Recent projects | Hannah Leighton-Boyce

: I’ve been selected for a ‘Women in Print Residency’ at Artlab Contemporary Print Studio in 2025/2026. Artlab is a hub for incubating ideas and methods, developing innovative thinking about printmaking as a fine art discipline. This practice-based research unit is led by two artists and research staff Tracy Hill and Magda Stawarska. ‘Women in Print’ is a creative research project led by Artlab which explores how printmaking processes can enhance the profiles and expand the practices of women artists, through a residency programme and the development of a unique and internationally significant contemporary print archive.[…] Over a two-week period, the participating artists are invited through an experimental and innovative approach to broaden their printmaking knowledge while working alongside the master printmakers of our studio’

: In November i’ll be based in beautiful Aberdeenshire and the Scottish Sculpture Workshop for a month long residency alongside Hannah Ekuwa Buckman, Jessica Crisp, Lily Lavorato, Maïa Taïeb, Molly M. Whawell and Nicky May Bolland. The residency is aimed to support the artists to develop their practices over the course of their month-long residency. Alongside inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework, Group Residency includes a collective programme of walks, sauna, film nights, potluck meals, artist sharings, and peer learning.

: Syllabus is a co-designed learning programme in its eighth year, supporting ten artists across ten months. Beginning in June 2025, Syllabus VIII is built around a series of six intensive in-person weekend gatherings and an online programme. The ten selected artists collaboratively develop the curriculum, with curators and artists from partner organisations, the Syllabus Coordinator, and Syllabus VIII Artist Advisor. The selected artists for Syllabus VIII are, Anouska Samms, april forrest lin 林森, Alexander Stubbs, Emma Bentley-Fox, Emma Brennan, Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Josie KO, Kaiya Waerea, Sym Stellium, and Ocean Baulcombe-Toppin. Syllabus VIII is jointly delivered with Eastside Projects, New Art Exchange, PS2, Spike Island, Site Gallery and Studio Voltaire Syllabus is funded by Freelands Foundation and Arts Council England.

: Radical Pairings is a publication celebrating the work of five exceptional women artists: who exhibited new work created during residencies with manufacturers in the North in 2022. Ranging from three months to two years, the residencies of Hannah Leighton-Boyce + Darwen Terracotta, Liz Wilson + CNC Robotics, Nicola Ellis + Ritherdon, Jacqueline Donachie + Lancashire Saw Mill, and Raisa Kabir with John Spencer Textiles and Queen Street Mill were developed through the National Festival of Making’s commissioning programme, Art in Manufacturing. Art critic and writer Elizabeth Fullerton was invited to document these particular artists’ residencies, commissioned within the wider scope of the Art in Manufacturing programme and resulting in the essay central to this publication, Artists and Factories Make Radical Pairings.

: https://axisweb.org/blog/six-questions

: ‘Axis is thrilled to introduce the four members who will take part in this year’s Axis Fellowship, a programme designed to support early to mid-career artists in developing their practice over two intensive periods between October – December 2024 and February – April 2025. “It’s an honour to welcome Uma Breakdown, Asuf Ishaq, Hannah Leighton-Boyce and Sean Roy Parker as our Axis Fellows of 2024. I can’t wait to see how each of these artists will inspire the cohort and Fellowship experience as we develop together over the coming year. It is a huge privilege to share with you their journeys, so please keep your eyes peeled for updates!” – Harlan Whittingham, artist development and commissions producer.

: North Road Salon, screening of Compassionate Attention (After Yvonne Rainer)

: Sculpture, Multiplicity, Uniqueness. A shared conversation with BAS9 artist Katie Schwab and Manchester-based artist Hannah Leighton-Boyce. In her 1968 essay ‘Sculpture, Multiplicity, Uniqueness’, artist Mitzi Cunliffe reflects on her experience producing artworks in a factory setting, and the works’ relation to architecture, handcrafting and social production. Cunliffe’s work and writing provides a starting point for this discussion between artists Hannah Leighton-Boyce and Katie Schwab. Between 2019-21, Hannah Leighton-Boyce undertook an Art in Manufacturing residency at Darwen Terracotta & Faience in Blackburn, a factory that specialises in traditional terracotta restoration, bespoke architectural facades, abstract ceramic glazes, handcrafted faience tiles, and sanitary ware. This talk will explore her exhibition as part of National Festival of Making, ‘Articulations’, in relation to Katie’s research for BAS9, considering ideas of abstraction, handcrafting, restoration, and the role of bodies in factory production.The event will include a screening of the moving image work ‘(After Yvonne Rainer) Compassionate attention’ (2022) by Hannah Leighton-Boyce.

: The National Festival of Making, Art in Manufacturing Exhibition: Articulations Articulations showcases a body of work developed through my Art in Manufacturing residency at Darwen Terracotta & Faience. The work is being presented at the Cotton Exchange in Blackburn, part of the National Festival of Making Programme on the 11th and 12th June from 11am to 5pm. I began my Art in Manufacturing residency with Darwen Terracotta in 2019, working intermittently through 2020 & 2021, and up to this time. The necessary extended nature of this placement allowed me to explore a range of ideas and reflect on working in a factory at this moment; most recently considering what it means to work slowly and with care in this context and to reflect on being ‘unproductive’ in a highly productive setting. Throughout the embedded residency, my work has developed with consideration towards objects that have a supportive function and material remnants that hold this memory in their form and surface; impressions often caused by the processes of pressing, settling, slipping, and yielding of one material and/or action and another. The exhibition will showcase some of the works developed through the residency, including the most curved plaster forms made by the process of ‘running’ plaster, which consider articulations and gestures of the body within space. Venue: The Cotton Exchange, 4, 18 King William St, Ewood, Blackburn, BB1 7DP

: Para-lab report 2021 (23rd to 25th September) and para-lab mini symposium – Rogue Project Space Saturday 25th September, 2 – 4pm Para-lab invite you to join us as we come together to display and discuss a series of ongoing collaborations between artists and scientists. The report will be presented through artefacts accumulated from the process of collaboration, as well as workshops and a mini-symposium to contextualise the work.The weekend acts as a marker along the path of long-term, open-ended collaborations and a platform for the participants and the public to get together in real life after so long operating only online. Open to the public: Rogue Project Space, Thursday 23rd September, 6 – 8 Saturday 25th September, 11- 5 Sunday 26th September, 12 – 4

: Interdisciplinary Residency at Hospitalfield. From the 16th – 29th August 2021, I will be travelling up to Arbroath, Scotland to join seven other artists for two weeks on The Interdisciplinary Programme at Hospitalfield. My residency is being funded through a recently awarded DYCP grant from Arts Council England and, is part of a wider 3-month project to develop some pieces of writing that she tentatively began last year and, to explore this alongside and in relation to my studio practice.

: White Columns Online: The Position of the Sun in the Sky Curated by Bridget Finn, April 15–June 7, 2021 Participating Artists: Fadi al-Hamwi, Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Liz Linden, Kylie Lockwood, Robert Rhee, Martin Roth, Jesse Stecklow, Ryo Tomoda, Al Wong