David Hoyle & Lee Baxter : Two artists/friends in Lockdown

Veteran Brit performance artist David Hoyle who we feature as often as we can has just mounted an exhibit of his artwork with his best friend for over the past 30 years, the photographer Lee Baxter. The two have a lot in common besides living in the same postcode in the very queer-friendly city of Manchester UK.

But their individual work styles couldn’t be more different, as they found out when practically living together during the Covid Lockdown

“All the work on show has been produced by David and I in the last year or so,” Baxter told AnOther Magazine. “We all had to stay local so I started photographing what can only be described as a secret garden near a scrapyard in Ancoats where I live.”

Hoyle, on the other hand, looked to the domestic for inspiration: “A lot of my painted collages feature stuff that usually ends in the bin like food packaging,” he says. “It’s a reminder that we are all consumers.”

Baxter believes that the difference in his and Hoyle’s styles is “interesting as these works wouldn’t usually be hung together but it shows how differently David and I channeled our creativity in a very difficult period.”

David Hoyle x Lee Baxter runs until 19 September 2021 and is organized by Friends of Dorothy.at 
Castlefield, Manchester 

Free tickets can be booked here.

PS You may also like to check out this video that Hoyle and Baxter made

https:// queerguru.com/the-anarchic-humor-of-the-iconic-david-hoyle/