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.
Image courtesy of Tegen Kimbley, 2026.
Leah Hickey (b. 1996, Walsall) is an artist and writer struck by 'heartache', a term she uses to wade through the spectrum of grief. Hickey translates these experiences through confessional writing, calligraphy, and heritage crafts 'at risk' of extinction, such as letterpress. Her work is emotionally led and influenced by Romantic thought, Christian morality and women on film.
In 2025, Hickey was awarded Arts Council England (ACE) funding to develop Tentative Press. She was also recipient of the Sir Whitworth Wallis Fellowship (2025-26) with Birmingham Museums Trust, researching the social and material histories of Victorian-era Valentines. Through 2026-28, Hickey is studying MA by Research in Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, for which she has received the UK Academic Achievement Scholarship.
info[at]leahhickey[dot]com
Copyright © 2026 Leah Hickey. All rights reserved.