Laurence Noga Use The New, 2025

London-based Laurence Noga (b. 1961) is an artist, curator and writer. He graduated from Byam Shaw, Central St Martins 1991. He was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2018 and exhibits widely. Noga lectures for the University of the Arts London and belongs to the APT community of artists in South London. 

Noga's approach explores a personal iconography and phenomenology. Using found objects in his father's garage, such as washers or sheet music, help make the choices of colour and structure (his father collected hundreds of packets, washers, door- knobs, sheet music, menus, wood shapes, or tools). The choice of colour and structure often comes from his memory of his childhood - left sitting in smoky jazz clubs listening to his mum sing, or visits to his dad's work, restaurants such as Le Caprice.

Noga is drawn towards the intangible and intimate nature between painting, collage, and assemblage, exploring and utilizing unexpected combinations of multi-level colour and surface construction. Physical processes fluctuate between instinctive decisions (often with collage) collisions of geometry and the unpredictability/predictability of colour relationships.