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, Walsall, UK) is an artist led by heartache. Hickey uses English Romantic poetry and auto-fiction as a starting point for rhythmic verse, typographic painting and gravestones. Her work is influenced by classical American cinematography, performative femininity, and Christian and Druidic ritual surrounding death.
Hickey currently produces ‘Emotional Outbursts’, a 'part-fact, part-fiction otherworld of love letters' that merges free verse poetry and Early Modern English language with contextual research, which has manifested in print form. She has recently been awarded Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP), Arts Council England (ACE), to develop ‘Tentative Press’ as an independent publisher, and is recipient of the Sir Whitworth Wallis Fellowship at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMaG).
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