Laurel Woodcock

Laurel Elizabeth Woodcock (October 22, 1960 – January 7, 2017) was a Canadian artist and academic. She worked in many formats including installation, video, and sculpture.

Biography Laurel Woodcock was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and earned her MFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, 1992) and BFA at Concordia University (Montreal, 1987). After establishing her career in Montreal, she moved to Toronto in 2000 to teach at the University of Guelph, Ontario, where she was the area coordinator for Extended Practices at the College of Arts.

Exhibitions A substantial survey exhibition of Woodcock's work was curated by Michelle Jacques at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery in 2012. She often drew on language--playlists, book titles, flyleaves, turns of phrase, punctuation, commercial signage--to complicate linear readings and invite multiple interpretations of pop culture and the everyday. Her works include On a clear day, a sculpture in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her work is also in the collections of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and McCarthy Tétrault.