Ryan Leigh
Ryan Leigh, Ryan Leigh, 2012 (graphite on graph paper)
b. 1987). Lives and works in London.
Leigh is interested in explanations of physical reality and man’s need for an all-encompassing ‘theory of everything’. Works such as Fruit of the Pleroma (2010) are executed in graphite on graph paper. They are intensely detailed, and predominantly question differing means of communication, for instance the ‘documentary’ drawing and how it has been used in scientific or religious contexts to express a given truth. By splicing and cutting the diagrammatic image or juxtaposing and integrating it with other images, photographs or drawings from a different era or series of symbols, Leigh’s work both comments on the relationships within society’s different belief systems, and highlights the futility of the search for an objective truth.
Education
2006-
Selected Group Exhibitions
Courtship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield, London, 2012
Apartment, Bloomsbury Square, London, 2011
Base Metal, Simon Oldfield, London, 2010
Saatchi 4 New Sensations, A Foundation, Shoreditch, London, 2009
Show, Wimbledon College of Art, London, 2009
Awards
Saatchi 4 New Sensations (shortlisted) 2009
Collections
University of the Arts London, Emerging Artists Collection, UK
Jason Atherton Collection, London, UK
Private collections in the UK, USA and Europe
New work by Ryan Leigh
We have just received this incredible new work by Ryan Leigh, Fruit Of The Pleroma (After Hobbema), 2011, graphite on graph paper. Ryan is working towards his first solo show, which will be at the gallery in early 2012. For...read more














