Daily Baroque showcases her ongoing exploration of dough as a sculptural medium. Laura’s practice is driven by an interest in how chosen materials assert agency and how failure can be harnessed in the creation of work.

Working with different types of dough or with materials such as silicone rubber, she pushes materials to their limits, to the point of failure, then accepting, adapting to and incorporating that failure to create an exceptional body of work.

Daily Baroque combines newly made pieces created from pasta dough with older porcelain works. These elements are mixed and spread across the gallery on low platforms.  They seem to be captured in flux, perhaps the remnants of a larger work, or a museum display that has suffered a catastrophic collapse.

There is dynamism and tension in this presentation informed by the dough, a material that though rendered into sculpture remains organic and mutable, its captured balance here perhaps anticipating changes, shifts and falls during the run of the exhibition.

Drawing on sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s belief in his ability to render stone to look as soft as dough, the work references Baroque marble statuary and has the same tactility. The dough pieces with their delicate pinkish hues feel like both stone and flesh.

Please note: Although we love dogs at Phoenix Art Space, we cannot allow them into the gallery for this exhibition due to the nature of the work – which is very fragile and at wagging tail height. There is an exception for service dogs of course.

Baroque Bread residency 29 October – 2 November, 12-5pm

For one week of the exhibition 29 October – 2 November Laura White will be in residence making bread in the gallery, which will be shared and eaten with visitors.

Family Workshop 18 October, 11am – 1pm
Join artist Join artist Ella Hempsted for a fun family workshop inspired by Daily Baroque.
Full details here

More information on Laura White

Image credit: Laura White. KNEAD. Dough mix, food colouring, MDF, paint and concrete blocks. Dimensions variable. Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy. Courtesy Fondazione Pastificio Cerere Photography by Carlo Romano. 2025