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 struck by 'heartache', a term I use to wade through the spectrum of grief. I reconcile with these experiences through a confessional writing practice 'Emotional Outbursts', humanist typographic design, and heritage crafts 'at risk' of extinction. My work is emotionally led and influenced Romantic thought, Christian morality and women on film.
In 2025, I was awarded ACE funding to develop publishing imprint Tentative Press, and was recipient of the Sir Whitworth Wallis Fellowship with Birmingham Museums Trust, researching the social and material histories of Victorian-era Valentines’ cards. Through 2026-28, I am studying MA by Research in Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.
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