Declan Leslie
Declan Leslie’s practice is all about visual storytelling. He works across a range of media; 2D (drawing and painting), 3D (sculpture, ceramics and model making) and digital (film and animation), whichever best suits the particular story he is trying to tell.
Declan Leslie creates very inventive fluid drawings in which he explores various themes. He likes to research a subject matter and really work through all the variations he can get from it. Declan‘s work is often populated by figures, he particularly likes scenarios that represent the more macabre aspects of human behaviour, these can include horror and grotesqueries in which he adds a twist of humour. He creates works with various drawing mediums and as part of his art practise he explores these mediums pushing them as far as he can go once, he has exhausted their possibilities he likes to begin experimenting with a new medium. Within his material experimentations, he often creates his own unique techniques.
Delcan was selected to be a workshop co-leader for Camden Art Centre‘s SEN Schools Programme 2022 – 2024.
Exhibitions
- Den!, Camden Art Centre, 2024
- Concealed, Revealed, Cockpit Bloomsbury Winter Open Studios, London, 2023
- Machine? Machine!, Camden Art Centre, 2023
- Watch This…, Cockpit Bloomsbury Winter Open Studios, 2022
- The Out There Art Fair: Shaking the Everyday, Cockpit Arts Winter Open Studios, 2021
- x3 Electric Dreams, online exhibition, 2021
- The Out There Art Fair: Patterns of My Mind, Cockpit Arts Winter Open Studios, 2019
- Art is Part of The Equation, Royal Academy, 2019
- Bold & Beautiful, Kentish Town City Farm, October 2018 – ongoing
- The Out There Art Fair, Cockpit Arts Christmas Open Studios, 2017
- The Out There Art Fair, Cockpit Arts Christmas Open Studios, 2016
- Dizziness of Freedom, Tight Modern Tour, 2014
- Oh Wow! 32 Responses to Colour and Light, Cockpit Arts Summer Open Studios, 2014
- A Carriage Through Time, London Transport Museum, 2014
- I Was Framed, Cockpit Arts Christmas Open Studios, 2013