Leah Hickey is a visual artist whose primary concerns are intimacy, voyeurism, sex as self-harm, heartbreak and the role of Woman as caregiver, and is informed by filmic and pictorial pornography.
Leah Hickey (b. 1996) is an artist and writer primarily responding to love and loss. Drawing upon auto-fiction and Romantic verse as a foundation, Hickey's practice is underpinned by classical American cinematography, gender as performance and Christian theology surrounding death. The artist's work is conducive to profound emotion.
Hickey currently produces Emotional Outbursts, a 'part-fact, part-fiction otherworld of love letters' which integrates free verse poetry and Early Modern English with contextual research. The artist recently published Grief (In Few Forms), an anthology of art writing on sex and death, and has released a physical edition of Emotional Outbursts in 2023.