Sean Leslie Lookbook
Each image is an exploration of gender-fluid identity. I steal the dresses and gestures of femininity and allow a quiet anarchy to guide my visual language. The white is a metaphor for both knowingness and innocence, a veil drawn across my own nakedness; it can also be read as a masturbatory echo. I corset myself in whale bone and think of Melville's leviathan whose chaste white mouth appears "papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as bridal satins."
Sean Leslie Quinn Studied textile design as a mature student, attending Loughborough College of Art, he graduated with First Class Honours in 1997.For his final year, alongside a collection of hand woven silks, he submitted a dissertation detailing the significance of the eternal feminine in relationship to the poetry of Aleksander Blok, a personal paper drawing upon a wider interest in Russian Symbolist Poetry. Sean combines a passion for costume with an awareness of the physical presence of dress. His work explores the connection between creativity and wish fulfilment, both in language and in photography. Web: seanlesliequinn.com Email: seanlesliequinn@yahoo.co.uk