About

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Yves Leather, born 1996 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 behaviour, 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 colour that closely mirror the artist’s own cognitive nature. 

                                ~ Written by Ciarán Mac Domhnaill

Solo Shows

Don't Believe Everything Yves Leather tells you, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow

Inner Conflict and Gayness, Barnes 

Garage Space, Glasgow  

Fire Exit, Bath Ln, Glasgow 

S h o w , Open Studio, Windermere

Mitte, Vrtue Ltd, Online Art Space

Mellow, Folk Art, Windermere

J-a-a-a-r-t, Open Studio, Manchester

City, Open Studio, Manchester

Yves' Gallery, Vrtue Ltd, Online Art Space

No6 Extravaganza, 6 New College Lane, Oxford

Welcome to my Basement, Hallie's House, Oxford

N, St John Gallery, Oxford

Hard for Hummus, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford

Sexual Tension, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford

Free Ale, New College Stables, Oxford

Group Shows

Early Days, Barnes Gallery, Glasgow

Art of the Possible, Glasgow Art Club, Glasgow

Ruskin Show 2018, 128 Bullingdon, Oxford

New College Arts Week, The Stables, Oxford

LMH Art Show, Summer town, Oxford

NC Fine Art Show 2017, Oxford

Lancashire Photography Open, Blackburn

Nightshow, Godstow, Oxford

Response, Lincoln Gallery, Oxford

P E O P L E, Open Studio, Manchester

Art Space June, Blackburn

Lancashire Photography Open, Preston

The Exhibitionists, Blackburn is Open, Blackburn

Remix, Blackburn is Open, Blackburn

Selected Press

Folded Issue Three Identity 2021, Cumbria

Folded Issue One Connection 2020, Cumbria

Obscura Issue 1, Blackburn

Industry Magazine TT 19, Oxford

Industry Magazine TT 18, Oxford

Industry Magazine MT 16, Oxford

ISIS Magazine 16, Oxford

Skill & Hard Work Issue 2, Blackburn

Education

Master of Letters Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art

(2021 - 2022)

Master of Curation, Goldsmiths

(2019 - 2020)

BFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (2015 - 2018)

Manchester Metropolitan University

(2014 - 2018)