LAURA DEANE
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I am a mixed media image-maker...

Photography | Collage | Illustration | Bookmaking | Textile Work

...a socially engaged documentary photographer concerned primarily with place and time. I am interested in the aesthetics of change, regeneration and ephemerality in the constructed landscape. In particular focusing on motherhood and community, I look at the implied relationship the role of motherhood creates with place, through nostalgia and observation. By taking daily life as my subject matter, I pay close attention to the banal and everyday minutiae that punctuate the role of a working mother within a community. Through this daily commentary, disconcerting beauty emerges; subconscious recognition plays an important role in the ability to tune into the aesthetic

My work has featured in exhibitions and publications over a 15 year career. As well as producing personal artwork for exhibition and freelance photographic and design work, I also teach Photography and Graphic Design, manage a community arts centre, facilitate creative workshops in the community, produce a community newspaper, and am a director of Manchester's first Library of Things.
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Levenshulme News
Levenshulme Old Library
MCR LOT
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BIOGRAPHY
Employment
 
2019-current
Manager (Programming and Fundraising)
Levenshulme Old Library CIO Community Arts Centre

2019-2021
Graphic Design Course Leader
Photography Tutor
Loreto College www.instagram.com/loretoart/
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2019
Arts Programmer
The Old Courts

2011 - 2019
Photography Course Leader
St John Rigby College

2006 - 2011
Photography Course Leader  
Loreto College
​Education
 
MA Photography | MMU  |  2013

PGCE Art and Design | MMU | 2006

BA (Hons) Photography with Philosophy | UCLan | 2005
​HE Teaching Experience
 
BA Philosophy | University of Nottingham | 2022

BA Photography | MMU | 2013

 BA Photography| UCLan | 2011

BA Photography/FD Photography | Blackpool & the Fylde College |Nov 2010

BA Photography | Stockport College | 2010


Exhibitions | Group
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2021 | Stockport Together Again
           
Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport

2020 | Levenshulme Now and Then 
            
Levenshulme Old Library, Manchester

2018 | Wigan Open 
           
The Old Courts, Wigan

2018 | Rebel Daughters
           
The Point, Doncaster

2018 | Once is not Enough 
           
The Old Courts, Wigan

2013 | MMU MA Show 
             
Chatham Building, MMU, Manchester

2012 | The World According to MAs 
           
Self Made Gallery, Manchester

2012 | The Ronald McDonald Project 
           
Manchester Children’s Hospital

2012 | The Russia Project 
           Russian National Library, St Petersburg, Russia

2012 | Curious Pursuits 
           Portico Library, Manchester

2010 | Birds 
            
Didsbury Arts Festival, Manchester

2009 | Class Acts 
             
Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University

2006 | PGCE Art and Design 
             
Institute of Education, MMU

2005 | Ellipsis… 
             
41 Turner St, Manchester

2005 | Ellipsis… 
           
PR1 Gallery, Preston

Exhibitions | Solo

​2018 | Traces 
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Levenshulme Old Library CIO, Manchester

2014 | LVE
           
Levenshulme Market, Manchester 

2014 | LVE 
           
Trove, Manchester

2011 | The Mansion 
          
Antwerp Mansion, Manchester

2010 | Abandoned Buildings
           
POD, Manchester 

2010 | Drawing with Light 
            Levenshulme Arts Festival, Manchester 

2010 | Birds
            Taurus, Manchester

2010 | Birds 
            Tarling & Tarling, Manchester 

2010 | Laura Deane at Open Gallery 
            Antwerp Mansion, Manchester 

Featured Publications
 
2021 | Lockdown Levenshulme (collaborative publication)
https://levylockdownproject.wordpress.com/

2020 | Levenshulme News (collaborative monthly publication) levenshulmenews.weebly.com/

2015 | 21 (Mark Manzi)

2014 | LVE 2 (solo zine)

2013 | The Affordances and of Potentialities of Derelict Urban Spaces (Joanne Hudson)

2013 | LVE (solo zine)

​2012 | Eyes Wide Open
collaborative publication with OpenEye Gallery
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​Workshops/Talks
 
2018 | Zine-Making
The Pankhurst Centre, Manchester

2018 | Documenting the Suffragette Centenary
The Pankhurst Centre, Manchester (x2)

2014 | Photographing and Imagining the Built Environment Liverpool Creative Workshops

2013 | For the Community
artist talk at Hothouse Manchester (Redeye)

2013 | Learning to Make Mistakes
Teaching and Learning Workshop, St John Rigby College

2012 | Stretch and Challenge
Staff Development Workshop, St John Rigby College

2010 | Freehand Embroidery Workshop
Chorlton Sewing Club, Chorlton Library

2009 | Lazertran Workshop
Manchester Catholic Education Partnership

2008 | Assessment Consultation
St Patrick’s Catholic High School, Manchester

2007 | Black History Workshop with Sam Kalubowila
​Race Relations Widening Participation Officer

The University of Manchester
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    • LVE
    • the mansion
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    • space
    • openeye
    • geometry
    • experimental
    • football
    • drawn
    • collage
    • output
  • Students
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