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Leah Moodie Leah Moodie, Inside Out, Oil and Gloss Enamel on PVC, 35cm x 35cm. 2021
Leah Moodie, Polaroid Series, (Taken at home in Orkney), 2021
[Leah Moodie, b.1999 Orkney, Scotland, BA Painting Graduate of the Edinburgh
College of Art 2021]
The mind is where our conception of “home” exists and when it separates from the
home environment, it becomes an imagined zone in which we ‘project our fantasies of
escape from fears and anxieties’1. The home environment is thought of as an
encapsulation of comfort and safety. This is partly because every aspect of it is uniquely
controllable to the homeowner. Our home and the objects we choose to fill it with - what
design of wallpaper, what kitchen fittings, what settee - are all our individual choices, an
externalisation of the self. I find comfort by creating my own versions of home through
making artwork. I layer familiar domestic objects and reference images taken from my
own home to envision confusing new realities.
1Jacobs, K. and J. Malpas. 2013. Material objects, identity and the home: towards a relational housing
research agenda. Housing, Theory and Society 30.3, 281–92.
Leah Moodie, Home Studio, 2021
Leah Moodie, Domestic Degree Show, 2021
To trigger a feeling of familiarity in the viewer of the spaces depicted, I use household
materials to make my work. I paint onto PVC shower curtains which are domestic objects in
themselves, but my main interest in this material is its transparency and capacity to create
layers. The stretcher and the wall supporting it become part of the finished image as they shine
through the surface, and initial drawings are also integrated into the works. The presence of the
artist’s hand is a prominent part of my work, creating deliberate aspects of inexactitude to
reflect my interest in psychological imbalance. I have taken to considering my paintings as their
own interior spaces within the stretchers.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic I grew interested in the concept of masks and
hidden identities. Through my application of paint, bleeding is created between objects and
identities as one aspect fades into another, thus creating immersive compositions and allowing
quiet conversations and tensions to be released.
Leah Moodie, Detail of Blue Cigar, Oil, Charcoal, Household Enamel and Wall+Ceiling Paint on PVC Shower
Curtain, 35cm x 65cm, 2021
Leah Moodie, Telling White Lies to Black Cats, Oil on PVC Shower Curtain, 21cm x 30cm, 2020
Leah Moodie, Daydream Tendencies, Graphite on Lining Paper, 56cm x 94cm 2021
Leah Moodie, Domestic Degree Show, 2021
C.V
Group Exhibitions
2020
Annual Open Exhibition, Pier Arts
Centre, Stromness, Orkney
New Becoming Normal, Portobello -
@newbecomingnormal
The Marriage of Tradition and
Modernity, Hospitalfield House,
Arbroath
GP-Plus and The Bridge Awards,
GP-Plus Edinburgh
2019
Sa-lon, Suckers, EMBASSY Gallery,
Edinburgh
Awards
Winner, The Astaire Art Prize
2020
Features
RAG X SE7EN, 2021 “International
Women’s Day Zine”
GUM, 2020 "Home" issue Page 35
Contact
Email: leah.m7@hotmail.com
Instagram: @leah_moodie
Website: www.leahmoodie.com
Leah Moodie, Domestic Degree Show, 2021
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