blow it back critically analyzes the personal, professional, and political implications of heteronormative and patriarchal barriers through the creative work of femmes and gender non-conforming artists. By reframing the social issue through interactions: smashing, gathering, and blowing, this exhibition references some of the ways artists are actively processing their lived experiences. Smash the ceiling, floor, and walls; take the broken shards and blow it back considers how both national and international trailblazing artists across generations continue to boldly and unapologetically advocate for equality, freedom from violence and sexual harassment, professional recognition, bodily autonomy, sexual liberation, human health rights, and self-empowerment beyond every last real and imagined sheet of glass.
Curated by Alyssa Velazquez, this comprehensive exhibition features works by Sandra Bacchi, Dawn Bendick, Layo Bright, Scout Cartagena, Laura Hudspith, Michelle Young Lee, Aullar Mateo, Anna Mlasowsky, Audie Murray, Kathleen Mulcahy, Gracia Nash, Karen Donnellan and Suzanne Peck, Renata Petersen, Georgia Saxelby, Kristiina Uslar, and Ann Weathers.
Internal Circumstances
Solo exhibition
CIBC Square
81 Bay Street, 7th floor gallery
Toronto, ON
Sept 10, 2024 - Jan 31, 2025
Previewing reception: Sept 10, 1 - 5pm
Internal Circumstances is a solo exhibition of new works in stained glass and copper by Laura Hudspith, that brings together the enduring knowledges and agential forces held within the more-than-human world and at our core.
Enduring Emanations
Solo exhibition
Mrs.
60-19 56th Road
Maspeth, NY
May 3 - June 29, 2024
Opening reception: May 3rd, 4 - 6pm
Enduring Emanations is a solo presentation of recent work by Canadian artist Laura Hudspith. In this series titled Emanations, Hudspith’s research and interests in medicine, biochemistry, in/organic matter, and geology converge. Using her body and its illness as source material, this series encourages introspection on a molecular scale to consider the potential and bounds of ontology.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“A historical and contemporary primer on stained glass"
Essay by Angel Callander in Public Parking
May 29, 2023
The history of stained glass is ancient and global. But given the conceptual demands of contemporary art, stained glass is a supple and compliant medium that can be imbued with almost any concern. What is most interesting about looking at these artists together is that, contrary to what one might expect, the more secular character of stained glass is largely sidestepped in favour of a slight bend towards spirituality and religiosity, often in critical, ironic, or unconventional terms. Materially, stained glass is combined with other quotidian or industrial elements, either in an effort to aggrandize the latter or situate the former as pragmatic and functional.
Public Parking is a journal for storytelling, arguments, and discovery through tangential conversations. "A historical and contemporary primer on stained glass" was written by Toronto based writer and researcher, Angel Callander, with editorial support by Emily Doucet. Read Callander’s essay available here.
“Mutable Matters: A Conversation with Laura Hudspith”
Interview by Katie Lawson in Peripheral Review
March 15, 2023
Peripheral Review is an independent platform for documenting and expanding the emerging and under-represented Canadian art scene, as well as enabling access for emerging writers by encouraging accessible critical dialogue. Interviewer, Katie Lawson, is a curator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Read “Mutable Matters: A Conversation with Laura Hudspith” here.