Installation

Air

Each work involves aspects of drawing and intends to further engage the individual through their immersion into the transformed space. Providing a speculative approach to a weighty subject matter, rather than providing answers about our... More

Drawing

Bud

While in Florence, Italy, for a residency, I documented the weird and wonderful plants I was observing. My drawings exist as a thought process being instinctively completed and come from a desire to understand nature that my determined self... More

Installation

Earth

The sizeable lightweight silk works that are hand-drawn and then digitally printed, speak to the movement and colours of earth, water, air, and fire. They also emphasize the elements of mystery and secrecy that I so often encounter while exploring... More

Installation

Fire

The potential of repairing our current environment by immersing individuals in a created, physical place works towards welcoming new relationships. These new relationships can teach us as humans, even more, when we open ourselves up to learning... More

Drawing

Iris

Being experimental and investigative, this is a medium that is known for its exploratory qualities and how it thrives in lending itself as a research method. With distinct roots within fine art, design, and architecture, drawing also has a... More

Drawing

Shoot

Throughout my time at OCAD University, I have used drawing as a method of recording for observation and as a tool to communicate information, including memory and emotion. Perhaps what has been the most crucial, is that I have been able to use... More

Installation

Water

“To become fully human,” Weber states, “we need the relationship to that which is emphatically non-human: the interbeing with other living beings. We have to become animal to truly feel what it means to be humans, we have to become plant, we have... More

Work by

Laurel McLeod

Drawing

“Earthly Delights: Thinking Through Drawing makes sense of the different ways through which people remain part of rather than separate from the natural world, a world that often goes overlooked. I...” [More]

Artwork Collection

All Artworks

Air

Each work involves aspects of drawing and intends to further engage the individual through their immersion into the transformed space. Providing a speculative approach to a weighty subject matter, rather than providing answers about our... More

Bud

While in Florence, Italy, for a residency, I documented the weird and wonderful plants I was observing. My drawings exist as a thought process being instinctively completed and come from a desire to understand nature that my determined self... More

Earth

The sizeable lightweight silk works that are hand-drawn and then digitally printed, speak to the movement and colours of earth, water, air, and fire. They also emphasize the elements of mystery and secrecy that I so often encounter while exploring... More

Fire

The potential of repairing our current environment by immersing individuals in a created, physical place works towards welcoming new relationships. These new relationships can teach us as humans, even more, when we open ourselves up to learning... More

Iris

Being experimental and investigative, this is a medium that is known for its exploratory qualities and how it thrives in lending itself as a research method. With distinct roots within fine art, design, and architecture, drawing also has a... More

Shoot

Throughout my time at OCAD University, I have used drawing as a method of recording for observation and as a tool to communicate information, including memory and emotion. Perhaps what has been the most crucial, is that I have been able to use... More

Water

“To become fully human,” Weber states, “we need the relationship to that which is emphatically non-human: the interbeing with other living beings. We have to become animal to truly feel what it means to be humans, we have to become plant, we have... More

Work by

Laurel McLeod

“Earthly Delights: Thinking Through Drawing makes sense of the different ways through which people remain part of rather than separate from the natural world, a world that often goes overlooked. I...” [More]