About the Artist
Lesley works primarily in photo-based media, using a variety of tools including traditional photographic equipment and digital media to initially capture images from which work can be developed. The emphasis within her practice can be found in the physical processes of printing the images onto surfaces which have a direct link to the photographs themselves. Recent works have focused on destruction and decomposition and namely the unique, inherent beauty, which can be captured during the process of decay.

Biography:
Lesley McLaren was born in Glasgow in 1984. At an early age she moved to Fife with her family and despite a brief stay in Dundee she returned to Fife and remains there at present. In 2004 and 2005 she completed courses at Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London. In 2006 she completed a BA Hons in Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone college of Art and Design in Dundee.

Exhibitions:

Future Exhibitions:

Falkland Centre For Stewardship Arts - Falkland Fife
February 2008

Past Exhibitions:

‘New Graduate Show, part 2′ - Bridge View Gallery, Aberdeen
March-May 2007

‘Social Work’ - Changing Room Gallery, Stirling
December 2007

Duncan of Jordanstone Degree show, Dundee
May 2006

RSA Show - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
April 2006

Website: Lesley J Mclaren
Contact email: ljmclaren@hotmail.co.uk

Since 1970, Roger Palmer has produced poetry, paintings, installations, and a large body of drawings. His installations of drawings and artifacts have been shown in such venues as Diverseworks in Houston (solo and group shows), NEXUS in Atlanta, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL; Tampa Museum of Art and Ringling Museum of Art, FL, which purchased an installation for their permanent collection. He has received a regional NEA Grant, two Florida Individual Artists grants, as well as grants to do installations at Miami Waves Film Festival, Nexus, and The Artists’ Alliance in Tampa, FL. He participated in a NEA funded collaborative performance work, “Smarter than Dogs”, and a collaborative project with PWA�s which traveled to Miami and Orlando. He has self-published 3 books, one of which (”The Inheritance and Other Stories”) is archived at Franklin Furnace, NYC and has had poetry and/or images published in Sonoma Review (U. of Arizona), the Journal of the NAEA, and Tabloid Magazine. With a strong affinity for Japanese and Chinese Haiga and Zenga painting as well as East Asian poetry, he spent six weeks in Japan in 1985, then visited China in 1990 where he was a guest artist at Nanjing Normal University. A University of South Florida MFA, Roger has taught computer art, word and image seminars, drawing, design, and art appreciation at such places as University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Community College and Montana State University. He works reclusively, often in a cabin he hand built in Ozello, FL.

I think the social or political begins to live in a drawing through unexpected situations, allowing one to savor a small fragment of context. The acceptance of numbness from over stimulation by a contemporary issue is a facing of the page. It’s a daily page made of rag and paralysis waiting for the stumbling of a wet brush. The act of trying to feel something that is at least alive in the hand. A drawing diary against the blunting flow of information too cleaned and trimmed to support the weight of its own absurdity.

Website: Roger Palmer