Laura Onions
she/her
Laura is an artist and educator. She has a print making practice and a roving screen printing project Gathering Press.
Laura came into our network in 2024 as a Stories of Place co-creator. In spring 2025 she joined a collective of creatives we convened, and led a short reflective workshop series delving into Dudley’s past and present climate activism. Walking and mapping were translated into art through relief printmaking.
In 2026 Laura will be in residence with the Gathering Press at CoLab Dudley, exploring how narratives of place may be translated through making and thinking together. The residency interweaves with work CoLab Dudley is convening around counter-mapping, bioregioning, and re-imagining our relationships with the land. As a point of enquiry, the residency will consider the shape of commoning in our current political, social, environmental climates and the role of printmaking in these endeavours.
Role cards currently held by Laura
- Collective Imagination Steward
- Regenerative Futures Storyteller
Laura is in residence with the Gathering Press at CoLab Dudley for 2 days a month (10am-2pm) between February and May 2026
In relationship with place
Wrens Nest Nature Reserve is a place Laura visits often. She says...
Since moving to Dudley in 2020, I have returned repeatedly to Wrens Nest and always feel comfortable there. I can visualise the different paths that can be taken and how the seasons play out. It is the place that initiated my curiosity into the relationship between what lies above and below ground and how we and our more-than-human-kin of past and present move through the landscape. It has led me into the waters of the canal network, to see the subterranean singing cavern and then to Dudley archives, full of fossils and stories of shifting climates.
Further south, recent visits to Portway Hill with Holly have expanded this affinity, through seasonal noticings and ramblings.
CoLab Dudley is part of this constellation of returning, enabling connections to be drawn between these experiences towards deeper relationships between people and place.
