Laura Onions is using her Gallery residency to explore the processes of contact, transference and pressure in her printmaking practice, and how these physical actions relate and correspond to wider personal, social and environmental landscapes, including the growing pressure of the climate emergency. The Artists’ Studio residency is scheduled for 15 September–6 December 2026.
Onions approaches printmaking as a way of thinking, gathering and creating relationships between people, places and histories.
Informed by feminist ways of learning and archival material, she takes these ideas beyond the studio, using printmaking as a tool for participation, dialogue and community-building.
Her recent work has focused on local ecologies and exploring our interconnectedness with nature. Onions is based in Wolverhampton and the Black Country and is involved with arts, nature and culture networks in the West Midlands.
Recent projects include Wild Walsall with the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust in 2025–26; ‘Start the Press!’ at Ikon Gallery in 2024; the Constellations Cohort with Up Projects in 2023–24; the ongoing roving screen-printing project ‘Gathering Press’, begun in 2022; Multistory’s ongoing ‘Neighbourhood Ecologies’ programme, with which she has worked since 2024; and CoLab Dudley’s ‘Bioregional Learning Network’, where she has worked since 2025.
