Painter
Michelle Leigh
54 Artworks
Michelle Leigh
United Kingdom
Credentials
- International Exposure
- Experienced Artist
- Works on commission
« I am interested in using paint as a language to express an experience, distilling the visual information to its essence. »
Michelle Leigh is a prize-winning artist based in the United Kingdom where her works have been widely exhibited. Her art evokes an experience associated with place rather than a literal representation. At its core, Leigh's compositions are rooted in the everyday, with subjects ranging from deserted bandstands to seafronts and backstreets against which everyday life is enacted. She believes that "the epic in the every day" and is inspired by in-between moments of clarity that interrupt our busy activities.
Arts Council England Grants for the Arts , Lottery Funded- Arts Council England Lottery Funded Award for Individual Artists; Emergency Response Fund during Corona-19- MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum - Nominated- London, United Kingdom
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Dep't Fine Arts- Master of Fine Arts ( Painting) M.F.A.- Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
British Academy- British Academy Major State Studentship- MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Manchester School of Art, Medlock Fine Art Centre- B.A.(1st Class) Hons, Fine Art, Painting- MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Manchester School of Art- First Prize, Arts Foundation Yr Award for Outstanding Work; Paintings, Drawings and printmaking- MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibition, Retrospective ;Paintings & Prints / Stockport Art Gallery - Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibition, 'Pathways' / Dukes Oak Gallery, Sandbach - Cheshire, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibition, 'Footfalls' featuring new work from Prague / Salford Museum &Art Galleries - Salford, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibition ' Tracks & Trails' Paintings and Prints / Astley Cheetham Art Gallery - Stalybridge, Tameside, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibition, Watercolours & Oils from Portugal and England / Castlefield Gallery - MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibition; Michelle Leigh .First solo show in Cumbria which received critical acclaim;ArtReview 1988 / Gallery North, Kirkby Lonsdale - Cumbria, United Kingdom
Inaugural Exhibition, Manchester Open Selected Show / Home, Manchester, International Contemporary Arts Centre - MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
The Art Fair Cheshire, supporting East Cheshire Hospice / Cheshire - Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Manchester Art Fair, paintings represented by Elastic Space, Fine Art Consultants / Manchester Central Station - MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Opening Exhibition, showing alongside LS Lowry, Dora Holzhandler and more. / Art Inc Gallery - Prestwich, United Kingdom
'Take Three Girls' / The Wendy J Levy Gallery - Didsbury, Manchester, United Kingdom
Book Launch of ' Twelve Women Artists' by Judy rose and Wendy J Levy / Peter House - Manchester, United Kingdom
Bred and Buttered in the North / New Grafton Gallery, Barnes - London, United Kingdom
' Times of our Lives'; 'Rites of Passage'. Exhibition organised as part of the Millenium celebrations / Whitworth Art Gallery - MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Quantum Contemporary / Battersea - London, United Kingdom
The Europa Biographical Reference Series- Worlds Who's Who of Women-15th Edition
Wynter Video Productions for The Lowry Art Galleries- 'So You Want To Be An Artist'
Wendy J Levy & Judy Rose- 'A Colourful Canvas:Twelve Women Artists in the North West'
Whitworth Art Gallery- 'A Splash of Colour', introduction by Art Historian Michael Howard
Corporate Collection of Latham, Crossley & Davis, Parsonage Gardens, Manchester, United Kingdom
Manchester Airport, International Business Lounge, United Kingdom
Manchester Art Gallery; Rutherstones Loan Collection, United Kingdom
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