By Leanne Shapton
Sunday Night Movies features Leanne Shapton's watercolours of resonant moments in black and white cinema. Selecting a brief fragment of each chosen film, she creates an indelible image that is both a hand-painted movie still and a personal response to a fleeting celluloid moment. Together the 78 paintings create a valentine to the world of cinema. Shapton s journey through film history becomes a wistful celebration of the subtle moments in stories, which can often slip by unnoticed. What could be a simple title, still life, or portrait of an actor becomes both illusive and allusive through the medium of these personal paintings.
Shapton s bestselling Petit Livre book The Native Trees Of Canada took a decades-old government catalogue and reworked it, using bold colours and stark shapes to represent the trees in all their majestic glory. The book was a sleeper hit, and went through multiple printings. With Sunday Night Movies she brings her love of film to light, and the effect is restrained and fanciful, familiar and all new.
Drawn & Quarterly
Softback
96 pages