Laura Deakin was born in Melbourne in 1979. In 2003, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours at Monash University, Melbourne in Gold & Silversmithing. In 2010, she was awarded her Masters from Akademie der Bildenden Künste (The Academy of Fine Art) in Munich.
Since the completion of her undergraduate studies, Deakin's work has received numerous awards, grants and stipends. She has been accepted into the prestigious exhibition 'Schmuck' on five occasions with five separate series of work, including for her more recent body of work, ‘Foundina’.
Deakin's work has toured extensively in both local and international exhibitions. Her work can be seen in permanent collections at The Museum of Modern Art & Design in Munich, Gallery Wittenbrink in Munich, Gallery Marzee in The Netherlands, Gallery O in Seoul, The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and Melbourne Museum.
She currently lives and works in Melbourne/Naarm.
It's taken me a long time, but I feel that now I can say "I am a maker"