About the Artist
Leah Sims is an artist and educator based in East Anglia. Graduating from Norwich University of the Arts in 2018, Sims has spent several years working within the early years sector as an Atilierista and Early Years Practitioner.
Sims’ undergraduate and postgraduate works are very figurative – faces and figures loom from their canvases, exploring what it is to be a viewer and to be viewed. Throughout her work, there is an attention on the medium itself, exploring material, surface, movement and texture. Her paintings never shy from what they are, maintaining a physicality that points to the maker.
Currently, Sims’s practice concerns process more than product. With very young children acting as collaborators within the work, she endeavors to show an unhindered, unbiased approach to making, exploring how creativity begins, and how it can be nurtured. As part of her training as an Atilierista within a Reggio Emilia inspired early years setting, Sims explores the world of ‘provocation’ within her work with very young children, providing unconventional materials and pieces of art as offerings for children to interact with and create with freely.
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