Leah Hickey
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’.
In 2025 Leah was awarded ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ (DYCP) funding, Arts Council England (ACE) to develop publishing imprint Tentative Press. She is the current recipient of the Sir Whitworth Wallis Fellowship 2025-26 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMaG), where she is researching the material processes and histories of Victorian-era Valentines’ cards.