Leslie Thompson
b. 1970
Portrait of Leslie Thompson
Leslie Thompson has a highly developed style, drawing both from memory and through live observational drawings. He depicts scenes from television and film from 1970–1990. His drawings are punctuated with fascinating anecdotes from film, music and TV and he also has a vast collection of superheroes, which he binds and protects as he incorporates them into selected artworks.
Thompson has been a regular artist at Venture Arts studios for over twenty years and through this has been able to extend his innate illustrative gifts into stitch, ceramics, animation and printmaking. He has shown his work widely regionally, nationally and internationally.
BSL / About the Artist
Interpreted by Deaf artist Rebecca Vaughan
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Subtitled Film
BSL Film
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Venture Arts is an award-winning visual arts charity based in Hulme, Manchester. Our vision is a world in which people with learning disabilities are empowered, celebrated, included and valued in the arts, culture and society. Our mission is to shape a new cultural landscape where people with learning disabilities reach their potential as artists, curators, critics, audiences, participants and advocates.