Ilga Leimanis
Excess All Areas 

Five Years Residency: 17-29 September 2019
Gallery Open: 28-29 Sept Sat-Sun 1-6pm
Closing Event: Friday 27 Sept 6-9pm

All other times open by appointment

 

Five Years will be hosting Ilga Leimanis for a short residency to develop a new series of drawings, which will be shown in the gallery during usual opening hours
(Saturday - Sunday 1-6pm).

 

This new work picks up from another series of drawings made earlier this year. These small pieces explored excess: overflowing vessels poured forth their contents and offered a vehicle to visualise the rhythm and energy of overflow and inundation. Work made during this residency hopes to explore a darker, fragmented, more explosive and turbulent excess, its energy uncontained and overflowing.

 

Montreal-born Ilga Leimanis is a London-based visual artist working in drawing, illustration and painting. Long term collaborations include working with Doreen Wittenbols as Ortelius Drew and with architect Bidisha Sinha as Architecture of Conversation. Since 2007, Ilga is founder of a monthly London drawing group Drawn in London.  Her practice in drawing extends to education: teaching drawings skills and creative process courses in London and internationally, as well as research and writing.

 

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