About

Artist Statement

Sydney McLeod, located in Tulsa, OK, is a charcoal artist, draftsman and bookbinder.

After ten plus years of drawing, three years of art school, and three state moves they’ve settled in Tulsa to make art and build community. They have a particular interest in the rich dark tones and delicate value shifts achieved in charcoal drawing. Since 2017, their work has focused on the visual language of chronic pain and invisible illness as it coincides with their experience. In more recent work they focus on the complicated dichotomy of the body as the epicenter of human experience, both in pain and pleasure.

Both drawings and books craft a language of suffering through mark-making, text, self-portraiture and abstraction of the body in a hope to understand, and perhaps even exorcize the emotional toil of a chronic condition.

Contact Information

Email me at haphazard.artz@gmail.com

Images Courtesy of Molly Shanahan: https://www.instagram.com/moldyshan/