Laura Grimm (she/her) is a Rotterdam based sculptor. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy’s Textiles Department in 2016. Since then, she has been making large, abstract sculptures using a variety of tactile materials. In 2023 she first started working with sheep’s wool from local shepherds. This has been her material of choice ever since.

Though the forms of her sculptures are deliberately mysterious, the materials remain traceable and direct. The raw materials and processing methods of objects in our daily lives are often invisible. Due to her education, where raw fibres were key, Grimm has a special connection with these types of invisible processes. That is why her sculptures are made using wool directly from sheep in Rotterdam. Grimm attends the shearing after which she washes the wool in her studio, cards it and colours it with dye baths made from flowers and plants. These hand-prepped materials are full of energy and love, all of which are transferred on into her sculptures.

We are in a liminal phase and will soon have to reassess our relationship with the earth. How this new relationship will manifest, is still unclear. That is why Grimm’s sculptures have strong, yet non-specific forms that people can give their own meaning to. With these free forms made of traceable materials, Grimm wants to encourage people to develop new perspectives and attitudes towards the natural world and apply them for a better future.

Laura lives and works in Rotterdam. She set up her own studio in Hillegersberg and now uses this large former garage as her workspace.