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S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2018 (28 Sept – 27 Oct) Solo exhibition Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
2016 Instruments of Industry, Touchstones Museum and Art Gallery, Rochdale
2014 The Event of The Thread, Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Rossendale
2012 Standing at the Gates, Ackworth School, West Yorkshire
2011 The Naming of Place, Ackworth School, West Yorkshire
2011 Marking Time, Weaving Place, Brass Gallery, Leeds
2010 Mapping Movement, The Bowery, Leeds
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 (1 Feb – 23 Mar): Glasgow Women’s library, touring from Castlefield Gallery
2018 (May – October) The Art of Magic, touring group 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)
2018 Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2017 Castlefield Gallery, The Manchester Contemporary
2016 Excuse Me While I am Changing, Rogue Projects Space, Manchester
2016 New Work, The Manchester Contemporary
2016 Women Artists from 1861 -2015, Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale
2016 Manchester Histories Festival, Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale
2015 For Posterity, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2015 People and Process: A history of Salts Mill, Salts Mill, Saltaire
2015 Film Screening of The Last Yarn, St. Asaph Cathedral, Wales.
2014 GodsbridgeX, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
2013 Anual 2013 La Escocesa, Barcelona
2013 Not Just for Christmas, The Contemporary Art Society North, PS Mirabel, Manchester
2013 Neo:Graduates show, Neo:22 Bolton
2013 Cloth & Memory {2}, Salts Mill, Saltaire
2013 Castlefield Gallery, The Manchester Contemporary
2013 If not here, where, Didsbury Parsonage, Manchester
2013 TESTBED, Lionel Dobie Project, Manchester
2013 Hand-made Futures, Contact Theatre/Blank Media Collective, Manchester
2013 Through, neo:gallery22, Bolton
2013 The Frost Art Museum Drawing Project, The Frost Museum, Miami
2012 Manchester Artists’ Book Fair with Hot bed Press, Holden Gallery, Manchester
2012 MA Show, Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University
2012 Journeys, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, Lancashire
2011 CUBE Open 2011, The CUBE Gallery, Manchester
2011 Workhouse, Hive Gallery, Manchester
2011 Cartograph, The Brass Gallery, Leeds
R E S I D E N C I E S
2018 Research residency, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery archives and stores
2017 Research residency, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow
2017 Curfew Tower 17 ‘IMPOSE||LIFT’ residency curated by The Penthouse
2016 3 month print residency, Neo Artists Studios, Bolton
2015 1 year research residency, Touchstone Museum and Art Gallery Archive, Rochdale
2013 3 week collaborative residency, -TO-AND-FRO- Rogue Project Space, Manchester.
2013 1 year residency, AA2A Manchester School of Art, Manchester
2013 1 month Studio residency, La Escocesa Studios, Barcelona
2012 1 month collaborative residency, Armley Mills, Leeds
2008-11 3-year studio residency, Ackworth School, West Yorkshire
A W A R D S
2018 (June – November) Selected artist for Dialogues5 with Mark Devereaux Projects
2018 (July – December) 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. Review 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
2018 Works printed in ‘Retroactivity and Contemporary Art’, by Craig Staff. Bloomsbury
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 Folklore Tapes, The Folklore of Plants, (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
C O L L A B O R A T I O N
2018 Makers Dozen, Festival of Making, Blackburn. 12th – 13th May,
2017 Project with Juliet Davis: Curfew Tower 17 ‘IMPOSE || LIFT’ residency
2016 Modular Meets and Owl Projects residency at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
T A L K S / P R E S E N T A T I O N S
2018 Jamboree organised by LOW PROFILE, Dartington Hall Estate, Devon
2018 Participation with Juliet Davis in ‘Slowing and stilling: foregrounding process in performance practices’ Birmingham
2018 Digital Cultures Event, organised by Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester
2018 Castlefield Gallery Associates, Castlefield Gallery
2018 Panel discussion, Castlefield Gallery with Adele Patrick (Glasgow Womens Library), Lindsay Taylor (University of Salford Art Collection), Helen Wewiora (Director), Matthew Pendergast (Curator)
2017 Artist Talk, Manchester College
2016 Drawing Matters Symposium, Paper: ‘So the line was always there in the beginning?’ York St John’s University
2016 Visiting Artist, TOMA (The Other MA) – Metal, Southend on Sea
2016 Artist Talk, Blackpool College
2014 Artist Talk, Liverpool Hope University
2014 Artist Talk, Chester University
2013 Artist Talk, Experimentem amb L’Art, Barcelona
2013 In conversation with Lesley Millar, Cloth & Memory {2}, Salts Mill, Saltaire
2013 Artist Talk, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2013 Artist Talk, The Cornerhouse, Manchester
2012 Artist Talk, MA Student Symposium, Manchester School of Art
2011 Artist Talk, Leeds Psychogeography Group, Leeds University
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