Lesley Foxcroft Explained

Lesley Foxcroft
Birth Place:	Sheffield, England
Field:	Sculpture, installation art

Lesley Foxcroft (born 1949)^[1] is an English sculptor working mostly in MDF, paper, and card. She studied at the Camberwell School of Fine Art during 1970–1974 and has gone on to be part of several solo and group exhibitions.^[2]

Style

Many of her works consist of pieces of MDF, paper and over such "everyday objects" attached to the walls of the gallery space with simple fixings such as bolts and washers. Of her style she has said that “I like the idea that the uncomplicated has a purpose: that the material does not give a sculpture its value, it is the artist that does'."

Select solo exhibitions

Foxcroft has held several solo exhibitions including the Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf,^[3] the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1975,^[4] A arte Invernizzi, Milan in 2002,^[5]

Work on permanent display

Her piece "Stackwork" (1993) is part of the permanent collection at the Pier Arts Centre, in Orkney. It was donated to them by the Contemporary Art Society.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lesley Foxcroft . Walker Art Center . 14 August 2021.
2. Web site: Lesley Foxcroft – British, b. 1949 . Annely Juda Fine Art . www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk . UK .
3. Lesley Foxcroft-Works in MDF-Annely Juda Fine Art Catalogue (2010)
4. Web site: Not found . www.aarteinvernizzi.it . Italy . 11 August 2021 . 29 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129024740/http://www.aarteinvernizzi.it/exhibition.php?id_mostra=16 . dead .
5. Web site: Lesley Foxcroft - Biography.
6. Web site: Collection . www.pierartscentre.com .