Laurie Schram

Laurie Schram’s work revolves around themes of a socio-political nature and conceptualises status through objects. A relationship between the fictional and the non-fictional is an important theme. Schram graduated from the Royal College of Art with work mainly focused on currency. Playing with money as a material is a means to examine its power and the promise it bears. Each bill or coin is an expression of utopia in itself, a spell we are under collectively. Altering its physical manifestation and adjusting the narrative teases the rigidity of the game. 

From 2013 to 2015, Schram collaborated with Inderjeet Sandhu under the name SCHRAM&SANDHU, producing a portfolio of fictional and semi-fictional brands that interrogated capitalism, aspiration and systems and structures of power and play. After nearly two decades in the UK, she returned to the Netherlands in 2015, where she founded Space Fantastic, a platform for collaborative and speculative practices.

In 2017, she co-founded Mother Makers, an initiative supporting artists navigating motherhood and creative practice. A 2019 retrospective titled Unperceived Existence at Gallery Shush reflected on a decade of work centred on currency and constructed value.

From 2020 to 2025, her focus shifted to education—exploring the overlap between teaching and artistic practice.

Her current body of work, SCHRAM2.0, is an alter ego and meta-artwork that reimagines an alternative life path centred on radical artistic freedom, identity, and techno-feminist critique. Through this figure, Schram explores what it means to construct a self, a career, and a mythology on one’s own terms.

”Silver Dollar” 2012 was purchased by the British Museum and other works are part of private collections such as Janet Street-Porters