Leanne Cunningham
Rooted in an ecological and psychogeographic practice, Leanne's work reimagines landscapes, particularly overlooked environments, as sites of layered narrative and quiet resistance.
She examines how identity is shaped by her surroundings, using found imagery, personal archives, and field recordings (sound and photography) to construct visual stories that merge the personal with the political. These works often take the form of artist books or site-responsive installations.
Leanne is particularly interested in the tension between outer landscapes, and the shifting terrain of the inner self. Through the lens of collective stories, personal and public, she reimagines the 'landscape' as a site of psychological projection, emotional dissonance, and ecological entanglement, reflecting on how the natural world, frequently idealised or romanticised, becomes a screen onto which inner states; unrest, longing, fragmentation, are cast.
She seeks to honour both the resilience and vulnerability of the natural world, working at the intersection of environmental storytelling and experimental image-making.
As founder of Lonely Stone Press, a small-scale and independent publishing platform supporting work at the intersection of landscape, language, and ecology, their next project focusses on a feminist, psychogeographically informed publishing project. It will explore how ideas - like stones - can be placed, carried, and echoed across terrain. Their current focus, through the forthcoming publication (and a work in progress) Resonant Terrain, investigates listening not as a passive reception but as a material and political practice of attention, memory, and resistance.
