Between structure and decay, something else begins to form.
Laura Porter’s work exists in the in-between. Materials shift, evolve, and absorb time through touch and repetition.
Her sculptural pieces challenge ideas of productivity and permanence, offering a slower way of making that centres process, labour, and transformation.
Born in Lewisham and now working between North Devon and South London, Laura continues to build a practice that sits between art, material research, and cultural reflection.
Full film now available via CONCEPT.
Transformation through material, labour, and time.
Laura Porter’s practice begins with discarded clothing. Garments are broken down to their rawest forms and rebuilt into sculptural structures that hold memory, history, and trace.
Her work explores material transformation, sustainability in art, and the hidden labour behind what we wear and consume. Each piece sits between decay and renewal, questioning what is preserved and what is forgotten.
This is a process-led practice rooted in repetition, time, and physical making. A deliberate resistance to speed and automation.
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Inside the Creative World of fine artist Laura Porter.
A practice rooted in transformation, materiality, and the in-between.
Laura Porter is a UK-based contemporary artist working between North Devon and South London. Her work explores the space between material and memory, structure and decay, and the relationship between the human-made and the organic.
Working with discarded clothing, Laura deconstructs garments and rebuilds them into sculptural forms. Each piece carries traces of labour, consumption, and time, questioning how we assign value to materials and the processes behind them.
Through slow, tactile making, her work resists automation and efficiency, instead foregrounding touch, repetition, and embodied practice.
Watch the film and explore the full story via the link in bio.
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Inside the Creative World of Fine Artist Laura Porter.
A practice rooted in transformation, materiality, and the in-between.
Laura Porter’s work exists in the liminal spaces between material and memory, structure and decay, the human-made and the organic.
Born in Lewisham and now based between North Devon and South London, her practice is rooted in the transformation of materials, labour, and the ways we assign value to both. Working with discarded clothing, Laura breaks garments down to their rawest forms, reshaping them into sculptural structures that carry embedded histories of land, labour, consumption, and waste.
Through slow, physical processes that are repetitive, labour-intensive, and deliberately resistant to automation; her work challenges contemporary ideas of efficiency and productivity, instead foregrounding time, touch, and embodied making.
Her practice pushes at the boundaries of what is living and what is inert, what is ruin and what is renewal. In her hands, materials become something else, shifting, evolving, and absorbing time like a living organism, existing in the in-between, neither fixed nor forgotten.
Alongside her practice, Laura is the founding director and curator of Studio KIND., a contemporary art space in Braunton, Devon.
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Here’s a number to sit with for a second.
80% of creatives using AI report higher job satisfaction.
Not higher productivity. Not more income. Higher satisfaction.
That may be surprising but let’s think about why this could be the case. When you remove the friction from your process, you get more time in the work that actually matters to you. The part only you can do.
AI isn’t reducing creative work. For the people using it thoughtfully, it’s clearing the way back to it.
We talk a lot about what AI might take away. We don’t talk enough about what it might return to you. Time, focus, capacity, freedom.
The creative industries are in the middle of a genuine shift. Not a crisis. A transformation. And the creatives who will move through it well aren’t the ones sprinting toward every new tool or refusing to engage with any of them.
They’re the ones staying curious, staying informed, and making intentional decisions about what serves their practice.
What’s one part of your creative process that genuinely exhausts you or eats your time, and do you think AI could help with it, or would you rather that part stay human? Curious where people stand. Figures are from Slack Workforce Index 2025.
Let’s have an honest conversation about something we all see a lot in the creative community.
There’s a version of ‘protecting your art’ that’s actually just fear wearing a principled mask.
We have all felt it. When everything is moving fast and the narrative is relentless, stepping back and saying ‘this isn’t for me’ can feel like an act of integrity.
Sometimes it is, but sometimes maybe it’s not, and this is the harder question. Is it costing you reach, income, and relevance while someone else builds the audience that could have been yours.
Adobe’s data is clear: creatives who disengage from emerging tech risk being bypassed. Not because their work is worse. Because the system is shifting and they’re not in it.
The answer isn’t to sell out. It’s to stay aware. To decide consciously what you use, why you use it, and what you never let it touch.
That’s not compromise. That’s strategy, and strategy is how you protect the work for the long term.
Be honest: is there a tech tool or platform shift you’ve been avoiding and is it a genuine creative decision or something that feels more like fear?
The AI conversation in the creative world is exhausting. Not because it isn’t important, but because it keeps happening at two extremes. Either AI is going to end creativity as we know it, or it’s a magic productivity tool everyone should be sprinting toward.
Neither of those conversations is serving you.
Here’s what we know to be true: fear is highest among people who don’t yet understand the tools. That’s not resistance, it’s completely human. But it does suggest that the most powerful thing you can do right now isn’t take a side. It’s get informed.
63% of creatives who don’t use AI fear job loss. That number drops to 37% among those who do. Understanding, not ignoring, is what reduces the fear.
86% worry AI will devalue human work. What if we were to argue that the opposite risk is greater? That creatives who disengage will find the industry has moved on without them.
Your voice, your taste, your cultural perspective. Those things are irreplaceable. AI can’t origin your life. But it can help clear the path to your best ideas if you know how to use it. It can empower you in the business of creatively. It can help you build a business from your ideas without having to sell those ideas to someone else who knows how to build a business.
That’s the conversation we want us to be having.
Where do you honestly sit with AI right now? Curious and exploring, cautious but watching, actively avoiding, or already integrating it into your work? CONCEPTS online course - The Creative Entrepreneurs Guide To AI & Emerging Technology Launches next month. Sign up via the link in bio to be the first to hear when enrollment opens.
The Culturalist Meets: Arturo Obegero
On staying true to your path.
“Don’t be bothered by what is happening around you because everyone has their own path. And even though it’s hard, you just have to follow yours.”
A quiet reminder, in an industry that often moves too fast and looks too closely sideways, that creative work isn’t linear, and it isn’t universal.
There’s a discipline in staying with your own vision. In resisting comparison. In allowing your path to unfold at its own pace.
Watch the full documentary and read the editorial interview at concept.world
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The Culturalist Meets: Arturo Obegero
On redefining success.
“I think you have to ask yourself first—what is success to you? What do you really want? Because the dreams you had as a teenager… they might not be the life you actually want to live.”
A reflection on growth, self-definition, and the quiet shift that happens when you begin to build a life on your own terms.
Watch the full documentary and read the editorial interview at concept.world
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Inside the Creative World of Arturo Obegero
A practice shaped by poetry, place, and emotion.
Arturo Obegero’s work exists in a space between reality and imagination. Where clothing becomes language, and emotion becomes form.
Raised by the sea in northern Spain, his practice draws on memory, performance, and a deep sense of introspection. There’s a quiet intensity to it, an exploration of identity, feeling, and the inner worlds we carry.
This is not just fashion. It’s storytelling.
Full film and editorial interview available now at concept.world
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Inside the Creative World of Designer Arturo Obegero
A practice shaped by poetry, place, and emotion.
Arturo Obegero’s world feels like something remembered rather than constructed, soft at the edges, steeped in feeling.
Raised in Tapia de Casariego, a windswept fishing village in northern Spain, his work carries the rhythm of the ocean and the quiet melancholy of a place suspended between past and present. There’s a sense of escapism running through it—not as avoidance, but as intention. A way of reimagining reality through emotion, movement, and form.
A designer whose practice sits somewhere between performance and poetry, Arturo creates work that is as much about what is felt as what is seen.
Through The Culturalist, we step into his world, one shaped by memory, imagination, and the desire to build something beyond the everyday.
Watch the full film and read the editorial interview at concept.world
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If machines can make art, the question is no longer whether creativity has value. It’s who holds it.
For years, the story has been familiar: artists shape culture, and others find ways to scale it, distribute it, monetise it. The work is human. The systems around it, less so.
AI doesn’t erase that tension, it sharpens it.
As tools become more capable, the distinction shifts. Craft is no longer just execution, but judgement. Taste. Context. The accumulation of decisions that sit beneath the surface of the work. The things that cannot be automated, only developed over time.
And yet, without an understanding of the systems now shaping creative output, how they’re built, how they’re trained, how they generate and distribute value; there is a risk that this next chapter follows a familiar pattern.
That the work evolves. But ownership doesn’t.
This course sits in that space.
Not as a technical manual, but as a framework. A way of understanding AI in relation to creative practice, authorship, and business. A way of engaging with these tools critically, ethically, and with intention.
The future of creative work isn’t just about what you make.
It’s about how you position it within the systems that surround it.
AI & Emerging Technologies For The Creative Entrepreneur — Sign up to be the first to know when the course launches. Link in Bio.
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