The Masked Painter Returned
Just a quick note and a few photos: I did not enter Den Frie’s Open Autumn Exhibition (Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling) this year because my absolute biggest art challenge that I could have undertaken was rejected in the first round – my Otto Frello portrait. So when that happens, you know that this is not a place […]
Free Cultural Spaces, Art and a birthday in Christiania
I was involved in an event called Symposium for Free Cultural Spaces, which was held in Christiania this year. I brought the paintings I had painted in front of the parliament in Copenhagen to the venue and added an installation made from empty tea light holders. They have been sewn together and painted in hope’s […]
Art Auction at St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh!
AN ART AUCTION WITH A DIFFERENCE – LEAH MERETE ROBB What’s up for Auction? Over the years, I have varied my approach to art-making quite dramatically, ranging from figure drawings to psychological portraiture, from film-making to political street art. The auction revisits my journey there, with works up for purchase going as far […]
A Dialogue for Peace – 4th – 26th April in Christiania, Gallopperiet, Denmark
There are five days left to see an exhibition I have curated called A Dialogue for Peace. It has been an eventful couple of weeks with input from various artists all dealing with the subject of peace. Within this theme come knowledge and understanding, justice and love. http://www.gallopperiet.dk/?cat=12 This painting was painted outside the […]
Protestaktion udenfor Den Frie/Protest Action outside Den Frie
I det Røde Hjørne “En ung håbefuld kunstner (med maske) stod udenfor til efterårsudstillingens1 fernisering og malede et billede. Her fortæller den skotsk/danske multikunstner hvorfor.” Hekla Hekla2 Den 11. september husker jeg tilbage på forrige år, hvor jeg indsendte fem biografiske portrætter til KE. Alt hvad jeg indsendte blev afvist uden mulighed for tilbagemelding. […]
Emotion series 2
After the Frelloist portrait it has been hard to get back into painting. Painting The Frelloist/Frelloisten drained me because it was like cracking a really, really hard code, or like spewing everything you are and have into one performanc,e or like fighting goliath. Nothing but your best will do. Regardless of the reception of the work, […]
Fernisering, Foredrag og Underholdning nu på torsdag 28. aug i Filmby Aarhus!
FERNISERING: SKÆVE EKSISTENSER PÅ OLIE – 19 PORTRÆTTER FRA CHRISTIANIA. FERNISERING OG FOREDRAG I FILMBY AARHUS TORSDAG 28. AUGUST. Leah Robb, Filmby Aarhus og Mediedokken inviterer til fernisering og foredrag i Filmbyen 23. Torsdag 28. august Foredrag kl. 15.30 Fernisering kl. 16.00 Underholdning: Ocean van Vleck, der selv er gammel Christianit Leah Merete Robb er […]
Storkespringvandet
I went out in the baking heat to paint the ‘stork fountain’ known as Storkespringvandet, in the center of Copenhagen. I started by smearing leftover paint from my previous painting onto the 38x46cm canvas and then pulling the paint off with a cloth where the highlights were to be. Paint on, paint off, paint on, […]
Sketching Wrecks
I went out to paint a couple of days ago and made a conscious decision to paint something because i found it interesting, not because there would be a market for it. I came across a capsized boat next to Refshalevej near Christiania. I thought, there’s a good motif with difficult angles, curves and foreshortening. I’ll […]
Making Faces
I was visiting my friend and colleague, Otto Frello. I had a lump of clay with me and made a couple of clay faces while chatting to him. They were a bit of fun and I feel like making a few more expressive nonsense faces 🙂 Watch this space: […]