Laurence Tidy was born in Guildford in 1993 and grew up in Woking, Surrey. Prior to becoming an artist, Laurence completed a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Spanish) at the University of Cambridge in 2015 and then worked in secondary education and for an environmental charity, amongst other areas. In 2021 he moved to Brighton to pursue the Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at Brighton Metropolitan College and subsequently the BA in Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton. In 2024 he received a Highly Commended Award for the Homiens Art Prize Summer round. He currently works in assemblage, joining found and pristine materials to explore sculptural shape, form, and the identity of finished pieces, punctuating the process with paint in an exploratorymanner.