Sunday night movies - Leanne Shapton

Sunday Night Movies features Leanne Shapton's watercolours of resonant moments in black and white cinema. Selecting a brief fragment of each chosen film, she creates an indelible image that is both a hand-painted movie still and a personal response to a fleeting celluloid moment. - - Together the 78 paintings create a valentine to the world of cinema. Shapton's journey through film history becomes a wistful celebration of the subtle moments in stories, which can often slip by unnoticed. What could be a simple title, still life, or portrait of an actor becomes both illusive and allusive through the medium of these personal paintings. - - Shapton's bestselling Petit Livre book The Native Trees Of Canada took a decades-old government catalogue and reworked it, using bold colours and stark shapes to represent the trees in all their majestic glory. The book was a sleeper hit, and went through multiple printings. With Sunday Night Movies she brings her love of film to light, and the effect is restrained and fanciful, familiar and all new.