Alastair Laas is a multidisciplinary artist whose work contemplates modes of labour and commercial systems. He creates sculptural worlds that explore the tension between those who build culture and those who profit from it. Blending storytelling and material intervention, Laas explores what remains of the human spirit in a world engineered for output.
Driven by the belief that art should re-interrupt systems of dominance and awaken care and resistance, his critique fuels imagination, and a practice that transforms overlooked spaces and discarded materials into speculative sites of renewal.
His sculptural installations, performances, and public interventions ask: what happens when we reclaim space, not for profit, but for preserving human spirit.
Often operating outside traditional gallery settings, Alastair's work engages communities through material storytelling and myth-making, inviting viewers to question the systems they live within. From roadside plaques to corporate parodies, his interventions explore how power hides in aesthetics—and how we might dismantle it with tenderness and wit.
Studio Laas collaborates across disciplines to develop immersive installations, performances, and socially engaged works. Open to new challenges, commissions, and partnerships.
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Exhibitions include Taking Time, Flatland Projects, 2025; The Digital Quilt, Art In Flux at INDEXprojects 2020; Dear My Little Prince, KMCA, 2018+19; Aesthetica Art Prize 2019; (H)AKT—Art & Haktivism, Ugly Duck 2018; Overpr!nt, Le Centre de la Gravure, 2018; Metaphors & Spatiality, Sichuan University & Wuhouci Gallery, 2017-18; Studio Complex, Tate Modern, 2017-18.
Residencies include Arebyte Gallery, 2018, and Flatland Projects x De La Warr Pavilion, 2025. Awards and recognition include the David Ward International Award for Innovation, ArtConnect's ‘Artist to Watch’ (2022), Aesthetica Top 100 (2019), and shortlists for the Churchill Fellowship (2025), Artquest SEED Award, and Chiara Williams Solo Award.
Expertise – Context-specific design, consultancy & conceptual art that encourages community skills-sharing and support on projects that combine film, moving-image, editing, animation, editorial, typographic, and digital design for artists, arts organisations and charities for events, marketing, networking, and campaign development.
Clients – Arnolfini Museum, Capa First Response, Phe Davies, Google, CeriHand, Jac Passmore, Ubosift, Susannah Pal, Kemistry, Pret, Diageo, Red Bull, Mercedes, Coca-Cola, Sky, Salesforce, ITV, Ch4, Al Jazeera, Lejay Lagoute, Qatar Petroleum, Mohamed Harisani Architects, CIMA, BBC, Sybarite, HSBC, Heineken.
Key documents for curators, collaborators and commissioners for a detailed breakdown.
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