Biography
Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK; Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK; Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China; Heilongjiang Museum of Printmaking, China and University of Bath, UK
Awards
Bewick Prize, Society of Wood Engravers, 2024
Climate Art Installation Award, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2022
Print with a Point Prize, SWE, 2021
Peter Reddick Bursary for Innovation in Relief Printmaking, Spike Print Studio, Bristol, 2018-19
Visions of Science Bursary Award, Edge Arts Bath, 2018
Rawlinson Bequest, 2017
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' Print Prize: Hawthorn Printmakers' Prize, 2016
National Original Print exhibition: The John Purcell Paper Prize, 2016
SWE's 79th Annual exhibition: The Rachel Reckitt Open Prize (joint winner), 2016
SWE's 71st Annual exhibition: The Rachel Reckitt Prize for a wood engraver under 35, 2009
Selected recent exhibitions
Don’t Give Them Fire! UWE, Bristol, 2024
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists’ Print Prize 2024
Alone Together, touring print installation 2022-23 (Impact conference, Bristol; Canwood Gallery, Hereford; MAKE Southwest, Bovey Tracey; Oriel Môn, Anglesey)
Small But Mighty, Bankside Gallery, London, 2023
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 2023
Split Graphic, IMPACT 12, The Island, Bristol, 2022
New Prints 2021/Summer: Lonely Hearts, International Print Center New York, 2021
MakeReady, SGCI Printmaking Conference, online, 2021
Bristol Artists’ Book Event (BABE), Arnolfini, online, 2021
Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 2021
The World is a Handkerchief, Blackburn 20|20 Gallery, NYC, 2020
Analogue Interference solo exhibition, Spike Print Studio, Bristol, 2019
RE Masters: Relief, Bankside Gallery, London, 2019
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, 2019
Beyond 72dpi, the postdigitalprintmaker, SGCI Texas, USA, 2019
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells, 2019
Print: A Catalyst for Social Change? Bury Art Gallery & Museum, 2019
V&A Museum, London: Print of the Month, 2018
New Prints 2018, International Print Center, New York, USA, 2018
Collaborative Artists' Books, IMPACT 10, Santander, Spain, 2018
Visions of Science, Edge Arts, Bath University, 2018
Interruptions, Felios Foundation, Athens, Greece, 2018
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, 2018
Print Prize, RBSA, Birmingham, 2018
MAMDP Mini Print Exhibition, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2018
Wood Engraving Invitational, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, 2017
The Age of Enlightenment, project and touring exhibition funded by The Arts Council, The Baring Foundation, Devon Guild of Craftsmen and DAISI, 2017
Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, 2017
RE Masters: One-off, Bankside Gallery, London 2017
Royal West of England Autumn Open and Drawn Biennial, Bristol, 2017
Talks
AI-generated art at Don’t Give Them Fire symposium, UWE, Bristol, 2024
Regular programme of hosting artist’s talks for Spike Print Studio: Lucy May Schofield, Ian Chamberlain, Sumi Perera and Catriona Gourlay, Assistant Curator, Words & Image, V&A, ongoing
Artist’s Talk, Spike Print Studio, 2022
In Conversation with Hilary Paynter, Northern Print, 2020
Chaired Q&A with Emma Stibbon RA & Amy-Jane Blackhall, Bankside Gallery, 2019
Socio-political Artist’s Book Practice, Masters’ series, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 2019
Artist’s Talk, Department of Fine Art, University of Salford, 2018
Collaborative artists' books to develop research practice, IMPACT 10 ENCUENTRO, Santander, Spain, 2018
British Printmakers, SGCI Conference, Atlanta and accompanying exhibition British Printmakers in the American South, Decatur, Georgia, USA, 2017
Publications
Leonie has been Editor of the journal Printmaking Today since Spring 2017
Visual article, Interalia Magazine (November 2018)
Artists’ Page, The Blue Notebook (Vol 12, No 1, Autumn-Winter 2017)
Printmaker's Diary, Printmaking Today (Vol 25, No 3, Autumn 2016)
Age of Enlightenment, Printmaking Today (Vol 25, No 2, Summer 2016)
Final Cut, Printmaking Today (Vol 22, No 3, Autumn 2013)
Modern British Wood Engraving, SWE DVD, running time 145 minutes, available from: SWE publications