Alice Leach

Biography

Exhibitions - Gallery Guide Links
2008 Mar 4		Excerpts from a Diary - The Flavel, Dartmouth
Exhibitions - Full Listings
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

Statement

My work is shaped by my life, my experiences - and the bridge that links my life and my work is my visual diary. It came to life after my children were born - I'd lost the link between work and life and I needed to find a way to resolve the inherent conflict between motherhood and painting. The diary quickly became central to my work. It is intimate, private and uncensored, and travels with me wherever I go.

Having a diary invites possibility, and it’s this possibility and openess to re-intepretation – once an image has escaped the confines of the diary – that excites and beguiles me. I feel that my work is suggesting a different, more vicarious view of life – one in which the fragility of the everyday is exposed.

It's a way of giving voice when I would normally be silent or guarded. It is, in a sense, holding a mirror up to life and studying its reflection.