Laurie Addis is a painter and weaver. Her interests are in digital Jacquard weaving and the process of subverting making by repetition. In her current work, fragments of flower imagery, re-workings of Weaver's Guild designs, non-repeating mathematical systems and systematic dyeing errors are literally woven into an optical mix.
Laurie was born in Northern Ireland. After graduation from Queens University Belfast with a degree in English, she relocated to England to work for several years as an archaeological ceramics researcher and illustrator at Durham University. She was awarded a B.A. (Hons.) painting, Newcastle polytechnic, 1983, and a M.A. painting, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, 1986. Laurie relocated to the United States in 1990s. She held the full-time Visiting Artist position at Syracuse University, New York, from 1991-2, returning to England to teach painting full-time at Bradford College of Art and Design, 1992-6. She has also lived and worked in St. Louis, MO, and Newark, NJ before moving to Kent, OH, where she took the opportunity to study weaving with Janice Lessman-Moss. Laurie Addis's weavings have been exhibited in the U.S and in Europe. Her first solo exhibit of textiles was at Gallery 138, Kent, in 2003. In 2005 she participated in Northern Fiber 6: (wo)man & technology, at Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, and The CAT show: Computer Aided Textiles at Hillsdale College, Michigan. She currently teaches drawing part-time at Kent State University, Ohio.