Lesley
Guy is an artist
and writer based in Sheffield, UK and currently an MA
student at Sheffield Hallam University. 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 has
recently been 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. Pages from a
child’s colouring-in book were added to, negated and
redesigned in an aesthetic battle between contingency and
control. She is currently collecting images of random,
accidental paint spillages from around the city and
wondering what to do with them.