Laura Grace Ford is a London-based artist and writer concerned with spatial narratives, contested space, architecture, fiction and memory. Drawing on cognitive mapping and the dérive, Ford interrogates place by mapping the psychic contours of the city. Ford completed a PhD (Threshold Cartographies: The Poetics of Contested Spade) at the RCA 2021. In 2013-2014 she was Stanley Picker Fellow at Kingston University. She is author of Savage Messiah (Verso, 2011) and most recently was a Somerset House Studios resident. Recent shows and projects include: 'The Horror Show', Somerset House, 2022; 'Digital Citizen', Baltic 2019; and 'Open Your Palm, Feel the Dust Settling There', Somerset House, London 2018.