Laura Oldfield Ford (b.1973) studied for a BA at the Slade School of Art, then went on to do a Master's degree in painting at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2007. Originally from Halifax, she has lived for some years in the area around the Lower Lea Valley in East London.
Since graduation, Oldfield Ford has been working on an ongoing project which aims to record the impact of regeneration on urban areas. She has made many drawings documenting condemned tower blocks, waste ground, pylons, desolate shopping precincts, industrial estates, canals, concrete bridges and graffiti. Her carefully detailed drawings are topographical records of dispossessed and otherwise ignored areas.
Although most of Oldfield Ford's drawings focus on London, this drawing is a composite view of various different places including wreckage in Mumbai.
