Biography - Chris Leach
Born in 1970. A graduate of Wimbledon School of Art. Chris Leach lives and works in County Mayo. He has shown work with Oonagh Young Gallery and with the Claremorris Gallery. He has also shown with the Smart Clothes Gallery in New York. He had a solo exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre in 2012 and has exhibited in group shows at EV&a Exhibition in Limerick, Tulca exhibition in Galway and at the Claremorris Open exhibition.
www.chris-leach.com
Born in 1970. A graduate of Wimbledon School of Art. Chris Leach lives and works in County Mayo. He has shown work with Oonagh Young Gallery and with the Claremorris Gallery. He has also shown with the Smart Clothes Gallery in New York. He had a solo exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre in 2012 and has exhibited in group shows at EV&a Exhibition in Limerick, Tulca exhibition in Galway and at the Claremorris Open exhibition.
www.chris-leach.com
Project Outline
My work has consistently been about dialogues of scale and perspective. One of the main concerns in my work is how our psychological understanding of the world is formulated by not only direct experience but our abstract sense of constructed space, the network of lines and framing that facilitates our ability to navigate the world, the physical parameters of our own personal journeys. For the FIND project I will be engaging with a number or businesses and organisations around the centre of Castlebar. I will then be interviewing particular individuals in each location to find out about the journeys that they have undertaken around the world. I am interested in how those physical relations overlap and build connections both for the individual concerned and in their understanding of how the world is constructed and how those connections relate to the local social structure. From the interviews I will then produce a miniature drawing of each location. My work is very small scale, so the works will be located on window frames, or discreetly within a particular environment so that although not immediately apparent the works would require a degree of investigation to find them.
For the accompanying exhibition at the Linenhall Arts Centre, I will be displaying the background and research information regarding each of the drawings. This work would seek to outline for the audience the wider conceptual basis of the work and would also include transcripts of interviews with each participant outlining the reasons for choosing their particular locations, along with images and accompanying documentation. This work would form an integral part of the ‘complete’ artwork, allowing me to highlight aspects and information that although perhaps inferred in the drawings would clarify and expand on the research information gathered from the project.
My work has consistently been about dialogues of scale and perspective. One of the main concerns in my work is how our psychological understanding of the world is formulated by not only direct experience but our abstract sense of constructed space, the network of lines and framing that facilitates our ability to navigate the world, the physical parameters of our own personal journeys. For the FIND project I will be engaging with a number or businesses and organisations around the centre of Castlebar. I will then be interviewing particular individuals in each location to find out about the journeys that they have undertaken around the world. I am interested in how those physical relations overlap and build connections both for the individual concerned and in their understanding of how the world is constructed and how those connections relate to the local social structure. From the interviews I will then produce a miniature drawing of each location. My work is very small scale, so the works will be located on window frames, or discreetly within a particular environment so that although not immediately apparent the works would require a degree of investigation to find them.
For the accompanying exhibition at the Linenhall Arts Centre, I will be displaying the background and research information regarding each of the drawings. This work would seek to outline for the audience the wider conceptual basis of the work and would also include transcripts of interviews with each participant outlining the reasons for choosing their particular locations, along with images and accompanying documentation. This work would form an integral part of the ‘complete’ artwork, allowing me to highlight aspects and information that although perhaps inferred in the drawings would clarify and expand on the research information gathered from the project.