'Nature and Découvertes'

Seriously Hazardous Art  Gallery in Paris affectionately known as S.H.A.G, will be showing my new Wire Frame series and the Boxhill series from 28th March to 15th April. So should you find yourself in Paris in the Spring........

NO HORSES WERE KILLED FOR THIS EXHIBITION
a nod to the horse meat crisis in Europe no doubt!

The group show is themed around Nature & Discovery

Gallery : http://s-h-a-g.fr

Check out work by other artists in the show;   

Coralie Barbion http://s-h-a-g.fr/coraliebarbion

Rohan Graeffly http://s-h-a-g.fr/rohangraeffly  

Romain de Souza  http://s-h-a-g.fr/romaindesouza
Thierry Ledé http://s-h-a-g.fr/thierrylede
Olivier Rouault http://s-h-a-g.fr/olivierrouault
Arnaud Marullaz http://s-h-a-g.fr/marullaz

I don't think le chien is part of the exhibition. I could be wrong!

Wire Frames

A new series of images from an ongoing project.

"These images originate from what I see as the blandness of CGI and it's effects on still life photography. There seems to be no place in computer generated imagery for chance happenings, or rough edges."

 "They are created using bronze chicken wire, suspended and then allowed to revolve. With the slightest tweaks of the wire new forms evolve and I let them spin and photograph them as they turn. It's a very organic process, and strangely hypnotic too. At first they appear to be computer generated wire meshes, nothing special, but on closer inspection it becomes apparent that they are handmade and this for me is where the interest lies."

DuJour Winter

Leon was asked by photo editor Etta Meyer to shoot for the Winter issue of Du Jour magazine.

Cosmetics and Beauty story

'Who's Having Botox' story

Breguet advertorial

Du Jour

Leon was asked by photo editor Etta Meyer to shoot for the premier issue of Du Jour magazine.

Leon worked with Beyonce´'s personal manicurist

Lisa Logan to create an image for the story 'Next-Level Nails'.

Still Live group exhibition

Kellogg's for Leo Burnett USA

Stephanie Summers, Art Director at Leo Burnett Chicago came to New York to shoot a defeated donut ad for Kellogg's new Special K protein cereal.

Hell of a rig for a donut!

Food Stylist Paul Grimes samples the product

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More For British Airways

BBH Asia Pacific asked Leon to shoot a print campaign using push-pin art to create life-size images of iconic destinations in the US for British Airways.

'The campaign captures the scale of US destinations accessible to passengers flying British Airways from India - en route to the US via London. Award-winning artist Wesley West used over six thousand regular push-pins to create the images, painstakingly choreographing each pin to allow for an arresting 3D effect.

Renowned still life photographer and long time BBH friend Leon Steele then brought the three six - foot tall images to life - creating movement and depth - to the iconic Statue of Liberty, the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge and a Rodeo moment.'

(Extract from Campaign Brief Asia)

Click here to see time lapse footage of Wesley at work

It was great to be working with Wez again in NYC

The artwork was created in a distorted 3D perspective in order that it appeared

correct to the viewer in 2D

Le Artiste

Associate Creative Director: Andy Grant BBH Singapore

Print Producer: Lesley Chelvan

Producer: Karys McEwen

Retoucher: Don Russo