Lesley Cherry is an artists based in Belfast. In 2011 she completed an MFA at University of Ulster, Belfast. Cherry’s previous practice includes co-ordinating and producing public artworks within working class areas, exploring and pushing the boundaries of the community’s memories through public art, re-imaging paramilitary murals and memorials. She received an ACNI SIAP award in 2005, a Tyrone Guthrie Bursary 2007, has shown widely throughout Ireland and is a member of Creative Exchange Artists Studios, Belfast.

This is a new project building on the Agricultural Show Residencies that Artlink has been developing.

There will be a six week Artilnk Studio Residency in Summer 2012 within which new works will be researched and produced acting as local development of the artist’s community engaged practice.

The artist’s Studio Residency will include several open studio and workshop days.

Lesley Cherry’s eclectic practice draws on issues raised through domestic settings, nostalgia, memory and class. Through video, installation and painting, Cherry explores the tension and hypocrisy of nostalgia and memory, juxtaposed with the reality of the situation remembered. There is a humour to the work which often masks the more serious issues being addressed and an element of performance in her very personal, yet far reaching and accessible work.

Cherry’s previous practice includes co-ordinating and producing public artworks within working class areas, exploring and pushing the boundaries of the community’s memories through public art, re-imaging murals and memorials.