16:9 is a billboard attached to the yard-side of Kingsgate Workshops. It's visible from the street and from Kilburn Grange Park. Kingsgate Project Space commissions new works from emerging and established artists specially for this site.
In Laura Wormell's work The Weight of Hope, made specifically for the 16:9 billboard, posed human figures form letters, creating a dialogue between the body as image and the letter as symbol. The work explores the semiotic relationship between imagery and text, examining how letters, as abstract representations of language, can function through the physicality of figurative painting. By merging symbols and imagery, the painting investigates how meaning is constructed and conveyed, and the relationship between what is seen and what is read.
Laura Wormell (b.1987, London), is a London based artist who completed a BA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2010 followed by two years at the Turps Studio Programme 2019-21. Wormell’s selected exhibitions include: Our Thin Heir, The Mills Centre Gallery, London, (2025) - I Am Your Creature (solo), Asylum Studios, Suffolk, (2024) - Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, UK (2024) - Compost, Terrace Gallery, London, (2024) - Marsupium, ASC Gallery, London (2023), - To The Birds & Man Digging, touring, St Leonards & Exeter Phoenix Gallery (2023) - Twenty Nineteen curated by Neil Zakiewicz, Campbell Works (2023) - Curation of I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On at Room Share 2, London (2022) - Your Foot in my Face and Other Tectonic Strategies, Kingsgate Project Space, London (2021) - In The Manner of Smoke, Alice Black Gallery, London (2018) - Lexis Over Land, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden Gallery, Penzance (2017). Laura Wormell is currently a mentor at Turps Art School and a member of audio/visual recording project in a skull.
