Lesley
Guy is an artist
and writer based in Sheffield, UK. She is also a member of
Host Artist's Group. As a writer Lesley has contributed to
a number of publications including the Metro as a regular
contemporary arts correspondent and is regularly
commissioned by Sheffield Contemporary Arts Forum to
produce introductory texts for their Gallery Crawls.
Her practice is experimental and multi-disciplinary, often
driven by an interest in contradiction or paradox. It is an
approach which is concerned with mythos;
a way of knowing that is intuitive and basic. She often
constructs scenarios or actions that manipulate the 'real'
or recognizable. Inspiration is drawn from dreams,
literature, mythology and cinema. She has just completed
the drawing project ‘Baby Animals’, elements of which were
exhibited at the Vault Gallery in Lancaster and g39 in
Cardiff. Pages from a child’s colouring-in book were added
to, negated and redesigned in an aesthetic battle between
contingency and control.