Arrière-Garde Blog
Our artist Peter McLeish is a visual artist and a composer who merges his scientific training and knowledge to produce paintings and sound art inspired in the natural world.
He was taught painting by legendary Canadian painters and Fine Arts Professors Yves Gaucher and Guido Molinari. McLeish holds a BA Fine Arts from Concordia University: Montreal, Quebec, and a MA Fine Arts from University of Guelph: Guelph, Ontario. He has been awarded several research grants and sponsorships, has published extensively, and has a long list of interviews. He has engaged in film presentations, multimedia exhibitions and lecture tours, including at the prestigious University of Oxford and University of Cambridge in the UK. In 2003, McLeish Red Sprites research led to a collaboration with Dr. Colin Price from University of Tel Aviv on the previous NASA Space Shuttle Columbia's MEIDEX mission.
But while some old masters fetishized the male body in barely coded ways, the idea of an openly gay artist expressing his desires from a queer perspective was only born in the last century. Since then, gay perspectives on the male body found their way into visual culture, though they’ve typically been considered taboo or hypersexual, or even vaguely pornographic.
However at Arrière-Garde, we think that art is the ultimate expression of freedom, liberation and a powerful tool for counterculture, and our Brazilian artist Marcelo Amorim and his work prove our stance. We are proud to sell gay art oriented art online, and to offer queer collectors a way of expressing themselves and their way of life through the art they buy.