ECUAD AWARD WINNER - DAVID MCLEISH
david mcleish
winner
of the 2014 andré and marita nudelman award
for visual arts, 2nd prize
for visual arts, 2nd prize
David McLeish is an
artist living and working in Vancouver, BC. He received a BA in Art and Culture
Studies from Simon Fraser University, a MA in Theory, Culture, and Politics
form Trent University, and a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University. He
works in photography, illustration, and collage, attempting to marry
philosophical rigor with a commitment to beautiful and arresting images.
“Memento Amore" 2012
Inkjet print, 65"x 42", Edition of 10
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The images in the
series “Divisions” are all diptychs of drawings rendered in chalk on the wall
of the artist’s studio apartment. The drawings are negatives, making their
photographic inversions into positive images. Each drawing, once photographed,
was then erased and replaced by the subsequent image. The photographs are both
documents of a transitory event and essential to ‘activating’ the drawings. The
series is loosely based on the Platonic dialogue Phaedrus, exploring ideas and images that have inextricably
positive and negative valences (love, death, immortality, ambition, etc.) ideas
that cannot be fully grasped without understanding both their positive and
negative aspects. The studio and the camera, like Plato’s cave, become
metaphors for the mind, under the sway of alluring illusion.
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