With a preoccupation in things that are ambiguously formless, intangible and inarticulable, Welsh based artist Laura Edmunds will work in residence in the Cool Change project space to explore the potential for a vocal work that uses a series of abstracted score-like drawings as music notation. Exploring the mouth as a liminal point between the idea of self and the outside world, Edmunds is currently working with members of the Threshold Choir of West Wales who specialise in deathbed singing. During this residency, she will research circle breathing and the idea of an interconnectedness of bodies through sound – particularly the voice – to affect and alter atmospheric conditions. Working with the textures, volumes and densities of voice, there are parallels to be made between these and drawing. Edmunds is interested in abstracting the choir structure to its purest element – communal voice. Edmunds will explore the lamenting reverie; ritualistic and with spiritual undertones, whilst calling to something obscure which balances precariously between being felt but not held – a sense of unity through voice, moving beyond oneself, of vocal osmosis. Laura Edmunds will be working in residence 9-20 August, with an audio piece presented in the space for the remainder of the exhibition period 3-25 August. 

Laura Edmunds is currently based in Cardiff, after having lived in England and Australia. Laura’s work focuses on the body, loss, disappearance and things without edges. Opposing (and seemingly conflicting) points of concern are the conversations between material/immaterial and visible/invisible – manifesting itself as sound, print, drawing and moving image. Recent projects include A Soft Introduction at Ocean Studios, Plymouth (supported by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts), Liminal Structures at TEN, Cardiff and City Stories at Mission Gallery, Swansea.