S O L O
2018 Dreaming of Dead Fish (Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, UK)
2016 Instruments of Industry (Touchstones Museum and Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK)
2014 The Event of The Thread (Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, UK)
2012 Standing at the Gates (Ackworth School, West Yorkshire, UK)
2011 The Naming of Place (Ackworth School, West Yorkshire, UK)
2011 Marking Time, Weaving Place (Brass Gallery, Leeds, UK)
2010 Mapping Movement (The Bowery, Leeds, UK)
D U O
2019 Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce (Glasgow Women’s library, UK)
2018 Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce (Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK)
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2019 Personal Structures PAPER Pavilion, Palazzo Mora Venice Biennale (Venice, IT)
2019 Major Conversations (Platform A, Middlesborough)
2019 Harry Meadley – ‘But what if we tried? (Touchstones, Rochdale)
2018 Manifesto (Rogue Artists Studio, UK)
2018 Dialogues 5 – Mark Devereux Projects (Newbridge Projects, UK)
2018 Bankley Open (Bankley Gallery, UK)
2018 The Art of Magic, touring exhibition (Exeter Phoenix, Exeter; The Horse Hospital, London; Full of Noises, Barrow-in-Furnace; Robin Wood Mill, Todmorden; Analogue Farm, Rochdale; Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle UK)
2017 Castlefield Gallery at The Manchester Contemporary (Old Granada Studios, Manchester, UK)
2016 Excuse Me While I am Changing (Rogue Projects Space, Manchester, UK)
2016 New Work at The Manchester Contemporary (Old Granada Studios, Manchester, UK)
2016 Women Artists from 1861 -2015 (Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK)
2016 Manchester Histories Festival (Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK)
2015 For Posterity (Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK)
2015 People and Process: A history of Salts Mill (Salts Mill, Saltaire, UK)
2015 Film Screening of The Last Yarn (St. Asaph Cathedral, Wales, UK)
2014 GodsbridgeX (The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, UK)
2013 Anual 2013 (La Escocesa, Barcelona, Spain)
2013 Not Just for Christmas, (The Contemporary Art Society North, PS Mirabel, Manchester, UK)
2013 Neo:Graduates show (Neo:22 Bolton, UK)
2013 Cloth & Memory {2} (Salts Mill, Saltaire, UK)
2013 Castlefield Gallery at The Manchester Contemporary (Spinningfields, Manchester, UK)
2013 If not here, where (Didsbury Parsonage, Manchester, UK)
2013 TESTBED (Lionel Dobie Project, Manchester, UK)
2013 Hand-made Futures, curated by Blank Media Collective (Contact Theatre, Manchester UK)
2013 Through (neo:gallery22, Bolton, UK)
2013 The Frost Art Museum Drawing Project (The Frost Museum, Miami, USA)
2012 Manchester Artists’ Book Fair with Hot bed Press (Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK)
2012 MA Show (Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University UK)
2012 Journeys (Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, UK)
2011 CUBE Open 2011 (The CUBE Gallery, Manchester UK)
2011 Workhouse (Hive Gallery, Manchester, UK)
2011 Cartograph (The Brass Gallery, Leeds, UK)
R E S I D E N C I E S
2019 Artists & 3D Print residency, PrintCity (Manchester School of Art, UK)
2018 Research residency, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
2017 Research residency, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow
2017 Curfew Tower 17 ‘IMPOSE||LIFT’ residency with Juliet Davis curated by The Penthouse (Cushendall, NI)
2016 Thee month print residency, Neo Artists Studios, Bolton
2015 One year research residency, Touchstone Museum and Art Gallery Archive, Rochdale
2013 Three week collaborative residency, -TO-AND-FRO- Rogue Project Space, Manchester.
2013 One year residency, AA2A Manchester School of Art, Manchester
2013 One month Studio residency, La Escocesa Studios, Barcelona
2012 One month collaborative residency, Armley Mills, Leeds
2008-11 Three year studio residency, Ackworth School, West Yorkshire
B U R S A R I E S / A W A R D S
2018 Recipient of a 2018 a-n Professional Development Bursary
2016 Creative Rochdale, nominated for ‘Best Production, Exhibition or Cultural Event’
2014 New Opportunities Award, New Expressions 3, selected by CVAN & Visual Arts South West
2014 Arts Council, Grants for the Arts for ‘The Event of the Thread’
2013 Neo:Artists Commendation Award for works exhibited in ‘Neo:Graduates show’
2012 The Textile Society, Postgraduate Bursary Award
2010 Arts and Humanities Research Council Postgraduate Funding
A R T I C L E S / P R E S S
2018 The Guardian: Museum of the Year Shortlist – Glasgow Women’s Library by Jackie Kay
2018 thisistomorrow: ‘Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce’ by Selina Oakes
2018 MAP: ‘Consequences of progress, remnents for the future’ by Jazmine Linklater
2018 ART511 Mag: ‘Turning around and back again’ by Lauren Velvick.
2018 Corridor8: ‘Ruth Barker and Hannah Leighton-Boyce‘ by Miles Knapp
2017 Hannah Festival Directory, The Hannah Festival
2016 The Journal of Modern Craft: Volume 9, 2016 – Issue 2. by Lynn Setterington
2016 Corridor 8 review: A Chorus of Objects, by Dr. Laura Mansfield
2016 Hannah Festival Directory, The Hannah Festival
2016 Artist Newsletter Review: Instruments of Industry, by Jack Welsh
2016 Rochdale Observer: Art Installation resonates on so many levels, by Steve Cooke
2016 Embroidery Magazine: March/April, Watching, Waiting, Making, by June Hill
2015 Drawing Paper 8, Liverpool
2015 Axisweb spotlight feature on The Event of the Thread
2015 Some thoughts on multiple lifeworlds: identity, culture & politics, by Dr Iain Biggs
2014 The Event of The Thread, Creative Tourist Axisweb Selects, by Sheila McGregor
2014 Owl Projects blog: Revolution I: Industrialisation, by Annie Carpenter
2014 TEXT Journal: Spotlight MA Award, Volume 41
B O O K S / P U B L I C A T I O N S
2019 Personal Structures -Identities, Venice 2019 Art Biennial (European Cultural Centre, Italy)
2019 The Art of Magic, Folklore Tapes (Lancashire, UK)
2018 East Wing 1939 – 2011, printed/cited in ‘Retroactivity and Contemporary Art’, by Craig Staff. Published by Bloomsbury, 2018
2015 The Event of The Thread, limited edition artist book. Mid Pennine Arts
2013 Cloth & Memory {2}, Exhibition Catalogue, eds. Lesley Miller
D I S C O G R A P H Y
2017 The Folklore of Plants, Folklore Tapes, (various artists)
2017 Instruments of Industry, 10” with gatefold sleeve. Release by Folklore Tapes
C O L L E C T I O N S
Works held in private and public collections including: University of Salford Art Collection, UK; Touchstones Art Gallery, UK; Salts Mill, UK; Ackworth Quaker School, UK.
Books: Winchester School of Art Special Collections; Oxford Brooks Special Collections; Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection; Glasgow School of Art Special Collections; The British Library; Bodleian Library Oxford University, The Cambridge University Library; National Library of Scotland; National Library of Wales; Trinity College Dublin; Manchester School of Art Special Collections