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Leanne Davies was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. In 1993, she moved to Toronto in her duct-taped ‘74 Malibu towing a 17-foot trailer full of crap. In 1996, she graduated from York University’s Visual Arts Department with a BFA.
Like many of her art school grads, she combined her musical pursuits with a paying job, playing drums in indie-rock bands and working the tech boom of the late ‘90s. In 2005, she retired from new media and began painting again. Migrating from a small corner of her makeshift bedroom/studio, she relocated to the Artscape Wychwood Barns in mid-Toronto in 2008. |
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Leanne has been a past board member of Art Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre, is a member of Side Space Gallery (an artist-run gallery on St. Clair West), and Gallery 1313. Leanne has been working out of her studio in the Artscape Wychwood Barns since it opened in November 2008, but is currently living and working in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France (until August 2010).
Leanne’s paintings can be found in private collections in Canada, the United States, and Germany.
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The thread that connects my past work to the present are the different ways in which memories are communicated.
I have painted images from old snapshots and still-life images from objects of my youth. But I’ve also created my own memories (of the future), using cute little furry animals as subject-matter.
Every memory is lacking. This is a necessity. If memories were to represent every detail of an experience, they would be incomprehensible. So I tell stories through composite images. Some are drawn from memory. Others are manufactured. Snapshots from childhood take precisely this form. You might have seen an image only a few times in your life, but because others have repeatedly told the story surrounding that image, there are details that need to be added in, extrapolated, and exaggerated in order to complete the narrative. In my work, I try to capture those missing details, whether real or made-up, and paint them in.
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