between the foot & breath 

between the foot and the breath : fimo, steel, garden wire and blanket, 5ft x 5ft x 12ft, 1999. dumbfounded, Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK. 1999. Group exhibition - Phyllida Barlow, Nicholas Bolton, Carmel Buckley, David Burrows, David Cheeseman, Lynn Fulton, Leila Galloway. Exhibition curated by Carmel Buckley, Alison Green, Mark Harris and John Wigley. May 1-30, 1999.

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"...Galloway's sculptures have a formal engagement with space that requests the presence of a viewer. Hers are works that resist written summary since certain aspects of them depend on the visual and the physical, rather than the descriptive. Like some of her earlier works, Between the Foot and the Breath engages the whole room by reaching from floor to ceiling. Galloway treads a fine line between autonomy and site-specificity: her pieces are sometimes modular, and thus can conform to a particular exhibition space by growing or shrinking. Galloway might arrive to install a work with potential inclusions that never end up in it, and yet which may turn up in another installation later. This represents a strategy for creating sculptural presence that is conscious of the relationship between object and space. Her works satisfy close looking; they also imply that they were made with pleasure. This information is tactile, and it can really only be appreciated up close..."

P.23, Alison Green, dumbfounded catalogue designed and published by Alison Green. ISBN 0 9536420 0 3

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