Leigh Gillam
Exhibit on fear at the Theatre du Grand Jour until December 12
http://www.auxecuries.com/0910/saison/accueil.php?page=entree
Exhibition/Exposition: May 17 - June 3, 2011.
Opening/Vernissage May 17th 5pm-7pm
By Leigh Gillam
Galerie Nota-Bene Gallery
3416, Av Du Parc
Montreal, QC
Confronting nature, degeneration, death and love, this interdisciplinary installation is a trace of a visceral response to the unrelenting formlessness which is life... and creates a platform to communicate about it through the repetition of imagery in various contexts and forms. Live video attendance!
Face à la nature, la dégénérescence, la mort et l'amour, cette installation interdisciplinaire est la trace d'une réponse viscérale de l'absence de forme implacable qu’est la vie... et crée une plate-forme pour communiquer à ce sujet par la répétition d'imagerie dans des formes et des contextes divers.
Thanks/merci Alan Reed, Jay Gillingham, Amanda Durepos and Papeterie Nota-Bene, Benjamin Henderson et Véronique La Perrière.
Exhibition/Exposition: Dec. 1-4, 2011.
Opening/Vernissage Dec. 2nd 6pm-10pm
Rover Art Fair
Vanhorne Terminal Iron Works Building
Montreal, QC
Thanks to Marianne Ackerman for inviting me to participate in the Rover Art Fair and for all her hard work in organizing the event. It was a great turn out, and I enjoyed watching people interact with the art, (especially those who figured out how to make the head talk on my interactive puppet box!)
Thanks also Jay Gillingham for his constant love and support and of course to Alan Reed.
Here’s what Marianne wrote about my work in the catalogue: “Leigh Gillam works in video, theatre design and painting, but her heart is in sculpture. She has a BFA from Concordia and studied set and costume design at the National Theatre School.
The Rover Art Fair presents her boxed marionnettes, loveable macabre troll-sized beings with crows’ beaks in their bellies, and a video she made using her work as material. She also creates mythical animals in papier maché, sometimes cast in bronze. A young woman to watch, Leigh is working with Théâtre Incliné, making marionettes and costumes for a show called “Closes” which will premiere here in March and opening in France next year. She has other projects in Montreal and the UK. Leigh explains, “The marionettes carry with them vestiges of having been a part of a video performance, a show about coming to the realization that we as humans are a part of something greater. The parts of the birds attached to the puppets try to become a whole bird, metaphorically representing desire or love - the way relationships are always imbued with longing … an effort to make lighter what is sublime in nature, as well as
reveal duplicity.””
