Leanna Moran

Why I Paint Thousands of Circles

Why I Paint Thousands of Circles explores psychological barriers and multilayered themes that stem from a single horrific event that involved Moran’s father and his brother. The artist collates information, photos and constructs an ar(t)chaeological archive where family photos, product imagery, together with newspaper clips to form units of a historical and psychological mind map. The exposition becomes an auto-ethnographical exploration of mid 90's working class North West London. The repetitive painting process, exposed and documented in the exposition, functions as transformative method, where ambiguous feelings of a violent upbringing are directed towards the creation of a visual system with an inherent logic – “creating some kind of beauty out of ugliness.”

Biography

Leanna Moran is an artist reflectively uncovering intensely personal narratives, using these findings to create work. Growing up in a rough Council Estate in North West London underpin a dark and gritty foundation that continues to thread throughout her practice. Her watercolour paintings born from cognitive intricate circle making have become an obsessive coping mechanism when processing memories, good or bad… mostly bad. Moran currently studies for a Masters Degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, London.