LESLIE PETERS shares beautifully intricate and ornate talismans

> LESLIE PETERS: talismans for the home

Opens March 28th 6-9pm

At Fleishman Gallery from March 28th - May 1st

Talismans For The Home is a series of small sculptural objects, created from items found and collect

ed within nature and the domestic environment. Each talisman is formed from sacred objects: domestic items imbued with meaning. For example, the artist’s great aunt’s spoon collection, her paternal grandmother’s silverware, relics collected from her maternal grandmother’s abandoned home, objects discarded or lost, found on beaches, in the streets, at the local goodwill and garage sales, gifted items, bits of glass and stones. These contemporary artifacts are combined with other cherished items found within nature; sticks, feathers, bones, seeds, shells and are ultimately bound together using twine, wire, leather and thread. Essentially these small sculptures are woven curios that contain the combined recollections and emotions of the individual artifact and the “charge” and intention generated by the artist through the creation process.

Toronto based artist Leslie Peters has been actively working in video, multi-channel installation, as well as curating exhibitions and coordinating cultural events for the past 12 years. Alongside her video practice she has been producing sculptural works that have rarely been exhibited.

Leslie was the featured Spotlight Canadian Artist at the 2004 Images Festival in Toronto where a retrospective of her work was shown and her installation becoming was premiered at the WARC gallery (Womens’ Art Resource Centre). The retrospective then toured to Peru where she presented her work in Lima and Cusco at the VAE8 Festival and in the fall of 2006 the retrospective was presented at Anthology Film Archives, New York.