Hannah Leighton-Boyce

Syllabus VIII, what an amazing final gathering! We first met here at Wysing Art Centre last June during the Summer Solstice and on Saturday night we celebrated the end of our final gathering and the Spring Equinox together. In the last 10 months we’ve planned, made, laughed, and created gatherings with @wysing.arts.centre @pssquaredbelfast @sitegallery @new_art_exchange @spikeisland and @eprjcts working together to get to know each other and to explore the overlaps and spaces between our practices and interests. There's a lot of digesting to do - it’s hard to summarise this last weekend let alone what the last 10 months have been but I've felt so much generosity, care, and support throughout and I'm incredibly grateful to everyone involved for that. For now I'm sharing a few pics of some work I made/arranged/installed on Thursday, I'm feeling really happy and excited by it. I've been thinking about what resources I have within and around me and work feels truly reflective of where I am with my life, ideas, experiences and so I decided to bring with me a selection of things I had made in the past (or collected) - they are all significant but never became the work itself. These items, dating back to 2012, had either informed or supported the making and development of different bodies of work, and had for the most part remained in storage boxes or on a shelf in my studio quietly guiding me. I wanted to bring these perspectives into the present and to use the first day of the gathering to play and explore impulses, sensations, and relations between these items and time and life periods alongside a selection of work made in the last few weeks, months, and years. And I've just settled on a working title for this constellation of work - 'In your own time, at the end of the day' (2026) Materials list in the comments. Syllabus VIII Cohort: @symstellium @a_f__lin @josieko_art @oceanloren @emmabfox @emma_breadman @kaiyawaerea @anouskasamms @alexanderstubbss @hlboyce Artist coordinator and advisor: @__freyjaaaaaa @wingshan.ee #syllabusviii #contemoraryart #sculpture #contemporaryarycollage #contemporarycollagemagazine

In her hands, loose weave cotton between her palm and fingers, her mind elsewhere, 2025. Material: paper. Lately, I've been picking back up some threads of ideas and work I began at the end of last year and reminiscing about, and feeling very grateful for, the amazing month on a group residency at the @scottishsculptureworkshop . This work is one of the few paper weaving/samplers I made whilst I was there and the last few days of the residency. It was a fantastic period of time/place/landscape to luxuriate in the pleasure and joy of being and making art alongside a gorgeous group of artists - so much making, conversation, laughter, good food, experimenting with different ideas, materials and processes with the care and support of each other and the amazing team, workshops, technical support and community around SSW 🫶 @maia_taieb @mmwhawell @texchures @nickymayart @jesscrisp1 @lilylavorato Photos 1&2 Michael Pollard Photos 3-6: Lily Lavotaro Photo 7:Maïa Taïeb #rogueartistsstudios #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #contemporarycollage #contemporarycollagemagazine

The shifting perspective of muscle, connective tissue, and bone. The ache of cells exploring their memory, 2023-2024 (series) There's nothing actually new here... I made this piece several years ago now in 2023, it was actually the first of a series of woven collages that I made when I was beginning a month stay in hospital and so I'm particularly fond of it for that reason. At the time, these were less akin to work, and more about survival. This and subsequent series of works made over the last few years are finally up on my website. Updating my website had become this enormous task that I occasionally squinted at and then put off until another day/year. I somehow mustered the focus in the last few days, it's not finished but when is anything - it feels there enough to share and so here I am also posting for the first time in ages too. Website link in bio. Photo: Michael Pollard. @rogueartists_studios #rogueartistsstudios #contemporaryartist #collage #contemporarycollagemagazine

Syllabus VIII Artist Highlight: Hannah Leighton-Boyce 🖤 Hannah Leighton-Boyce works across sculpture, collage, drawing, and print, often creating site-responsive installations. Her practice explores material and sensory relationships, reflecting on connections between bodies, objects, and place. Speaking on her work, Hannah says: “Recent developments in my work with paper have grown out of two experiences within intense industrial and medical environments: a residency in an architectural ceramics factory and an extended period in hospital. Together, they sharpened my awareness of material, biological, and bodily interactions and prompted me to explore how weaving, paper, and craft echo bodily processes and connect to disability and the body. For the final Syllabus VIII gathering, I took new etching plates, some of my woven collages, and objects I’d made or collected as far back as 2012. Many had supported the making of earlier work but never reached a final form. I wanted to give them space—to rest, belong, and sit in relation. Over the gathering, I explored their echoes, impressions, and material correspondences, letting a more porous relationship with my own history and processes emerge.This final gathering consolidated the experience but what’s mattered most over the 10 months has been the friendships and connections I’ve made. Everyone was generous and attentive to one another, and I really appreciated the supportive, caring environment we’ve built together.” Learn more about Hannah’s practice at hannahleightonboyce.com 🔗 #syllabusVIII #wysingartscentre #hannahleightonboyce

Highlights 1. In her hands, loose weave cotton between her palm and fingers, her mind elsewhere. 2025 by Hannah Leighton-Boyce @hlboyce Collage, woven paper. 2. The Charm of the Precarious, 2025 by Anne Guest @anneguest.artist Cyanotype and gold leaf on paper. 3. a thing that remembers itself, 2021 curated by Holly O’Brien @hollyroseobrien Curated by Holly Rose O’Brien The Deep End, Glasgow a thing that remembers itself was an exhibition and publication that brought together the work of Lydia Davies, Caitlyn Main and Anna-Rose Stefatou. Capturing an ephemeral experience and exploring memory as embodied, yet more than the body, leaking and excessive, and encoded onto objects. Framed in a moment of excess, the show and publication use leftovers, residues, and waste, to pause on dim or fleeting memories. The space became a theatre for continual dress rehearsals, things held in a delicate balance begin to slip, rupture and blur, enacting the fragility of memory, feelings, and constructions of the self. The exhibition included Lydia Davies’ audio work Regurgitating (2021) which uses the singing voice as a charged outpouring of the body, exploring its association with crying, shouting, pain and healing. Regurgitating explores the residues of others’ voices in our own; the unwieldy rubble of conversations and phrasing that fill our inner speech. The singing voice attempts to call out, but is reeled back in and broken down into speech as the mouth’s desire to arrest and communicate – to let something out and let something in – is seized in a cycle of regurgitation. Drawing on research into voice, grief and narrative, Regurgitating considers the ability a song has to stage a scene of sentiment, to carry baggage, and to provide an intersubjective site from which to speak. 4. Beyond Place, 2026 by Noelle Genevier @subliminal_haze22 Analogue collage.

I'm delighted to be showing two works in 'Fuzzy Memories' which opens this evening @hanoverproject curated by @houlkers_art Fuzzy Memories invites artists from @rogueartists_studios to reflect on memory as an unstable, emotional space—one that is blurred, fragmented, and often contradictory. The word fuzzy suggests softness and warmth, but also distortion, gaps, and uncertainty. Memories can feel safe yet unreliable, comforting yet fractured. This exhibition explores how personal history, lived experience, and artistic practice resurface through nostalgia and recall. I'm showing two works alongside each other for the first time. Both evolved through two overlapping experiences: a residency in an architectural ceramics factory and an expended period of time spent in hospital receiving treatment for a cancer relapse. Both were intense encounters within industrial contexts that heightened my awareness of material, biological, and bodily interactions, ecologies, and states. ‘The movement and shifting perspective of muscle, connective tissue, and bone. The ache of cells exploring their memory’ (series), 2023-2024. Title: Unofficial works (part of No.7), 2022 Medium: Architectural faience tile. Unofficial works are part of a larger body of work commissioned through an Art in Manufacturing residency at Darwen Terracotta and Faience commissioned by @thefestivalofmaking Fuzzy Memories Exhibition dates: Preview: 26 March 2026 5-8pm Open: 27 March – 24 April 2026 10-4 (by appointment only) Venue Address: Hanover Project Space Hanover Building, Bhailok Street, Preston. What 3 Words: Moth.Appeal.Ticket (Gallery Entrance) Photo 1&2: Mike Pollard Photos 3&4: @juleslisterphotography #rogueartistsstudios #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #contemporarycollage #contemporarycollagemagazine

WIP - Intaglio monotype, and some other experiments in progress. This is one of the first prints I've made during a fellowship at @artlabcps and Claylab at UCLan exploring the overlaps and spaces between ceramics and print. It's so exciting to be back working in printmaking...the last time I was in a print studio was 2022 when I began an MFA at the Slade School of Art and had to leave because of my health. It's been especially lovely to be working alongside @_nicola_ellis_ again during her AA2A residency and to meet and connect with other artists working here. My time in ceramics has been more recent after an amazing month-long residency at the end of last year at the @scottishsculptureworkshop and the experiments I was making then using clay, paper, weaving, collage, aluminium, and ceramics(!) are feeding into the work I am developing now. Huge thanks to @tchill80 and @kathrynpooleart for letting me loose in the print room and for their expertise and support! #Artlab #printmaking #contemporaryart #etching #materialresearch @rogueartiststudios

🎉✨ Countdown to Rogue Open Studios! ✨🎉 11 DAYS TO GO! ✨ Today on Rogue Studios 30@30 podcast on @the_grateful_web we are delighted to chat to Hannah Leighton-Boyce ✨ Hannah works across a variety of sculpture formats including collage, writing, installation, and live event. Her most recent work explores processes of joining, repair, renewal, and transformation to reimagine a means of holding together fragments of writing, body, form and landscape. At the recent night of performance and video, ‘The Same deep Water as You’ @pinkmcr she read from the work ‘Notes from meanwhile’- a series of vignettes where she recalls, amongst other things - fever-induced hallucinations and dreams in which she willed her body to accept cells that had travelled across the world and returned to her in a clear plastic bag, the thoughts of a piece of chewing gum, the feeling of slipping away, being a body of water, and a conversation with a hip. Website: @hlboyce 1. Performance reading, 'Notes From Meanwhile' (WIP) at PINK (2025) Credit Jules Lister 2. Performance reading, 'Notes From Meanwhile' (WIP) at PINK (2025) Credit Jules Lister 3. The inward flow of things (detail) at Radical Pairing's, National Festival of Making (2025) Credit artist 4. The inward flow of things (detail) at Radical Pairing's, National Festival of Making (2025) Credit artist 5. Within arm's reach (detail) at Radical Pairing's, National Festival of Making (2025) Credit Robin Zahler 6. First impressions, at Radical Pairing's, National Festival of Making (2025) 🎧 You can listen to a new conversation - one released everyday - over the 30 days leading up to our Open Studios - on @the_grateful_web — available onAcast, Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get your podcasts! Do like, follow and share! 📍 Save the date: 🗓 Saturday 20 September, 12–8pm 📍 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1 Over 100 artists’ studios to explore inside the historic Varna Street School! 🏫 From the Shadow runs September 6th – 28th and Soft Proof September 20th until 5th October. #rogue30at30 #rogueartiststudios #openstudio#whatsonmanchester #manchesterartist

Our collaboration began with Rowland visiting Hannah’s studio @rogueartists_studios in 2022 and has slowly kindled through encounters and conversations within the folds, intersections, and overlaps in our practices. This evolved into us writing a collaborative DYCP application to help us carve out the time to chat, make, and support each other - to see where the year ahead takes us. We’ll be staying close to home, hunkering down in each others’ studios and sharing what we produce along the way. Huge thanks to @katherineanastasia_ for her support and guidance, @pinkmcr_ for hosting our residencies and to @aceagrams for investing in our collaboration. Photo taken @wainsgatechapel by @scoutstuart

In June, we welcomed the artists of Syllabus VIII, our alternative learning programme, to Wysing for their first gathering. Over the course of the gathering, the group reflected on how they would like to work together over the next ten months. The cohort engaged in activities including a solstice ritual facilitated by Syllabus’ Artist Advisor Wingshan, to encourage reflection on rhythms and relationships within the group as well as a speculative history workshop with Dr Vivien Chan which invited them to write speculative narratives for objects. We’re looking forward to the next gathering, which will take place with Syllabus partner PS² in Belfast from 8–10 August. Syllabus VIII Artists: @oceanloren @emmabfox @emma_breadman @josieko_art @hlboyce @a_f__lin @anouskasamms @symstellium @alexanderstubbss @kaiyawaerea Syllabus VIII Partners: @pssquaredbelfast @eprjcts @spikeisland @studiovoltairelondon @new_art_exchange @sitegallery Reposted from @wysing.arts.centre

SIX QUESTIONS with Hannah Leighton-Boyce and Uma Breakdown Axis Fellows Hannah Leighton-Boyce @hlboyce and Uma Breakdown @supsupsupwhat in conversation. Head here to see the full conversation: https://buff.ly/b5Ah7Py or click the link in our bio! UB: Is damage important to your practice and what does it do that's different from repair (if anything)? HLB: In some ways it is - the process damage (or dying), repair and renewal - they’re part of the same fragility process of existence. Sometimes I explore this through material choices and decisions around their application or display that means they remain susceptible to environmental changes and touch, or structures that are propped or leaning and could collapse - I’m interested when something feels responsive and contains an aliveness. Image 1️⃣: Uma Breakdown, studio documentation 2025 Image 2️⃣: Hannah Leighton-Boyce, studio documentation 2025

SIX QUESTIONS with Hannah Leighton-Boyce and Uma Breakdown Axis Fellows Hannah Leighton-Boyce @hlboyce and Uma Breakdown @supsupsupwhat in conversation. Head here to see the full conversation: https://buff.ly/b5Ah7Py or click the link in our bio! UB: "In 1987 Rem Koolhaas proposed the Strategy of the Void, an approach to architecture that centres space and the unbuilt, as the “enabling fields” of potential, and it's something I've thought about a few times when looking at your paper works. What is the role of voids for you in your practice?" HLB: "It makes me think about meditation. I have this long-term interest in gaps, absences, and the spaces between, in the past these have perhaps contained something missing or lacking but also very connected to the body. Within my work, this void or space or field has surfaced through material interactions that open up the sensory and embodied in the making and viewing experience." Image 2️⃣: Uma Breakdown, studio documentation 2025 Image 3️⃣: Hannah Leighton-Boyce, studio documentation 2025