Sheffield Hallam MA Contemporary Fine Art Fundraiser.

All ages and abilities welcome!
Astonish our panel of international colouring-in experts with your colouring or shading skills. Thwart expectations by going over the lines! Enjoy yourself for once!
Bring your entries to the Bloc Projects gallery (71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield), on Wednesday the 19th of May between 12 and 7.30pm. All entries will be exhibited and the winners will be announced at 8pm.
Visit the blog for more info.

Lesley has donated a drawing to be auctioned. click here to find out more.

If... (Baby Animals), has been reviewed by Ben Bryant for BUZZ Magazine.

If… Lesley Guy
g39, Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff
Until Sat 20 Feb
Consisting of 24 illustrations made on paper pulled from a children’s colouring book, and stuck to the wall with single pieces of Blu-Tack, Lesley’s Guy’s Baby Animals possesses a naivety that jars nicely with its occasionally ominous content.
Taking pages from an animal colouring-in book and overlaying them with dense pen and ink drawings, Guy’s approach to image making is, she says, concerned with “mythos; a way of knowing that is intuitive and basic.” That’s not to say what she’s doing is all unstructured automatic writing, however. The defamiliarisation she enacts on the page is measured and purposeful, and the exhibition seems to showcase her progression through the process, from Chimps (Without Irony), which has no real embellishment whatsoever, through to Wild Boar (Belle et la Bete), which has gothic touches and bears barely any resemblance to its original.
The best of it is somewhere in between. Such pieces are ambiguous, unsettling and indebted to Gestalt psychology, as in Elephants (Now Try These), Badgers (The Manatou) and Orangutan (The Invisible Man) which both yield a number of different interpretations. These are also the darker pieces in the set, retaining parts of the children’s book, and exaggerating the implied malevolence of her drawing.
The motifs that recur throughout her work seem to reflect these attempts to uncover new ways of seeing: there are eyes all over her work. Images are mirrored and perspectives are distorted. In one piece, the entire page has been covered with a drawing of a scuba diver finding buried treasure.
It’s a striking series by an artist searching for new perspectives and, in the process, attempting to create a kind of symbiosis between the overlaid sketch and the original page.

Lesley will be exhibiting the (almost) entire series of the Baby Animals drawings at g39 in Cardiff. The if.. programme is an experimental platform for artists who want to exhibit something new, previously unseen or untested. The show runs from the 3rd until the 20th of February.

Lesley will be exhibiting new work in the group show Pleasurewood Thrills! Click here to visit the Blog page.

‘Pleasurewood Thrills!’ is an interim show of MA Contemporary fine art students. The exhibition brings together a diversity of artistic practice, ranging from video, text-based, photographic and sculpture. Starting with familiar or overlooked aspects of everyday life all six artists express a desire to connect with and reinterpret the world around them. The resulting work is a journey into the quotidian, the nostalgic, the kitsch and the magical.

Private view Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Time:
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
The Workstation, Brown St, Sheffield

Follow Lesley's experimental texts on contemporary art as part of The Art Writers Blog on http://theartwriters.wordpress.com/

Lesley is now on the Axis web directory, click here to see her profile page.

Lesley Guy was asked to select the Axis artist of the month for September, she chose sound artist Neil Webb. 
 

On Tuesday the 16th of June Lesley will be giving a talk to the Sheffield branch of the Women's Institute about her work.

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Host will be giving a talk at the Vane Gallery in Newcastle on Friday the 15th May as a precursor to the audio exhibition and CD launch of Host 9 : Otherliness on the 16th