Homage To All the Men I've Ever Loved - Especially Barry, Whom I've Never Met 

ALL WELCOME ———🫶 

 

LEILA GALLOWAY

 

“homage to all the men I’ve ever loved - especially Barry, whom I’ve never met.”

 

 

Two years ago, my world fell apart. I’m still in the unmaking of a marriage - in the thick of divorce.  As part of my rebuild, I’m using this residency as a process of reflection through material and memory.

 

It’s a way of picking through the wreckage of past relationships - not just lovers, but sculptors, the men who helped me understand what form could hold.

 

I’m thinking about impossibility and memory - how things hold each other up or are interconnected - the actual and the insurmountable.

 

This is a homage - tender, but not without ambivalence - to all the men l’ve loved, who, in some ways, have been my best teachers.

 

I’m using Eugenio Espinoza’s drawings as a catalyst for this residency, and for our upcoming exhibition “in-a-gadda-da-vida” at the Auction House, Redruth.Some of his works are included here.

 

 

🫶 PV - Fri 13th 6-8pm & Open - Sat 14th 11-3pm June.

      Backlane West, Redruth, TR15 2BT.

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Photo credit: Anthony Prothero

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MATERIALS: Charity shop wool blankets, waxed brown paper for wrapping tools, polyethylene sheeting, tape, black acrylic paint, , mustard powder, agave stem, plastic bags, cleats, waxed cotton thread, speakers x 2. Audio grab: fragments from the Heart Sutra stripped of words, reduced to the beat of monk’s strikes. Sometimes the beat stops entirely.

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