Giles Leaman

Giles Leaman is a London based artist, musician and arts facilitator, who works with various mediums including collage, painting, sculpture and printing. He works as an arts educator across the community, creating musical instruments with children and adults and building play environments such as Hayward Adventure Playground for Children with additional needs. Leaman has been a musician for over 40 years, playing Percussion and Oboe with various groups including Penguin Café Orchestra, Rip Rig and Panic, The Drones and many more. Furthermore, he has played alongside performers in theatre and puppet shows with the Indefinite Articles Theatre Company. As an artist, he has exhibited in group shows at the Hundred Years Gallery and Stoke Newington Library. He was recently part of an exhibition showing drummers’ art, ‘CRASH RIDE SNARE’, which toured London, Liverpool and Glasgow.

Leaman’s work reflects his passion for mixed media. His love of printed material and found paper collected throughout the years, becomes a visual diary in his collage creations. He wishes to demonstrate the story that a piece of paper can hold, as the world moves from analogue to digital. Many of the works are made using fragments found on holiday, torn posters pulled from billboards across the world, put together to form new compositions. Built on the relationship between the found shapes and colours, there is a certain level of nostalgia to the work, documenting lost histories and what has survived the test of time.