Laurel Woodcock is based in Toronto. She studied at Concordia University in Montreal, received her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax, and now teaches as an associate professor in the extended media department at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Her work has been exhibited in a variety of solo exhibitions across Canada, and she has participated in several group exhibitions abroad, at Musee de Louviers, Paris and Galapagos Art Centre, Brooklyn. In her endeavor to investigate the elastic nature of language and conflate the commercial world with the heritage of ephemeral practices, her recent works involve commercial forms, such as neon signs, airplane banners and promotional balloons.