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.
I am an artist and writer informed by heartache, a term I use to mediate between grief, love, limerence and loneliness. I explore this through a diaristic research journal, Emotional Outbursts (2022 - present), a collaborative memorial engraving practice, and typographic design. My work is emotionally led and influenced by women on screen, Romantic thought and Christian morality.
I have recently been awarded ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ (DYCP) funding, Arts Council England (ACE) to develop publishing imprint Tentative Press, and currently volunteer at The Winterbourne Press. I am recipient of the Sir Whitworth Wallis Fellowship 2025-26 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMaG), where I am researching the material processes and histories of Victorian-era Valentines’ cards.
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