I can't feel rainbows
I can’t feel rainbows : plastic, coal & rubber, 9ft x 7ft x7ft, 2004. doubtful pleasures, 2004, A.P.T. Gallery, London, UK. Group exhibition Jo Addison, Veronique Chance, Leila Galloway, Adam Gillam, Max Mosscrop, Clunie Reid, Alice Walton, Simon Wells.
"...But its focus is inwards, towards the emanations of its insides. Leila Galloway’s sculpture raises the question of feeling oneself, the internal ruminations and movements of one’s inner organs. Our consciousness of ourselves, our body image is formed in the contact of self with self, the contact of skin folded on itself, the internal contact of organs. We are a swarm, a shoal, a multitude. Our internal sensations are mobile, our consciousness shifting, swimming. In the making of this work, she uses he kind of repetitive, addictive actions which gradually fall below consciousness, like the body's own secret work of breathing, pumping, digesting, circulating, and the constant internal knitting and replicating of cells and tissue...".
P.51-54, Max Mosscrop, Miser & Now', Nov, Issue Five, UK on 'Pleasure', Doubtful Pleasures, a gallery publication by Keith Talent Gallery, London.
"...got me thinking about restrictions and poverty that many artists often face - especially if you make a conscious decision not to engage in the art market...My work comes through working with materials - always from what is available in my immediate surrounding - in the 80’s - my first studio was in Granton, Edinburgh - next door to United Wire Uk leading wire weavers - the company let me rummage through their skips - developing into sponsorship in-kind for the Festival shows - not sure this would happen today - there's a tightening up of capital! In the 90’s onwards - I used coal and garden wire bought from the local DIY shops and used discarded shopping trolleys pulled from Deptford Creek, also wire frames from the secondhand market in Deptford...".
