Lesley Punton is a visual artist working across media with an interest in text, photography, film, painting and drawing. Her work is centered around how we experience (and translate our experience of) landscape, and much of her work emerges through the act of walking and spending extended periods within remote places.
Recent works have focussed on aspects of time and duration in relation to place - the intimacy of lived time in contrast with deep time or geological time. Her practice necessitates spending much time "in the field", particularly mountain climbing in Scotland (where she has almost completed a round of the Munro's) and in Europe.
She has shown her work in venues across the UK, and internationally in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Slovakia, Australia, USA, and has been representedmore...
BA (Hons.) Fine Art, 1st Class, (Drawing & Painting) Glasgow School of Art, 1990
Masters of Fine Art (MFA) - Glasgow School of Art, 1992
PG Cert Learning & Teaching (Distinction) - University of the Arts London, 2010
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2003 - present.
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1 | New Paintings (solo exhibition) | 863 | |
2 | Upland Birds | 753 | 47 |
3 | R O O M Editions | 494 | |
4 | Series of silverpoint drawings. | 455 | 101 |
5 | Revisiting An Caisteal | 428 | 50 |
6 | ROOM collaborators | 422 | 69 |
7 | "Back to the Things Themselves" | 398 | 16 |
8 | Lesley Punton & Olwen Shone | 397 | |
9 | Lesley Punton (solo exhibition) | 340 | |
10 | Experiments in Situated Knowledge | 332 | 84 |