About

Leslie Drennan is a sculptor and visual artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work investigates our attachment to place and the creation of sanctuary amidst the social and climatic fragility we are collectively experiencing. Recycled and discarded materials often make their way into the work as they convey the active transformation these materials are having in our lives. By directly addressing her own consumption habits with the larger story of environmental and social change happening at a global scale, she grapples with both grief and hope for the future.

Her current projects are a comprehensive analysis of the fabricated ideals of Southern conservative families and the complicated emotions she feels towards home as a physical place and conceptual idea. Each work in this series unearths a new memory or association, as if to retrace her steps in order to find a different way forward. Leslie relies on intuitive placemaking to widen the definition of home by assembling and collaging different techniques and documents together. This work is about more than the mundane horrors of suburban life or a nostalgia for a misremembered past (although it is about that a little). It is a critical exploration into the suburban setting of her childhood.

Leslie graduated with a BS in Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2016 and is currently completing an MFA in Sculpture at Georgia State University. She was selected by the Welch Foundation at Georgia State to participate in a residency at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in May of 2023 and her work has been exhibited regionally at the Atlanta Contemporary, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College, Swan Coach House Gallery, Eyedrum, Blue Heron Nature Preserve, and Gallery One in Ellensburg, Washington.