About

Leslie Drennan is a sculptor and visual artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work negotiates the modern complexities of home, family, and identity, investigating how our sense of self is shaped by the spaces we inhabit and the evolving pressures of the contemporary world. Through sculptures, drawings, and installations, the artist pursues a dialogue between the personal and universal, so the concept of "home" can be defined as more than a place of either comfort or dislocation. Because identity is in constant flux as we age, home takes on a more expansive meaning in her work as she more consciously chooses where and with whom to make a home.

Through intuitive placemaking, Leslie widens her definition of home by assembling and collaging different techniques and documents together. Material refuse is often used in the work to suggest the tension between industry’s power and the fragility of modern life. Her goal is to traverse the emotional and ideological distance between her conservative upbringing and the intentionally contrasting life she is creating for her young daughter, reimagining the myth she created about home as a child herself.

Leslie graduated with a BS in Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2016 and completed an MFA in Sculpture at Georgia State University in 2025. 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 at the Atlanta Contemporary, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College, Swan Coach House Gallery, Echo Contemporary Art, Eyedrum, Blue Heron Nature Preserve, and Gallery One in Ellensburg, Washington.