Lesley Guy is an artist and writer based in Newcastle, UK. She graduated with an MA in Contemporary Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University in 2010 and has exhibited widely across Europe, Asia and the UK. Group shows include Portmanteau, curated by g39 for Halle 14 in Leipzig, Jeune Creation at Centquatre, Paris, Appropriate Response, Vulpes Vulpes, London, POSSESSION (1) at BACC, Bangkok and
Lesley Guy is an artist and writer based in Newcastle, UK. She graduated with an MA in Contemporary Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University in 2010 and has exhibited widely across Europe, Asia and the UK. Group shows include Portmanteau, curated by g39 for Halle 14 in Leipzig, Jeune Creation at Centquatre, Paris, Appropriate Response, Vulpes Vulpes, London, POSSESSION (1) at BACC, Bangkok and Deadpan Exchange VIII at Casa Maauad in Mexico City. She works as part of the collective known as TOTALLER.
TOTALLER has a shared belief around the aesthetic as a destructive, progressively utopian and totalising force. The group is composed of four members – Lesley Guy, Dale Holmes, Lea Torp Nielsen and Chris Fielder. The group attempts to deliver a series of aesthetic shocks through taking risks with categories such as credibility, beauty and style, exploring approaches to these without irony or self-consciousness. They aim to work within the bounds of a new or imagined Dark Age, a space for making that is free from anxiety and allows for new forms of creation.
Solo exhibitions and with TOTALLER
2017 - Uni-Corn-Utopia, ArtHouses, Whitley Bay
2016 - The Birth Of Totaller - Slide Show, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2016 - Concrete Utopia, Sheffield Fringe, Bloc Projects
2015 - BARR IC ADE, Garage, Edinburgh Art Festival
2015 - 15” Deep Pan Stuffed Crust Portuguese Man O’ War (Totaller’s Studio), Paper Gallery, Manchester
2014 - Tlazolteotler Fiesta! East Street Arts, Leeds
2014 - Pizza Fest, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2010 - If.., g39, Cardiff
Group exhibitions
2017 - Take Me To Your Leader, Samuel Worth Non-Conformist Chapel, Sheffield
2015 - The Sylvester Structure, Sluice Art Fair, OXO Bargehouse, London
2015 - The Tetley's 2015 Collection, Artist's Commission, The Tetley, Leeds
2015 - Empower, Bocs, Caernarfon
2015 - Sluice Fundraiser Exhibition, The Hospital Club, Covent Garden
2014 - OVERSEASONED (Part Deux), Salt + Powell, York
2014 - GANG, Art in the Park in the Dark, Liverpool
2014 - OVERSEASONED, Gage Gallery, Sheffield
2014 - I Know You; You can come With Me, Oriel Wrexham
2014 - Deadpan Exchange IV - Caasa Maude, Mexico City
2014 - POSSESSION (lI), LGP, Coventry
2013 - Conway stall, Manchester Contemporary, UK
2013 - A3 Works, A3 Project Space, Digbeth, Birmingham
2013 - Das Wird Sich Alles Finden, Arts Collingwood, Cleveland, Ohio
2013 - GARAGE, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh
2013 - Here There Everywhere, Oriel Wrecsam, Wrexham, Wales
2013 - POSSESSION (l), BACC, Bangkok
2012 - Appropriate Response , Vulpes Vulpes, London
2012 - Das Wird Sich Alles Finden, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK
2012 - Microcosm, Departure Lounge, Leeds
2012 - Moveable Feast, Hotel du sauroy, Paris
2012 - ‘PURE JOY (WINS AGAIN)’, The Coterie Gallery, Chapeltown
2011 - Citizen, tactileBOSCH, Cardiff
2011 - Jeune Creation, Centquatre, 106, Paris
2011 - We Are All In This Together, Bureau, Manchester
2011 - Portmanteau, g39, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
2011 - Off Duty at The Burlington Fine Arts Club, Manchester
2010 - Collaborators 2, ROOM, London
2010 - Endgame, Persistence works, Sheffield
2009 - Otherliness: Host 09, Vane , Newcastle Upon Tyne
2008 - Curiosity, Vault Gallery, Lancaster
2008 - Observatory: Host 08, Millennium Galleries, Art Sheffield 08
2007 - Deja Vu, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2007 - Home Disco: Host 07, Consortium Gallery, Amsterdam
2007 - Beauty: Host 06, The Sheffield Pavillion, The 52nd Venice Biennale
Other projects
2014 - Library Interventions, Leeds College of Art
2013 - I'm Not Ok, Bloc Studios, Studio 27
2010 - Day Zero, Tether, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Residencies
2015 - Civilisation, Library Interventions, Leeds College of Art
2012 - VINYL: SITE Group residency, The Meter Room, Coventry
Public commissions
2013 - Convergence is a Cryptic Crossword, Sheffield Hallam University, Degree Show Catalogue
2012 - Do It Thissen, Festival of the Mind, Montgomery Hall, Sheffield
Publications
2012 - The Drawing Paper #6
2012 - The Red Headed League
2010 - Patricide 2. Seaside Surrealism
Awards and Prizes
2010 - Winner of the International Colouring-in Competition, Bloc Projects
Qualifications and training
2010 - MA Contemporary Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
1999 - BA (Hons), Fine Art, The University of Leeds, UK
