MALCOLM LEYLAND : INTERVIEW

by Kailas on Feb 14, 2014

WEAVING WORDS TOGETHER, YOU’LL SPEAK MOST HAPPILY WHEN SKILLED JUXTAPOSITION RENEWS A COMMON WORD

 Horace, Ars Poetica.

Skilled juxtaposition, whether in words or imagery, is the remit of the artist. Presenting the known in unknown ways, teasing out the unfamiliar from the familiar. For Malcolm Leyland, an earlier career in commercial photography lacked the opportunity to apply those visual twists and turns to subject matter.

Eschewing that commercial direction gives Leyland the freedom to take his work into more expressive areas, using composite photography to address that conundrum most intriguing to visual artists throughout time – the rendering of three dimensional reality and human perception onto two-dimensional images.

‘…part of my curiosity/investigation is to look beyond the conventional ‘single viewpoint / stolen moment’ framework as typically defined by the camera. For many, the ‘single viewpoint / stolen moment’ is the end of the road in creative terms. 

For me, it is just the beginning.’

Malcolm Leyland talks to Trebuchet’s Kailas Elmer