Punk’s outcry “No future!” reverberates anew from Laura Oldfield Ford’s homepage, as one of her semi-self-portraits stares out at us, fuming, “I’ve looked into the future and I can’t find myself ANYWHERE.” Born in 1973, Laura found herself in Halifax, Yorkshire, far removed from punk’s first detonation of anger, anarchy and D.I.Y. aesthetics. “The England conjured up in my work is one of socio-political upheaval, the mayhem of squat culture, Brutalist architecture, anarcho-punk and sentimental pop tunes. Nostalgia becomes a form of revenge; if rebellion has been recuperated, Savage Messiah demands a return to more radical times.” http://www.paulgravett.com/index.php/articles/article/laura_oldfield_ford/