Alice Leach

About the artist

Alice Leach
Alice Leach

Painter, Printmaker

Totnes
Devon
United Kingdom

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Current Exhibitions

10/07/2010  Mr & Mrs Basic - the bowie gallery, Totnes
02/10/2009  The One That Got Away - Hepsibah Gallery, London
02/07/2009  Just a Line - the bowie gallery, Totnes
22/04/2009  The Space in Between - Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
04/03/2008  Excerpts from a Diary - The Flavel, Dartmouth

Galleries

Hepsibah Gallery, London, W6

Statement

My work is concerned with emotion and thought, provoking if need be, in an attempt to understand the frailty of existence. The basis of my practice is shaped by my visual diary. I update it daily – a random, unpredictable record of the day’s events, left raw and unfinished. I embrace various materials and techniques including sculpture.

I do not try to control or restrain my process of working. I have no desire for perfection or neatness. I prefer an unvarnished approach where things are allowed to develop. Apparent inaccuracies become embedded in the work much as they do in life. I cannot control emotions, they shift and vacillate and my work reflects the constant shift in my consciousness. If I have a pattern then it would be a desire to explore the rawer emotions, the ones we are afraid of and want to hide from. Inevitably they are noisier, more insistent, yet they are intriguing. Why do we indulge our dark sides with myths of fear and discontent? Why does loneliness betray us into deeds we can ponder over at length? I do not attempt to answer these questions anymore than any others that arise in my work, it is enough simply to engage with the chaotic fray of emotions of life.

Biography

1968
Born in London
Lives and works in Devon
Education - Dartington Hall School, Devon
1987
Foundation at Chelsea School of Art, London
1990 -1993
First Class Degree at City & Guilds of London Art School
1993
Executive Committee Prize for outstanding work, City & Guilds of London Art School

"Alice Leach received a First Class degree from City & Guilds of London Art School in 1993, but only found the confidence to be a full-time painter in her late twenties. However, it wasn’t until she was forced to face the inherent conflict of being an artist and a single mother a few years ago, that she found her niche. Combining drawing, painting and the spoken word, she started a visual diary to which she has since added individual works of art depicting her most intimate, private and uncensored thoughts and feelings on an almost daily basis. Her life-long fascination with the basic, raw and immediate approach of Dubuffet, Cy Twombly and Canadian Inuit artists becomes evident in this tremendous and ever-growing body of work, which exposes the fragility of the everyday and inspires/suggests a different, more vicarious view of life. " Joy Collective

Exhibition History

1995  'Art for Youth' Royal College of Art, London
1996  St. Peter's Hall, Portobello, London
1997  'Not the RA' Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London
1997  Kilvert Gallery, Wales
1998  Gallery 27, Cork Street, London
1998  'Affordable Art Exhibition', Connaught Brown, London
1999  199 Hammersmith Grove, London
1999  The Chapel Gallery, Saltram House, Devon
2004  Summer Exhibition, The Great Barn, Higher Ashton, Devon
2005  Summer Exhibition, The Great Barn, Higher Ashton, Devon
2006  Small Originals, Ashburton, Devon
2007  Hepsibah Gallery, London
2007  Open Studio, Devon
2007  Chelsea Arts Club, London
2008  The Flavel Centre, Dartmouth, Devon
2008  Joy Collective, live performance Exeter, Devon
2008  istorm Modern, Exeter, Devon
2008  'Off the Peg', Dartington Printmakers, Devon
2009  'The Space in Between', Phoenix Art Centre, Exeter, Devon
2009  'Just a Line', The Bowie Gallery,Totnes, Devon
2009  'In Triplicate' Devon Open Studios, Devon
2009  'The One That Got Away' Hepsibah Gallery, London
2009  'Off The Peg' Dartington Printmakers, Dartington, Devon
2010  'Online' Exhibition, Red Propeller Gallery, Devon
2010  'Mr & Mrs Basic', The Bowie Gallery, Totnes, Devon
 
 

 

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