Laura Dzelzytė
"Through an original form, Laura examines and connects a lost reality and the psychological condition of the present." Arts Biweekly
"There is a deep atmosphere in the work and technique is incredible” Dr. Kamini Vellodi
Short Bio
Laura Dzelzytė is a British–Lithuanian multidisciplinary artist based in London. She studied at the University of Cambridge and received an MA in Painting, with a scholarship, from the Royal College of Art in 2025.
Working across sculpture, painting, installation, drawing and publishing, Dzelzytė explores how objects carry cultural memory and how inherited narratives continue to shape contemporary life. Through the material language of wax, she reimagines culturally significant objects, architectural forms and religious iconography, creating encounters between history and the present. Her practice investigates migration, home, women's knowledge systems, memory and power, drawing on anthropology, philosophy and material research to make ideas tangible through sensory experience.
Alongside her sculptural practice, Dzelzytė develops painting, writing and collaborative research projects that examine the relationship between image, reproduction and cultural identity. Her works have explored subjects ranging from fertility and consumer culture to heritage, domesticity and the politics of preservation. She is currently developing Philosophy of Home, a long-term artistic research project in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Dzongkha Development in Bhutan, exploring domestic architecture as a living repository of cultural knowledge.
Before dedicating herself fully to art, Dzelzytė developed the sustainability innovation Soft Square (and a Triangle), recognised by WWD as "one to watch" in 2020. In 2025, together with Ryan Gander, she relaunched and edited the Royal College of Art's historic journal ARK as a multilingual conceptual publication and participatory exhibition, now held in the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her writing includes essays, reviews and conversations with leading artists, curators and writers.
In 2026, Dzelzytė's work is presented in exhibitions across the UK and Europe, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Young Masters exhibition Her Court at the Wimbledon Museum, Birds of Passage at the Museum of Contemporary Art Matino and Lecce in Italy, and a forthcoming presentation at the Beelden aan Zee Museum in the Netherlands.