Laura Norder
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Laura Norder (aka Laura Oldfield-Ford) is an English artist influenced by anarchism and the DIY punk ethic.
Her pseudonym is taken from the Thatcherite pronunciation of "law and order".
Originally from Yorkshire she studied at the Slade School of Art and contributed paintings to the We Get Restless exhibition.
While she is most known for her oil paintings she also produces writings and drawings for zines. In 2005 she started a zine/comic called Savage Messiah which incorporates her drawings, photographs and writings as hypergraphics and psychogeographical reports on London where she lives and works.
Since 2005 readers and folllowers of the Savage Messiah cult have been involved in various altercations with the police and right wing groups, including front groups of the British Democrats including Crays Hill Residents Association in Essex as well as in East London. This has also involved ex members of the West Essex Zapatista and other psychogeographical groups of the area. Several ASBOs have been issued and the Red caps of the British Army was called in to enforce these ASBOs in Royston where fighting broke out at the site of a Templar cave under the high street there.[1]