lesley.bunch
ArtEvol 2025 / Lesley Bunch
Shadow Sculpture 40 , 2025 Oil on aluminium 50 × 60 × 2cm
Lesley Bunch is an artist whose practice spans painting and mixed media, examining perception, memory, and layered narratives. Bunch studied at Goldsmiths College and SOAS, University of London, completing a BA in Fine Art and Art History and an MA in Archaeology focused on Japanese art of the Edo period. Bunch’s works feature in private collections in the UK, the US, Italy, Germany, South Korea, and the Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting . Active within the artistic community, Bunch is Joint Secretary of Contemporary British Painting and a member of The London Group, contributing to exhibitions, collaborations, and initiatives that foster engagement with contemporary painting.
Artwork Introduction
For the Shadow Sculpture series, Lesley Bunch borrows ‘casting objects’ that are invested with the lenders’ emotions, memories, and sense of identity. Each lender is interviewed about their attachment to their object, and then a shadow is created with it. Although the shadow’s composition is influenced by Bunch’s interpretation of the lenders’ stories, ultimately the shadow becomes a detached, autonomous entity, no longer anchored to, or a stand-in for, its casting object. Reproduced in Bunch’s paintings, each shadow becomes a manifestation of, or the remains of, the exchange with the lender. The paintings are built in many fine, flat, transparent layers, sculpting with colour. Bunch is interested in the moment when the painting takes on a life of its own and seems to guide the hand; when the colour-sculpted presence takes on an expression of suchness, and becomes an intricately detailed, solid form. These paintings form a visual language resisting verbal interpretation, untied to literal meaning—an absented presence. They exist; they sit silently in the globalised, unanchored overload of information that we increasingly drift in.
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