Laurence Dubé-Rushby's work invites audiences to explore cultural, personal, and local identities, examining how disruption can 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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In her words:

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I have worked as a freelance artist and consultant in educational and community settings for 28 years, with a strong focus on creating opportunities for young people to engage with the Arts, in and out of education. I am a passionate advocate for the Arts as a powerful tool for learning and transforming the world. This commitment formed the basis of my PhD research in Creative Pedagogies, supported by a studentship from Arts University Bournemouth and University of the Arts London. My research has investigated the pedagogical role and potential of live art within the current landscape of secondary education.

 

Drawing from my PhD research in Creative Pedagogies and a turn toward performance-based work, I am now ready to return to a tactile engagement with materials as a reflective process. 

 

My 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, physical and conceptual boundaries.