Meet the Art Warrior Jurors - Laura Butler

Laura Butler (Canadian) is an interdisciplinary artist currently pursuing an Undergraduate Degree in Visual Arts with Honors, and a certificate in Museum and Curatorial Studies. Her recent work uses a combination of scientific research and pseudo-scientific stories to examine plant intelligence and sentience. She also studies the harmful effects of greenhouses on the environment and the benefits to caring for a real plant versus the ease and certainty of buying an artificial plant. Laura works in both acrylic paint and linocut printmaking because they each offer the use of solid blocks of colour to create imagery. She has received various scholarships in her undergraduate degree including the Bess A. Hewitt Scholarship in Visual Arts in 2019, the Gray Creative Arts Award in Visual Arts in 2019, and the Mackie Cryderman Award for Excellence in Visual Arts. She is currently the Assistant Curator at the Kawartha Art Gallery in Lindsay, Ontario.