Lesley Punton
Lesley Punton
- Head of Fine Art Photography
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4876-5398- Job Title
- Head of Fine Art Photography
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- L.Punton@gsa.ac.uk
- Contact Number
- 0141 353 4683
- Professional Address
- The Glasgow School of Art, Stow Building, 43 Shamrock Street, Glasgow, G4 9LD
Biography
Lesley Punton is a visual artist working in text, photography, film, painting and drawing. Her work explores how we translate our lived experiences of landscape and place.
Much of her work emerges through the act of walking and spending extended periods within remote places, with an especial focus on mountain climbing. 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.
She has shown her work in the UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Slovakia, Australia, USA & China and has been represented by 511 Gallery, New York, and ROOM Artspace, London.
She is an active member of and contributor to the research group, Reading Landscape at GSA.
Research Interests
Landscape, Wilderness, Mountains, Scotland, Deep Time, Geology, Forests, Light & Dark, Liminality, Twilight, Embodiment, Weather, Walking, Autoethnography, The North, Arctic, Birds, Geopoetics, Drawing, Text, Painting, Photography, Film,
Teaching
In her current role as Head of the Fine Art Photography Department at GSA, as well as managing the day to day running of the course Lesley also teaches in the photography department and currently works primarily with final year undergraduate students, co-leading the delivery of the 4th year. She has been a member of staff at GSA since 2000, and has been Head of Dept. since 2013.
Latest Additions
- Punton, Lesley (2026) "Les Périades".
- Punton, Lesley (2025) "Midwinter".
- Bird, Nicky, Brind, Susan, Carter, Justin, Evans, Brian, Elkovich, Carol, Greated, Marianne, Harold, Jim, Hooper, Alan, McMullan, Shauna, Mersinis, Michael, Punton, Lesley, Thomson, Amanda and Wall, Gina (2023) Pedagogy of Place - A Field Guide to Reading Landscape for Artists, Architects, & Designers. Intellect Books, Bristol.
- Punton, Lesley (2022) The Hide.
- Punton, Lesley (2020) Various works shown in "Sharing a View: Contemporary Art from Glasgow".
- Punton, Lesley (2020) GSA; Then & Now. https://www.gsathenandnow.com/, 7 May – 6 July 2020
- Punton, Lesley (2018) "The Hide" & "A Darkening".
- Punton, Lesley (2018) "Collection" and other pieces in a body of work related to geology and time.
- Punton, Lesley (2018) "Last Light, First light" and related works.
- Punton, Lesley (2018) Below, the rocks plunged into darkness. Studio Pavilion Gallery, House for an Art Lover, 26 May - 15 July 2018
