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Kirstin Leigh

Norwich
Using practice as a means of research the work is neither 'one' nor the 'other'.

Skating on the limits of expression and a known vocabulary, material is used to (re)discover the restrictions within language, and (re)define their place in materiality. Materiality, much like the feminine sexuality, is fluid. Teetering along the edge of definition, negotiating the parameters of anxiety, and constantly shifting in the ebb and flow of voice. 

 

Education

2015-2016 MA Fine Art (Distinction) Norwich University of the Arts

2012-2015 BA (Hons) Fine Art Norwich University of the Arts

2011-2012 Foundation Dip. Fine Art University for the Creative Arts

 

Residencies

2018 High House Artist Residency High House, West Acre

2017 Graduate Artist Residency with Antony Gormley and Vicken Parsons

Norfolk

2016 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Residency St Mary’s Works

 

Exhibitions

2019 Woven Waters Norwich Cathedral Hostry

2018 resist Nunns Yard, Norwich

2017 FLOAT. Firstsite, Colchester

2017 Touch Wood Studio 20 Norwich

2017 Listen Studio 20 Norwich

2017 NUA Degree show (performance as part of James Snelling's degree show) Norwich University of the Arts

2017 The Maxim of Manner The Anteros Arts Foundation

2016 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Residency St Mary’s Works

2016 MA Degree Show Norwich University of the Arts

2016 Cley Contemporary Cley, Norfolk

2016 Wysing Polyphonic Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge

2016 The Bishop’s Art Prize Norwich Cathedral Hostry

2016 Dialogues Symposium St George's, Norwich

2016 Interim MA show Norwich University of the Arts

2015 Resonance Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

2015 Yours, Comes Comitis Firstsite, Colchester

2015 Free Range Truman Brewery, London

2015 BA Degree Show Norwich University of the Arts

2015 Womanspeak St George's, Norwich

 

Curated Programmes

2016 British Art Show 8 Takeover St George’s Building, Norwich

 

Commissions

2016 Soundscape Norwich University of the Arts, Guntons Building

 

Collections

2015 Audio Guide Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

 

Awards

2016 N170 Scholarship (full MA funding) Norwich University of the Arts

 

Discussion, panel and public speaking

2020 Woven Waters Artist talk Norwich Cathedral Hostry

2017 Maxim of Manner open group discussion The Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich

2016 MA presentation and panel discussion Nottingham Contemporary

2016 Pecha Kucha Norwich University of the Arts

 

Work History

February 2020-present Personalisation Development Manager Lisa Angel Ltd, Rackheath

2018-2020 Personalisation Team Supervisor Lisa Angel Ltd, Rackheath

2017-2018 Handmade Technician Lisa Angel Ltd, Rackheath

2016-2017 Events & Administration Intern Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Norwich

2016 Britist Art Show 8 LIVE GUIDE Supervisor Norwich

2016 Installation Technician Whitstable Biennale

2015-2016 Bar Supervisor The Wildman Pub, Norwich

2015-2016 Jewellery Technician J&S Jewellery, Norwich

2013-2015 Cafe Bar Supervisor The Murderers Pub, Norwich

2011-2012 Bar Supervisor The Rochwood Prison Officers Social Club, Rochester

2010 Vinyl Graphics and Application Signs and Imaging, Rochester

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