Laurence Noga

Biography

Laurence Noga is an artist curator and writer. My research explores Geometry, Systems, Collage, and Assemblage. Born in London, attended Wimbledon School of Art in 1981 – 4, Byam Shaw (Central St Martins) 1990 -1.


Laurence Noga’s Paintings, mixed media, collaged and painted constructions are low reliefs recalling works from the 1920s such as Kurt Schwitters’ (Merz 1925 1 Relief Blue Square 1925) . Noga constructs and assembles imperfect geometries. They have a complexity of colour and compositions. An eclectic inter-connectivity of the found and painted. These, ‘mixed media’ works have an open–ended language of shape, colour and surface, that play with aesthetics’ of balance and imbalance, creating a kind of industrialised and personal memory scape. Building an approach to the symbolic and the formal. Portals to other times. Utilising abandoned or found objects in his father’s garage, to help make the choices of colour and structure.Hundreds of packets, washers, door- knobs, sheet music, menus, wood shapes, or tools. The choice of colour and structure often develops from his childhood memory. Left sitting in smoky jazz clubs listening to his mother sing. Or visiting his father’s restaurants such as Le Caprice. Noga is drawn towards the intangible and intimate nature between painting, collage, and assemblage, exploring and utilizing unexpected combinations of multi-level colour and surface construction. Physical processes fluctuate between instinctive collisions of geometry and the unpredictability/predictability of colour relationships.

Shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2018. He belongs to the APT community of artists in South London. Recent Exibitions: 2026 The Shape of Time Laurence Noga Sharon Hall, Vivienne Roberts Projects London, The Fold Of Time MoorHouse Gallery London, 2025 Small is Beautiful Flowers Gallery London, Postcards for Seyoisfjoro Icelandic Embassy London, Fuse White Conduit Projects Laurence Noga Sato Sugamoto. Wave Colour Turbulence Tension gallery 2024 Small is Beautiful – Flowers Gallery, Extempore 24 Tension Gallery, ‘Chromascopic’ Curated with Ben Gooding APT Gallery London,Carnevale Vivienne Roberts Projects London, 2023 An exhibition of small things White Conduit Projects London.