Horace Lindezey (b.1966)

 

Horace Lindezey has been a practising artist for over 30 years. He is a skilled illustrator, textile artist, sculptor and ceramicist. 

Artist Biography

Much of Lindezey’s world depicts the world around him, his family and memories of his childhood growing up in Hulme and Moss Side, Manchester.

 

Lindezey’s is one of 6 children. His father was a carpenter and mother a seamstress, she especially had a huge influence on his life. He recalls sitting and watching her create bridesmaids dresses in the living room when he was younger, watching her sew on the beads one by one. He was not allowed to touch the dresses at the time, but years later when creating textile work those memories stayed with him and this intricacy is evident in his work too.

 

Lindezey has always had a fascination with weddings, christenings and funerals, he refers to them as, ‘special occasional days’.  He enjoys getting dressed up in a suit and tie and owns 8 suits, all of which have a story about where they were bought, by whom and for what occasions.

 

Much of his work in recent years has explored these themes with the main focus being on weddings and in particular wedding dresses, which he has made in fabric and then dipped in porcelain. This itself has been like a ceremony with Lindezey reciting the words of wedding ceremony he has been to whilst making.

 

Exhibitions

London Art Fair 2021 (exhibiting with Outside In), online exhibition, 20th-31st January 2021

 

The Manchester Open, HOME Manchester, January – March 2020

 

PERSPECTIVES, various Greater Manchester venues, October 2018 – February 2019

 

HEY CLLAY PRRIVATE VIEW, Venture Arts, 23rd & 25th March 2018

 

Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making, National touring Exhibition by Craftspace & Outside In 2016-2017

 

OutsiderXchanges Exhibition, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 2016

 

OutsiderXchanges ,The Manchester Contemporary, Old Granada Studios 2016

 

International Summit for Learning Disabled Artists, Project Ability, Trongate 103, Glasgow, March 2015

 

MADE, Venture Arts Studio Show, People’s History Museum, Manchester 2015

 

The Art of Nature, Venture Arts Studio Show, The Lowry, Salford Quays 2014

 

Articulate, Venture Arts Studio Show,  The Lowry, Salford Quays 2013