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Laura Gaiger

Laura Gaiger makes paintings that hold the texture of inner life. Guided by Gaston Bachelard’s poetics of space and a deep sensitivity to the collective unconscious, her work opens up the domestic as a site of resonance - intimate, symbolic, and emotionally attuned. There’s something precise and slow-burning in her work - like memory that hasn’t decided yet whether it’s private or shared. The objects hold presence. The colour holds tension. The edges of things are where the meaning moves.

The rooms, the objects, the light - none of it is incidental. Each element feels chosen by a deeper logic. Dreamlike in structure. She paints the places memory lives. Where feeling is stored. Where meaning gathers slowly.

There’s a quiet confidence in how she holds her world.
The work arrives whole. Already certain of what it’s doing.

Whatever the scale, the attention is the same - quiet, steady, certain. 
Each work is an encounter.

Her practice moves between large-scale installations and smaller works in oil and woodcut.

Gaiger studied at The Glasgow School of Art and the University of Bergen. She has exhibited widely across the UK and Europe, and now teaches painting, fresco, and colour theory at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Bergen. 

Notable Achievements 2023