Carol Laidler is an interdisciplinary artist based in Bristol. Her practice explores the intersection of writing, sound and image with a focus on memory, perception and entanglement with the more-than-human.

In her installations and writings she delves into the tensions between an inner personal space and the multiple voices that constitute the outer world. By weaving together ideas and words, both from and with others, she challenges notions of the single narrative and seeks to highlight possibilities of knowledge within conversation and connection.

Recent Projects include:

Ghost in the Machine, interdisciplinary performance installation with Lily McLeish, Navid Razavi, KultureKubus, Collumina V, Cologne Light Art Festival, (2025); Would I have been still would I have asked you? Performance talk with Dolores Steinman (2025); Invocation: the shape of things, exhibition and book, with Genie Poretzky-Lee, Anna Walker and Jo Milne, Blue Lotus Foundation, London (2025); In your shell like, sound installation with Pat Jamieson, for Coastal Currents, Bexhill-on-Sea (2023); Observation Station, Bexhill-on-Sea, (2022,2023); Conversation, exchange and installation with Kamina Walton, (2021-2023); In Free Fall, sculpture and sound installation, in collaboration with Huma Mulji, David Alesworth, Eilis Kirby, Sarah, Rhys, Centre of Gravity, Gardiner Haskins, Bristol (2020); Every Few Hours Someone Cries, sound installation; Glenside Hospital Museum, with alldaybreakfast (2020); Walking-Not-Walking, film and performance talk with Davina Kirkpatrick, selected for Flat Pack Film Festival, Birmingham (2020); Tide Turns, film (2018); | Bank | performance talk with Carolyn Black, both presented at Liquidscapes, Dartington Hall (2018); The Bulletins of Miscellaneous Information, sound installation with David Alesworth in Lawrence Garden, Lahore Biennial (2018); Soundings, sound and sculptural installation, with alldaybreakfast and Edson Burton, St Mary Redcliffe church (2017/18); Unlocked, site-specific promenade performance at Glenside Hospital Museum, written and produced by alldaybreakfast with Lily McLeish, (2017).