"Drawing as a direct mode of ordering thought can reveal unique, flawed and fragile things.. the artist, engaged in the act of perpetual looking, can draw the audience in, as Leach does, magnifying those complex realities that remain unchallenged, highlighting unchartered thresholds between the established and the yet to be discovered.”
Joanne Laws – On the threshold of recognition
"Any artwork can either be glanced at or studied intensely depending on the propensities of the viewer, but here a mere glance would reveal nothing at all, so looking at this work demands an investment of serious attention. The close looking required prompts reflection on the conceptual and metaphorical aspects of the work as much as the technique and skill involved in its production."
Derek Horton - Jurisdictions: a short space of time
“Maybe the less we are spoon-fed and the more we need to make an effort ourselves, the greater the chance that this will instill in us a lasting engagement with the art. Chris Leach’s art seems to operate in this zone. The work makes you enter a world through the compression of your mind but the expansion of your senses. “
Elizabeth Hatz, EV+a Matters
Your engagement with these works can be as casual or as engrossing as you like, as simple or as complex, but you will all be struck by their marvellous technique and respect for tradition that is carefully enmeshed in their contemporary production. A deceptive simplicity on first viewing leads you into an ever expanding spatial and conceptual universe, a tiny jewel that leads you outwards into infinite space.
Alice Maher, Silence, exile and cunning..
Joanne Laws – On the threshold of recognition
"Any artwork can either be glanced at or studied intensely depending on the propensities of the viewer, but here a mere glance would reveal nothing at all, so looking at this work demands an investment of serious attention. The close looking required prompts reflection on the conceptual and metaphorical aspects of the work as much as the technique and skill involved in its production."
Derek Horton - Jurisdictions: a short space of time
“Maybe the less we are spoon-fed and the more we need to make an effort ourselves, the greater the chance that this will instill in us a lasting engagement with the art. Chris Leach’s art seems to operate in this zone. The work makes you enter a world through the compression of your mind but the expansion of your senses. “
Elizabeth Hatz, EV+a Matters
Your engagement with these works can be as casual or as engrossing as you like, as simple or as complex, but you will all be struck by their marvellous technique and respect for tradition that is carefully enmeshed in their contemporary production. A deceptive simplicity on first viewing leads you into an ever expanding spatial and conceptual universe, a tiny jewel that leads you outwards into infinite space.
Alice Maher, Silence, exile and cunning..