Anna Leask

A great big Happy Birthday to you my love. 🥳🍰❤️🎶🎤🎸 Who'da thunk we'd hit our mid 40's together.... 🤔🤫😂

A great big happy 22nd birthday to my one and only son Illán. (Forgot to post tgis on his actual birthday!) Super proud to be your Mum. Love you we aa my heart. ❤️🍰🥳🍻

Look at this!! 💙 I took this photo of Foula from the hilltop of Scalloway in my native home Shetland a few years ago. My best friend @nannataittrondra asked me to make her a cyanotype picture with one of my Curlew drawings for her cooker splashback. Her son @keirynntopp rendered it and created this stunning piece of glass. I am beyond thrilled with how it looks. What a fantastic commission to be asked for. Thank you to Amanda and Keirynn. 🤗💙 #curlew #Shetland #cyanotype #Foula

*PART 4* Here they are!!! The photos from the best day of the year🥳💃🕺🏼🪩 #clublandia12 A huge thank you to Fergal Quinn and fab staff at Bourbon bar for being amazing hosts, to the incredible Hi-Fi Band, DJ and Rí for his funky tunes, to Amy and her Amazing Dress Up Booth and to Everyone who came along and made it so special, and to everyone involved behind the scenes — we couldn’t have done it without you ❤️ We already can’t wait for the next one… keep your eyes peeled for the date 👀 Big Thanks to Anna Leask - Art and Photography for the fab pics! 📸

*PART 3* Here they are!!! The photos from the best day of the year🥳💃🕺🏼🪩 #clublandia12 A huge thank you to Fergal Quinn and fab staff at Bourbon bar for being amazing hosts, to the incredible Hi-Fi Band, DJ and Rí for his funky tunes, to Amy and her Amazing Dress Up Booth and to Everyone who came along and made it so special, and to everyone involved behind the scenes — we couldn’t have done it without you ❤️ We already can’t wait for the next one… keep your eyes peeled for the date 👀 Big Thanks to Anna Leask - Art and Photography for the fab pics! 📸

*PART 2* Here they are!!! The photos from the best day of the year🥳💃🕺🏼🪩 #clublandia12 A huge thank you to Fergal Quinn and fab staff at Bourbon bar for being amazing hosts, to the incredible Hi-Fi Band, DJ and Rí for his funky tunes, to Amy and her Amazing Dress Up Booth and to Everyone who came along and made it so special, and to everyone involved behind the scenes — we couldn’t have done it without you ❤️ We already can’t wait for the next one… keep your eyes peeled for the date 👀 Big Thanks to Anna Leask - Art and Photography for the fab pics! 📸

*PART 1* here they are!!! The photos from the best day of the year🥳💃🕺🏼🪩 #clublandia A huge thank you to Fergal Quinn and fab staff at Bourbon bar for being amazing hosts, to the incredible Hi-Fi Band, DJ and Rí for his funky tunes, to Amy and her Amazing Dress Up Booth and to Everyone who came along and made it so special, and to everyone involved behind the scenes — we couldn’t have done it without you ❤️ We already can’t wait for the next one… keep your eyes peeled for the date 👀 Big Thanks to Anna Leask - Art and Photography for the fab pics! 📸

Happy Mother's Day ⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢 (Photo taken AND posted by Aphria Callaghan) 😂😂😂

Happy International Women's Day! 🥳 I am a lucky lady with supportive women in my family, this is my Mam, Shirley with me. I've been blessed with so many talented and creative women in my life, who have employed me for work, supported and bought my art, and have helped shape my career, especially since moving to Sligo. If it wasn't for these wonderful women I wouldn't be the Artist and Photographer I am. 🙏 Thank you to everyone single one of you, here and passed on, and my apologies if I've left out names... I'll probably end up editing and adding more! In no particular order: Pat Doherty, Mary McDonagh, Kate Wilson, Tara McGowan, Sarah Searson, Alice Lyons, Isabelle Caffrey, Amanda Tait, Anne Bucknall, Kelesa Mulchay, Jane Tansey, Marie-Louise Blaney, Ónora Gill-Fitch, Naomi Draper, Laura Mahon, Maeve McGowan, Jackie McGuire, Póilín McGowan, Alice Dixon, Clea van der Grijn, Fiona Crampsie, Catherine Fanning, Julia Johnston, Maeve Clarke, Lizzie Kinsella, Carah Maxwell, Cathy Maidment, Laurie Goodlad, Elizabeth Caffrey, Liz Martin, Guida Marques McCarrick, Lorely Forrester, Bridget Callaghan, Amy O'Hara, Emer McGarry, Carmel Travers, Mary Conlon, Ruth Graham, Sinead Dolan, Lara Byrne, Pam Doneghy, Jenny McCarthy, Justine Doswell, Peggy McKenna, Kira Walton, Tara Booth Mooney, Marie de la Gueronniere, Sarah Sexton, Ciara Buckley, Amanda Jane Graham, Vivienne Byrne, Gillian Ni Chaiside, Nikki Pio le Dantee, Kate Brown, Stephanie Pawula, Carol McGowan, Blaithin Sweeney, Fiona Kelly, Nichola MacEvilly, Róisín Loughrey, Louise Waters, Mary Foley, Rose, Orla Kenny, Marian Needham, Ciara Gallagher, Aine McDaid, Maja Moser, Deirdre Houston, Orla Buckley, Marie Byrne, Ingrid Sutherland, Judith Keyes, Jeni Kennedy, Lisa Cannon, Vanessa Job, Oonagh Burke McCann, Helen Devaney, Yvette Cope, Dorothee Kolle, Monika Maroszova, Hannah Dobson, Margaret Kilcoyne, Cayla O'Carroll, Norah Flaherty, Aphria Callaghan.

Please can as many people come to the Sligo City Hall on Wednesday 25th of Feb at 5pm to support the most vulnerable children in our communities.

Last few days to see the 'Holding Ground' exhibition in the Yeats Building, Sligo. I'm participating as part a group show for the Bríd Festival Sligo My film piece 'Where the Curlew Once Sang' is now available to watch online using the QR code.

Bríd Festival Sligo — Hyde Bridge Gallery Exhibition open now. My work in this exhibition is to raise awareness of the very low numbers, near to extinction, of native Irish Curlews. Based on recent data, it is estimated that there are now approximately 95 to 105 breeding pairs of native Curlew remaining in the Republic of Ireland. When I started this project in 2019, there were 123 breeding pairs recorded in Ireland. Destroyed marshlands and breeding areas, habitat loss from agricultural intensification, land drainage, and afforestation, alongside high rates of predation on eggs and chicks by foxes and crows, there are so many factors working against the curlews existence. I would like to thank Lorely Forrester for her beautiful poem 'Curlew' and allowing me to use it in a film piece for this exhibition. I would also like to thank Frame It, Póilín McGowan for her expertise framing the pieces. Cían Flynn Photography for helping me with the Curlews for the film piece. Tabby O Callaghan for the sound for the film piece. David Behan for his photography of the curlews, birds.ie Catherine Fanning for her curation. The QR code will bring you to a link on Vimeo to watch 'Where The Curlew Once Sang' 🪶🤎💙 This exhibition 'Holding Ground' is a highlight event of Bríd Festival Sligo 2026, presenting a powerful group exhibition inspired by St Brigid as a figure of renewal and marking Imbolc as a time of transition, awakening and care. Rooted in the spirit of Brigid, this exhibition explores acts of ecological, cultural and personal care, positioning women’s creative practices at a threshold between nature and culture, past and future. Here, the act of making becomes an act of tending, holding and sustaining — a quiet but vital form of resistance, connection and continuity. Through diverse artistic approaches, Holding Ground invites audiences to reflect on the ways we nurture what matters, protect what is fragile, and imagine new futures grounded in care. The exhibition highlights women’s creative practices as a dialogue with the environment, exploring our connection to the land and the ways making can nurture, protect, and sustain the natural world.