Video: Lesley-Anne Green caricature dolls
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Scary and ugly - no doubt yes. Funny and awkward - also yes. Clay doll figurines by Canadian artist Lesley-Anne Green evoke mixed feelings and emotions in viewers who come to exhibitions and various shows to see her work.
Undoubtedly, such dolls are not at all for children, and not for their children's games, but many people would probably not mind having such clay caricatures in their home collection. After all, dolls are ordinary people: doctors, students, schoolgirls, housewives, pianists, ballerinas, whose appearance is just a little distorted. Many believe that the work of the sculptor Leslie-Anne Green is strongly influenced by the work of her husband Jeff Lemire, who is a cartoon illustrator by profession. How could it be otherwise if Leslie-Anna Green not only lives with this person under the same roof, but also works. Two creative minds share a single creative space, working in the same studio. Good or bad is not known. But in close cooperation, creative ideas are exchanged and borrowed, and it is possible that what Leslie-Anna's husband painted takes on a clay form in her workshop hands. Such is the conjugal creative tandem.
Leslie-Anna Green studied ceramics at Sheridan College. After graduation, using all the knowledge and subtleties of working with clay, she began to create her own unique clay figurines and dolls. The artist lives and works in Toronto, together with her cartoonist husband Jeff Lemire and their three cats. And Leslie-Anna, in her own words, is proud that her work is presented at many exhibitions in cities such as Toronto, Santa Fe, Seattle and Berlin.
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