Leech’s practice stems from a broad fascination with the world around her. Realised through: drawing; archives; digital imagery; interactive social practice; story; moving image; and installation. These allow the viewer to create their own narratives as they are brought through unusual rumors, local lore, historic or accurate happenings to moments of collective consciousness.

“I see my art practice as an adventure.  I’m an explorer presenting my discoveries. I select and create imagery that draws in the viewer through the familiar and the commonplace.”

The viewer will be presented with an amalgam of installations, minimalist drawing and make-shift collections. Stemming from a lifelong obsession with collecting, the subject matter combines influences from travel, social interactions, history, iconography, myths, legends and museum categorization. These are presented in humorous ways that entice the viewer to decipher connections and explore the multiple narratives set before them.
“She seems to have a knack for finding the bizarre and unique, sometimes under your very nose, in locations you pass by every day. There are moments when her work can make one feel, as Walker Percy would say, “sunk into our own everydayness.” This exchange is perhaps what is most compelling about Leech’s practice; it challenges the unexamined inheritances of our day-to day affairs.”  David Hawkins for Cville newspaper, USA, 2013.

A FREE bus will leave Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast at 6.45pm, and return at 9pm.

To take part in Leech’s dream story survey click here – https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MPLWHX8

A selection of these will be performed on the opening night at 8pm.

Check out her Re-gift Amnesty events at Sustain Market collaborating with Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell.  Events on 17th November and 22nd December. https://www.facebook.com/events/406769466703464/