Laura Halsey Brown is an interdisciplinary artist; she works across art, architecture and the psychology of place. Her work articulated a public ‘sense of place’ in locations such as NYC (New Museum), San Francisco (Presidio) and the Netherlands (CBK Rotterdam).Her practice shifted to an interior processing of places she has lived, after receiving a diagnosis of autism (AuADD) in 2020.

My new project “the unconscious is a window” is based on buildings/homes I’d lived in. The work integrates mediums such as drawing, photography (cyanotype) and sculpture. It refers to the physicality of – and the importance of my relationship to – architecture by using found window frames. The ‘frame’ is a container of the exploration of my psychological relationship to these places. The project is a (re)consideration of their affect on me, revealing what the walls/rooms are imbued with. I’m interested in inspiring the viewer to reflect on their personal history within the places they’ve lived.

Since 2017, she’s lived on the SW WA coast, on the unceded land of the Chinook; combining her art practice with arts counseling. She is the Director/Founder of ArtWell.studio.