Laurie Rayner Langford
Laurie Rayner Langford makes shadow boxes, collages, and prints,
and writes Island stories, art essays, and fiction.
Based in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.
WRITING
Island stories published in RED: The Island Storybook, exhibition essays,
and a historical novel by Laurie Rayner Langford.
Her first novel, now complete, follows a district nurse through four decades of
the Island's silver fox boom, when a single breeding pair could sell for more than a
farm, and the Rayner family's fortune rose and fell with the market.
Claire Stewart nurses that family, keeps their secrets, and keeps a notebook.
More to come.
RED: The Island Story Book
PUBLISHED WORKS
2026 - The day I almost flew
- The forgotten women of Prince Edward Island's silver fox boom
- The price of silver
2025 - The island makes creative people and creative people make the Island
- A glass from the past
- Rayner House
2024 - On the edge
- Sell me a dream
2023 - Airstream dreams
- Fairyland playhouses
- The Trailblazer at halfway
- Waves
2022 - Grandad's quiet love
- Hold your horses
- Written in the sand
- Islands
2021 - Hide and ghost seek
- Mary's crown
- Unravelled and respun (poem)
2020 - The Beast
- Good fences make good neighbours
Exhibition essays
2026 - The Reckoning Gaze: Subversion, Symbol, and the Male Body in Contemporary Still Life : exhibition essay for Homme by Liana Russwurm; Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario
2023 - Postcards from the Centre of the Mind : exhibition essay for What Lays Beneath, a retrospective by Leonard
Jubenville; Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario
2022 - Blood Ties: exhibition essay; ARTspace
2019 - Exploration of my mind's eye: exhibition essay; ARTspace
2016 - Offhand Re-Marks: exhibition essay; ARTspace
2014 - The Four Housewives of the Apocalypse: exhibition essay; Thames Art Gallery
2012 - Sacred and Profane: exhibition essay; Thames Art Gallery
2011 - The Exhibitchin’: exhibition essay; ARTspace
2011 - florafaunalogical: exhibition essay; ARTspace
Creative
Writing
(other)
2026 - Waves, and Grandad's Quiet Love: University of Prince Edward Island Arts Review, Vol. VX; Charlottetown
2025 - Airstream Dreams, and Unravelled and Respun: University
of Prince Edward Island Arts Review, Vol. XIV; Charlottetown
2020 - ˈtīnē Zine: companionship, by Danielle Coleman; Chatham, ON. Photo images Cat and Dog in Love, Smokin'Suzy,
Instagram Snowman and poem, "The Coat".
Image (left) : Cat and Dog in Love (2022); UPEI Arts Review, Vol. XIV