Laurence Dubé-Rushby has 28 years of experience delivering art projects and consultations in social and educational contexts, with a strong focus on creating opportunities for young people to engage with the Arts, in and out of education. She creates installations and thought-provoking performances which reflect the energy of physical, emotional, personal and social transformation.

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Laurence's work invites audiences to explore cultural, personal, and local identities, examining how artistic disruption may foster agency within contemporary educational, social, political, and cultural landscapes.​ Her artistic practice has evolved from craft, textiles, and painting to mixed-media installations and performance, often shaped through collective participation. Her work seamlessly blends aesthetics with public engagement, embodying a socially constructed approach to knowledge.

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As a council member of the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD), she is a passionate advocate for the transformative power of the arts.

 

This commitment formed the basis of her PhD research study in Creative Pedagogies, which investigated the pedagogical role and potential of live art within the current landscape of secondary education.

 

In her words:

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Drawing from my research study in Creative Pedagogies, I am now ready to return to a tactile engagement with materials as a reflective process. My artistic practice is increasingly concerned with unmaking—not as an act of destruction, but as a methodology that resists the dominant narratives of capitalism, which equate progress with accumulation, productivity, and overconsumption. The concept of making-unmaking, draws from post-materialism, post-human and more-than-human theories, and Deleuzian concepts of becoming. My interest lies in relational practices that blur the boundaries between subject and object, self and environment, human and non-human, and physical and conceptual boundaries.