Creative Lives 8th March – Layla Khoo

The School of Art and Design Creative Lives’ presentations highlight how creative graduates across the field of art and design work, live and thrive in the arts and creative industries. These artists will be speaking about their career journey and projects they are currently involved with.

The talks are open to all students and staff in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, and the general public. There’s no need to book individual places, just come along on the day. The talks will run every Tuesday 4.00-5.00pm from 1st February to 5th April 2022.

Tuesday 8th March – Layla Khoo

Layla is a multimedia 3D artist, specialising in ceramics and site-specific installations. Her work is responsive – responding to ideas, events, or collections of objects. Layla’s work develops from this initial response, considering how this can be represented in a contemporary way within the context of her material practice. She chooses to create work in ceramic for its broad range of historical connotations, from everyday tableware to satire and sculpture.

Layla has previously worked with collections within the National Trust, independent museums, with diverse communities and created permanent sculpture for the Forestry Commission. She is currently working on a new experimental body of more personal work supported by an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant and working on a community and heritage inspired residency in Middlesbrough supported by Historic England. Layla is also a director of a small collection of artist studio spaces in North Yorkshire and is a director and founder of Ryedale Open Studios.

Please join us for this session via this Teams link.

More details about this 10 week programme of speakers and dates are available online.