A small selection photographs I was commissioned to take for Leicester art week. Engaging as an artist with other artists, the events, venues, art work and audience. Please get in touch if you wish to employ an artist photographer. Will charge a fee depending on budget- leilahouston392@gmail.com Thankyou to everyone involved with Leicester Art week and special thankyou to Khush Kali for the oppertunity.
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Wanted: looking to employ a new Arts Council funding writer, Mel, (who I have worked with 6 years now and will continue to work with) is taking a bit of a back seat in this area as her work load has changed. this will be a paid position and could lead to further paid work. Requirements Essencial - authentically calm, enthusiastic, trustworthy and supportive -Some understanding of dyslexia - i.e. reading, writing, structuring, understanding a need to limit audio or chaotic/ stressful interactions - must have time to support the project with reading the guidelines and discussing the project in meetings, writing up the project clearly, support uploading budget and texts to Grantham/ Arts Council Website, read up on previous projects -good at listening and understanding with a serious intention of a positive out come - ability to get on with other in the team (as this could be a shared position and I have other people I regularly work with) -passion for the arts Preferred - experience writing successful funding applications If interested please email with a letter of experience and interest- leilahouston392@gmail.com Thank you to everyone who got involved and supported this work! A really productive 6 months- looking forward to the next project- have exciting new plans are being drawn up!
A selection of 6 months of exhibition, workshops, photography, little happenings, COMMISSIONS, COLLABORATIONS and work in the studio🎈🎈Soon approaching the end of my 6 month project funded by Arts Council England . Its been an exhausting and eye opening journey- done alot more than i intended (as usual) did a solo show at City Festival , lucky to be included in 3 group shows- made a re-appropriated music box from Clay and recorded sound , created 2 films, 4 photographs on aluminum, created a clay & sound installation (im so blessed to show at New Walk Museum as part of the open ) , created a large mixed media work and made new investigations with paint and ornaments, had many discussions and offered many commissions . Offered a ridiculously busy family day workshop with around 80 people/ children , an interview and gained some further paid work for my photography. Plans have already started for the next 2 year long project- not looking forward to writing that funding form. 😁☀️🥰🎈 #artoftheday #gallery #paint #creative #digitalart #contempoaryart #sculpture#art #artwork #mixedmedia #artcollector #arte #artgallery #multidisciplinary #artist to edit. Next showing here, pv Next Friday !!!!
New Statement A visual artist whose work investigates the social, political and historical aspects of a place and the impact we have on our environments. Houston uses site and object-specific installations to explore connections between the external atmosphere and the internal sensation within places, providing reflections on the language of architecture and the associations we draw through memory and the senses. Houston is a multidisciplinary artist, working predominantly with video, sound and structure, much of her artwork cultivates immersive atmospheres for the spectator, often inviting them to take part or contribute to the work. Using the age old music box, Houston has reappropriated it to explore conflicting emotions of pain and protection, comfort and fear, familiarity and the unknown . The work is at the end of a 6 month project, kindly supported by Arts Council England. Shown as part of City Festival at Newarke Houses (2018) the work since, has gone on to develop and change. Originally looking at the Jack and box has led her to investigate the history of music boxes and the first influential technologies going back to clocks that chime and our desire to measure time by day and night. Houston has contrasted recorded sounds with the rhyme ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’, which dates back to the 1700s and originates in cockney rhyming slang (weasel and stoat for ‘coat’) for the poor at the time pawning their coat for money in hard times. Water is a recurrent theme in her work, perhaps a symbol of creativity and emotion depicting the conflicting feelings of excitement and dread. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England For more info see, leilahoustonart.weebly.com Recent video work
Busy Day at Two Queens (MON) studio with some of the day time regulars and some new people !10/16/2018 Busy Day at Two Queens studio with some of the day time regulars and some new people ! The management hard at work. Gino and Kerry Dan (ALWAYS HARD AT WORK) Tim, Lottie, jack discussing Tims miniture cardboard cowboy sets David who just popping in to discuss tech support with me and introduced to my new neighbour Ella Kate hard at work on a BIG commission (enoyed i took the pic on her lunch break) didnt quite get his name This is me looking at various materials for a new installation
Loving Two Queens! its been a really busy week this week this week with working at Attenbourough Arts Centre, attending crits and meetings at 2 queens and developing the next interactive arts work . monday and wednesday I helped set up classes at Attenborough arts, supporting Marianne with her super educational classes for school groups in the gallery. We were working at the criminal ornamentation exhitbion curated by yinka shonibare (who I saw speak at the opening - proper genuine who makes and curates with a conviction I value and trust) . It been a really lovly to be involved in something, where many young people have never stepped foot in a gallery and showing them what art can be, how anyone from any background can go on to produce art and help them consider the idea of pattern in everyday life whilst looking at the work on display . Wednesday we had a crit at two queens considering exciting new works/ experiamnts / thinking by Khush Kali & Kerry Jackson. we had a really good discusion around freedom in the arts, breaking free, the studio as a safe place, dancing, thinking not thinking, form and the laungage of street signs, sound in art, pattern, optical art. The rest of this week i have been collecting 20 year of photos of my work and adding them to a presentation which I delivered yesterday, all that relates to my current art ideas and plans. Basically i met with 3 other local artists James Chantry (Installation artist) , David Hughes (audio / visual artist areas of projection mapping and virtual reality) and Andrew Johnston (Johnny C) ( audio visual artist areas of max msp, sound tech & digital arts) who id like to meet on a monthly bases to discuss projects, sometimes make an art work of an evening there and then using all our skills (where ever we have met that week ie in a tunnel, at 2 queens, in a park or deralic building), collaborate on certain planned projects or help each other with criteecs on each of our individual projects. I have started the ball rolling discussing how id like to use each of there skills in something I'm working on at the moment- a walk through interactive installation whilst researching 'music boxes' . Repeated patterns in my work seem to be - the maze, music/ sound contained with in a space/ spaces, interactive works, site specific installation where visitors become part of the work, inside and outside, dread and fear, beauty and poetry, projection, screens, nature and other worldly experiences. The meeting went well we are all excited to be working together on projects - i do have have a future plan for a event with some of the ideas and projects we come up with.......watch this space!!!!! work by Johnny C |
Leila Houston
Leila Houston (London, 1977) is a visual artist whose work investigates the social, political and historical aspects of a place. Categories |