Yves Leather
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Yves Leather, Glory Hole Spy, 2021£ 12,000.00
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Yves Leather, Inflated Pleasure (Inflated AK-47 Machine Gun), 2022£ 13,400.00
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Yves Leather, Spider Rock in Arizona, 2022£ 6,800.00
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Yves Leather, Stay Gold, 2022£ 6,800.00
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Yves Leather, The Sympathy Donkey, 2021£ 10,150.00
Yves Leather is the offspring of the anti-aesthetic and the cynic. The by-products being self-deprecatory, observational and ready-made. Yves uses performance, print and photography to communicate these attributes to the voluntary spectator or the involuntary public. Such actions challenge the societal ideals surrounding human behavior, relationships and intimacy, by bringing it into a world of critical-fiction, fantasy and sometimes rebellion. The resulting discomfort is seen as an opportunity to engage with those who are outside of the art scene and be inclusive to modes of thought that are not universally accepted or mutually subscribed. Visually, this oftentimes represents itself through disjointed and unrelated spectrums of color that closely mirror the artist’s own cognitive nature.
Lives and works in Glasgow, UK
EDUCATION
2022 ML Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, UK
2019 Master of Curation, Goldsmiths, London, UK
2018 BFA Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, UK
2015 Art Foundation, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 PG Degree Show Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
Don’t Believe Everything Yves Leather Tells You, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK
Early Days, GSA, Glasgow, UK
Inner Conflict and Gayness, Barnes Garage Space, Glasgow, UK
2021 Fire Exit, Bath Ln, Glasgow, UK
2018 Ruskin Show 2018, 128 Bullingdon Road, Oxford, UK
New College Arts Week, The Stables, Oxford, UK
2017 Welcome to my Basement, Hallie's House, UK
N, St John Gallery, Oxford, UK
Hard for Hummus, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, UK
2015 Night Show, Godstow, UK
Sexual Tension, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, UK
2014 The Exhibitionists, Blackburn is Open, Blackburn , UK
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
‘Tol Trees Stage’ , Beatherder 2017, Clitheroe, UK
‘LOMO WALL’, King William Street, Blackburn, UK
PUBLICATIONS
MAP Magazine 2022, Glasgow, UK
JAART, Folded Issue 1 2020, Kendal, UK
https://foldedzine.com/issues/issue-1/cover/
Industry Magazine TT 19, Oxford, UK
Industry Magazine TT 18, Oxford, UK
Industry Magazine MT 16, Oxford, UK
The ISIS Magazine 16, Oxford, UK
Skill & Hard Work Issue 2, Blackburn, UK