Leanne Cunningham
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    • Notes from the Land, 2025
    • Until We Travel, 2020
    • Your Tongue Is Better Than My Cocoon, 2017
    • Narrating the Urban Space, 2017
    • Reading as Listening, Soundings as Text Forming a Collective Memory, 2016
    • The Hush We Hear In The Air Still Holds, 2014
    • Compositional Venice, 2014
    • TEN:TWO, 2012
  • LONELY STONE PRESS
Education
  • University of the Arts London, London College of Communication, MA Sound Art, 2015 – 2016, Distinction
  • University of Central Lancashire BA (Hons) Fine Art (Drawing & Image Making), 2011 – 2014, First Class

​​Academic Appointments
  • Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University, 2024
  • Associate Lecturer, BA / MA Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire, 2017-2022
  • Guest speaker, Sound-Image2017, University of Greenwich, London, 2017
  • Guest speaker, Women in Sound / Women on Sound, The Listening Room, Goldsmiths, University of London 2016 
  • Archival Assistant, London College of Communication, London Musicians Collective/CLA Copyright Archive Assistant, University of the Arts, 2016
  • Guest speaker, Fractured Narratives, Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University Belfast, 2015

Teaching
  • University of Derby, Programme Leader BA (Hons) Creative Art & Design Practice, 2021- Present
  • University of Central Lancashire, Lecturer of Fine Art, Film and Moving Image, 2022 (sabbatical cover)
  • Buxton & Leek College, Photography & Creative Media Lecturer, 2023 - Present
  • Leek School of Art, Senior Lecturer of Fine Art, 2021 – Present

Presentations
  • Sound Installation, Women's Line Project, Silk Museum, Macclesfield, 2024
  • Urban Wilderness: In the Balance Programme, Outdoor Sound Installation, Longton, 2024
  • 24 Doors, Outside Arts, Sound and Illustration Installation, Staffordshire, 2023
  • A New Page - Spoken Word Performance, Bolton Gate Arts, Stoke-On-Trent, 2022
  • Performing the Void, Dilston Grove (CGP Gallery), London 2017
  • Untie Before Form, Women in Sound / Women on Sound, Goldsmiths, University of London 2016
  • Narrating the Urban Space, CRiSAP, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, 2016
  • Compositional Venice, Hanover Project, UK, 2014

Selected Group Exhibitions
  • Glasgow Gallery of Photography, 2023
  • Knotted Identities, Bolton Gate Arts, Stoke-On-Trent, 2022
  • Until We Travel, Cities and Memory, 2020
  • Daily Concerns, Dilston Grove (CGP Gallery), London 2019
  • Trumpets for Viola, Rounded Radio, London, 2017
  • The Listening Booth, George Gallery, London 2016
  • Platform Open Annual Art Exhibition, 2015
  • Contrasting Geometries, Threshold Festival, LCB Space, The Baltic Triangle, Liverpool, UK 2015
  • In the City, (Limited Edition publication and exhibition), Hanover Project, UK 2014
  • Carpets Up! The Birley Project, UK, 2014
  • PRIOR, Hanover Project, UK, 2014
  • Site and Sound: Acoustic Spaces and Sonic Environments, Hanover Project, UK 2014
  • International Women's Day: Art Film Archive, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Preston, UK 2014
  • Right Here Right Now, Lancashire, UK, Pakistan, Texas, 2014
  • Hanover Project Video Festival, Hanover Project, UK, 2013
  • Project 2013 - Cafe Royal Books, UK, 2013
  • OPEN Space Film Event, Lancashire, UK 2013​


Features / Awards / Commissions
  • Staffordshire Ale Trail Illustrations, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, CAMRA, 2024
  • 24 Doors, Outside Project, 2023
  • Dawn Chorus, Keele University / Urban Wilderness, 2023
  • Word Power, Library X, London, 2018 
  • Rounded-Radio, London 2017
  • The Next Station, Cities & Memories, London 2016 
  • Female: Pressure, 2016 
  • Dirty Ear Forum, PEER Gallery, London 2016
  • Resonance FM, The Sound of Criticism; There is Nobody Special, Radio Broadcast, London, 2016 
  • Cafe Royal Books 02-03/2015
  • In the City - (Limited edition Publication and Exhibition), Hanover Project, UK, 2014
  • Victoria Lucas' Castle Market, 2014
  • Arts Marketing, Press Operation and Publicity Internship, Hanover Project, 02-06/2014
  • Curatorial Assistance, Deadpan Exchange 8 - Mexico City, 03/2014
  • F Book Show, The Photo Book Show, 72Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2014
  • Oye! Arts & Culture, Oye! Times, Toronto, Canada 2014
  • Directions, Sonic Terrain - World Listening Day Compilation, 2014
  • Leeds Artist Book Fair, Leeds, UK, 2014
  • Small Publishers Fair, London, UK, 2013
  • Sheffield International Artist Book Prize, Sheffield, UK, 2013
  • Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2013
  • Bristol Artist Book Event, Bristol, UK 2013
  • Glasgow International Artist Book Fair, (GIAB) Glasgow, UK 2013
  • Lancashire International Film Event, Lancashire, 2013
  • Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship, University of The Arts, London, 2015

Reviews
  • Cunningham, Leanne (2015) Hanover Project, Still Now Is Then Forever, 2015
  • Cunningham, Leanne (2015) The Bluecoat, Listening,  2015
  • Cunningham, Leanne (2014) Robert Heinecken, Lessons In Posing Subjects, 2014 
  • Cunningham, Leanne (2014) Michael Nyman, Aztecs in Liverpool, 2014
  • Cunningham, Leanne (2014) Ian Constabile, Static Music , 2014




















  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • CV
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • COLLAGE
  • SOUND
  • READ
  • PROJECTS
    • Notes from the Land, 2025
    • Until We Travel, 2020
    • Your Tongue Is Better Than My Cocoon, 2017
    • Narrating the Urban Space, 2017
    • Reading as Listening, Soundings as Text Forming a Collective Memory, 2016
    • The Hush We Hear In The Air Still Holds, 2014
    • Compositional Venice, 2014
    • TEN:TWO, 2012
  • LONELY STONE PRESS