PETER A LEIGH
Lives and works in United Kingdom
Recent exhibitions
Cork Street open 2012
Stone Space Gallery 2012
The Gallery on the Corner
Project 2012 Battersea
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Night of the Museums 2011
National Gallery
Cosenza, Italy 2011
Dreamspace Gallery
Dufferin Street
London 2011
A&D Gallery
Marylebone, London 2011
The Outside World
Hackney Wick 2011
Wandsworth Open Studios 2010
Apart Gallery
Notting Hill 2005
Pond Gallery
Clapham 2004
Rose street Gallery
Covent Garden 1991 & 1993
Young Unknowns Gallery
South Bank 1988
Artist statement
Peter’s work isolates moments of the surreal from within the popular; that he feels are at times, passed by and perhaps even cognitively dismissed. The selection of figures and objects in Peter’s prints and paintings are considered, upon reflection, from initial impressions of his emotional response to them that later contribute and inform these suspended moments, fractional in their existence, by way of distillation, deconstruction, historical context and review. After analysing some of the surrounding forms a reduction or eliminating process to isolate a subject, item or person; so as to highlight and recall those earlier responses. The colours within Peter’s work are chosen from symbolic elements, relating to an iconography of a ceremonial religious past, versed in the contemporary media so prevalent of today’s culture and often using the suspense and frozen moments of black and white, that capture and make an image timeless in the reproduced printed media. The result draws a parallel between traditional colour and their present-day subjects, who are delivered, via the conduit of an iconographic contemporary world. Peter A Leigh is a U.K. born and is currently a London Based artist.