Biography and Artist Statement
Maine artist, Laura Fuller lives and works in Portland, Maine. Born in 1964, Laura grew up in Bath, Maine. She has also lived in Paris, France, where she attended Sorbonne University, studying art history and French. She later studied theater history in Maine and art at Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art).
Laura
has
been
working
in
stained
glass
seventeen
years.
She
began
putting
three-dimensional
objects
in
her
panels
while
still
in
school.
When
discouraged
by
her
instructor
from
this
innovative
technique,
she
committed
to
the
craft
of
incorporating
found
objects
into
her
complex
glass
pieces.
Each
unique
relief
expresses
not
only
her
story,
but
also
that
of
the
objects
incorporated
within.
For
Laura,
each
object
is
a
reflection
of
the
complex
narrative
of
life--
past,
present
and
future:
"Life is change. That is the only reliable certainty. It is constantly and continually progressing and altering. Unexpected and uncertain in outcome, it is certain in process.
Objects are our representatives. 'Living' solid, fruitful, domestic, useful lives: indepently functional. These objects, having given 2 to 200 years of faithful service, became hidden. In drawers, closets, dumps, underground, and in the ocean --waiting.
Now newly born, part of a different whole. Suspended to be gazed at, in reverence. In honor of their, and our, past lives. The beauty is in the years of touch as marked by many hands. The experiences portrayed trigger memories, of events lived and imagined. And of what will become."
Laura was a founding owner of the Hay Gallery in Portland, Maine and now has the Laura Fuller Glass Design Studio and Gallery on Munjoy Hill in Portland.
"We are constantly shedding our skin. We never stop growing and learning. Change is the only constant. Beauty is in the years of touch as marked by many hands."
