SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Off the Wall, Crow City Coffee, Chatham, ON

2017

The Four Housewives of the Apocalypse (part deux), Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, ON

2014

The Four Housewives of the Apocalypse, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2009

Guys & Dolls, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

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 WRITING

Fiction

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First novel, manuscript complete: historical fiction set during Prince Edward Island's silver fox boom (1900-1925)

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Island stories, RED: The Island Story Book, 2020–present (selected)

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2026

“The forgotten women of Prince Edward Island's silver fox boom”

2025

“Rayner House”

2024

“Sell me a dream”

2023

“Airstream dreams”

2022

“Grandad's quiet love”

2021

“Unravelled and respun” (poem)

2020

“The Beast”

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Literary journal

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2026

“Waves” and “Grandad's Quiet Love,” UPEI Arts Review, Vol. XV, Charlottetown

2025

“Airstream Dreams” and “Unravelled and Respun,” UPEI Arts Review, Vol. XIV, Charlottetown

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Exhibition essays

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2026

“The Reckoning Gaze: Subversion, Symbol, and the Male Body in Contemporary Still Life,” for Homme by Liana Russwurm, Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON

2023

“Postcards from the Centre of the Mind,” for What Lays Beneath, a retrospective of Leonard Jubenville, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2022

"Blood Ties", ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2019

"Exploration of My Mind's Eye", ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2016

"Offhand Re-Marks", ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2014

"The Four Housewives of the Apocalypse", Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2012

"Sacred & Profane", Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2011

"The Exhibitchin'", ARTspace, Chatham, ON

"florafaunalogical", ARTspace, Chatham, ON​

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 AWARDS AND GRANTS

2019

Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance grant, for We Come in Pieces

2016

Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance grant, for Offhand Re-Marks

2014

Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance grant, for The Four Housewives of the Apocalypse

2009

Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance grant, for Guys & Dolls

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 RESIDENCIES

2025

Manitoulin Artist & Writer Residency, Manitoulin Island, ON; produced the bulk of first novel

2024

Manitoulin Artist & Writer Residency, Manitoulin Island, ON; worked on M.A. thesis

2023

Manitoulin Artist & Writer Residency, Manitoulin Island, ON; developed work for Water, water, everywhere

2022

Manitoulin Artist & Writer Residency, Manitoulin Island, ON

2020

Manitoulin Artist & Writer Residency, Manitoulin Island, ON

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​ BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024

“The Activist Assemblage Art of Norman Barney, Terry Graff, and Laurie Rayner Langford,” Kolaj Magazine, Issue 40

2017

Kara Smith, The Artists of Crow County, Black Moss Press, Windsor, ON. Image: War Stories by Laurie Langford and Marshall Heaton

2016

Barbed Magazine, Detroit, debut issue #04, Spring 2016. Image: Our Lady of Perpetual Light (2010)

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 GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

Eye for Art juried exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2025

Water, water, everywhere: A story of water and climate change, multimedia presentation with Brinklow & Drew, Charlottetown, PE

2024

Eye for Art juried exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Water, water, everywhere, multimedia installation with Brinklow & Drew, Nordic House, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Blood Ties (with Mike Ondrovcik), Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, ON

2022

Blood Ties (with Mike Ondrovcik), ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2021

Inside, Outside, Upside Down (Remix Collective), Galerie Colline, Université de Moncton, Edmundston, NB (online, due to COVID)

2020

Cut/Paste/Resist, Student Union Building, University of New Brunswick

Schwitters' Army, Merz Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland

2019

ARTspace Members' Show, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

Far Out Show, Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, ON

We Come in Pieces (Remix Collective), Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, ON

Breaking Barriers, Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, ON

We Come in Pieces (Remix Collective), Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2018

Eye for Art juried exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Gods of Rock (with Marshall Heaton), Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, ON

Remix Gallery Collective, Remix Gallery, Petrolia, ON

Exquisite Corpse (with Marshall Heaton), Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, ON

Reuse/Remix (with Norman Barney), Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON

2017

Who Are You? (part of Nuit Blanche), Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON

Suffragette: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, Chatham-Kent Public Library, with Buxton National Historic Site & Museum, Chatham, ON

2016

Eye for Art juried exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Damned IX, Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI

Imaginarium, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Revitalized, Walkerville Artists' Co-op, Windsor, ON

Breaking Barriers, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Offhand Re-Marks (with Marshall Heaton), ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2015

ARTspace Members' Show, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

Mine, Yours, and Ours, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Women, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI

2014

The Square Foot Show, Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo, ON

Eye for Art juried exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

The League of Extraordinary Ladies (with Angelina LeDrew Bonvarlez), Glitter Milk Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI (ArtPrize)

2013

Running a Thread Through Chatham-Kent, Community Arts Initiative, ARTspace and Chatham-Kent Museum, Chatham, ON

Pin Hole Camera, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2012

The Text Show, Community Arts Initiative, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

Eye for Art juried exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Sacred & Profane (with Betty Sager), WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON

Sacred & Profane (with Betty Sager), Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2011

2011 Juried Show, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

’Tis the Season, SB Gallery, Windsor, ON

Recall, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

The Exhibitchin' (with Becky Fixter and Kelly Ridley), ARTspace, Chatham, ON

Non-Representational Painting, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Through Women's Hands, Women's Centre, Chatham, ON

Stand Up, Stand Out!, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2010

Eye for Art juried exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Through Women's Hands, Women's Centre, Chatham, ON

In the Manner of Manet, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2009

Beauty Interpreted, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

“Deconstructing Muffy” (performance with Mark Reinhart) for Beauty Interpreted, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Call and Response, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Something Queer Goes Here, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2008

Eye for Art juried exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Picture This: The Faces of C-K, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Cut It Out, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Through Women's Hands, Women's Centre, Chatham, ON

The Napkin Project, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2007

Hip 2B Square, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

Thinking Inside the Box, Community Arts Initiative, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

2006

Eye for Art juried exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

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 TEACHING AND LECTURES

2017

“Suffrage Posters,” workshop instructor (joint project with the Buxton Museum), ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2016

“Now Slide to the Right,” collage and printmaking workshop instructor, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2011

Assemblage lecture, H.B. Beal Secondary School, London, ON

2010

“Get Out of the Box,” workshop instructor, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2008

“Women in Laurie's Art,” lecture for Women's Day Conference, Chatham Women's Centre, Chatham, ON

2007

“Memory Books & Shadow Boxes,” workshop instructor, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

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 READINGS AND PANELS

2025

Reading, "Airstream Dreams," UPEI Arts Review Vol. XIV launch, Charlottetown, PE
2019

Panellist, We Come in Pieces panel discussion, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON

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 CURATORIAL AND JURYING

2023

An Ongoing Saga by Norman Barney, guest curator, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2022

Zip Code, co-juror, Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, ON

2017

The World of Kitsch by Norman Barney and Jane Austin, guest curator, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2014

Blue Planet, Community Arts Initiative, co-juror, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2011

Through Women's Hands, co-juror, Women's Centre, Chatham, ON

florafaunalogical by Jon-Erik Kroon, guest curator, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

Bombs & Babes by Marshall Heaton, guest curator, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

2010

On the Edge, Community Arts Initiative, co-juror, ARTspace, Chatham, ON

 

 ARTS LEADERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIPS

2025–

Chair, Chatham-Kent Arts Council

2024–25

Treasurer, Chatham-Kent Arts and Culture Network

2022–24

Vice Chair, Chatham-Kent Arts and Culture Network

2021–22

Secretary and founding member, Chatham-Kent Arts and Culture Network

2017–

Exhibiting member, Leamington Arts Centre

2016

Chair, ARTspace & Thames Art Gallery Advisory Board

2009–17

Member, ARTspace & Thames Art Gallery Advisory Board

2008–

Founding member and exhibiting member, ARTspace, Chatham

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 COMMISSIONS

2015

Time for Love, private collection, Windsor, ON

2013

Succulent Wild Woman, private collection, Wallaceburg, ON

2009

A Room at the Merrill Hotel, Retro Suites Hotel, Chatham, ON

2008

Sisters: For Franki, private collection, London, England

2007

Control, Dating Circus, Natural Beauty, Go Fish, and Bird Heaven, private collection, San Francisco, CA

Lisa's Helping Hands, private collection, Ann Arbor, MI

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 EDUCATION

M.A.

Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island

B.A.

English Literature and Art History, University of Toronto

Advertising and Marketing, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON

 

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