Lesley Guy
Lesley Guy is an artist and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a member of TOTALLER, a collective of artists based around the North of England and Neuschloss, a research group at Northumbria University. She is currently undertaking a PhD titled, I AM AN US: Exploring the Boundaries of a Shared Practice. Recent projects include, All I Can See is Trees at IMT Gallery, London and A-Bun-Dance at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Neuschloss were recently commissioned by RADAR at Loughborough University to produce the publication Cleaved Into, an interactive art history RPG. She is a regional editor for Corridor8.
Solo exhibitions and with TOTALLER
2024 - IAMANUS, Lipman Hub, Northumbria University, Newcastle
2022 - A-BUN-DANCE, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2022 - GARSHIELDFIELD summoning ritual, The NewBridge Project (online performance)
2020 - The Whole Nine Yards, Twitch TV, curated by Harley Kuyck-Cohen (screening)
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
2025 - Sell Out Show, Herðubreið, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2024 - What Are Words Worth? Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle
2023 - All I Can See Are Trees, IMT Gallery, London
2022 - The Raspberry Oracle Live, ArtHouses, with Tom O’Sullivan
2021 - Thingstead, with Cat Auburn, Lea Torp Nielsen and Ciara Lenihan, The Northern Charter, Newcastle
2021 - We saw the Creature Crawl Away…, ArtHouses WiFi, w Tom O’Sullivan, Whitley Bay
2020 - The Raspberry Oracle, ArtHouses Inverted, online oracle, with Tom O’Sullivan
2018 - Dark Matter Sotto Voce, Sheffield Institute of Art and Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield
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
2021 - It’s Better 2 B An Us, AN magazine 40th Anniversary edition, poster
2021 - A Meeting of the Friends of TOTALLER, Artlicks 26 Radical Gestures, publication
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
2019 -2024, PhD, Northumbria University
2010 - MA Contemporary Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
1999 - BA (Hons), Fine Art, The University of Leeds, UK
Helping Artists Keep Going
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