Laura Soon (b.1973) is a Singapore born artist, with a Masters of Arts in Fine Art from LASALLE College Of The Arts. She is also formally trained in Arts Education through the National Institute of Education, graduated with a distinction and has taught in Mayflower Secondary School for 4 years.

Soon is also the recipient of several art grants from the National Arts Council to realise art projects and exhibitions both locally and overseas. She is one of the founding member of the contemporary art space - Plastique Kinetic Worms and has from 2004 onwards help in managing and coordinating arts program at the gallery.

Soon currently a part-time lecturer with LASALLE College Of The Arts has been active in exhibiting in groups and solo exhibitions both locally and overseas, creating 2 dimensional tactile installation works that are made up of combinations of text, and personal iconography.

Art therapy has been my interest for sometime now, that is the motivation with which I am looking at psychology and how it elevates the repetitive nature of some routine gestures into grey areas of self, identity, gender and possibly addressing the thin line that divides art from life and life from art.

My ‘skin series’ aim to manifest a form of therapeutic effect or affect through these investigations of repetitive imagery. This is through the combination of microscopic images of pigmentation marks and spots obtained from my skin and the images captured mentioned earlier, which are then abstracted into mottled and unrecognizable patterns in my artwork suggesting or exploring relationships between human behaviour and psychology. This repetition is endless: without beginning or a suggestion of an end.