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CV:

Leo Plumb is an artist, working in Glasgow. His practice encompasses drawing, photography and sculpture. In cross-media projects he draws on the economics of labour and urban environments with a strong interest in places associated with recreation or work. A student of Glasgow School of Art, Leeds Metropolitan University and Estonian Academy of Arts, Leo helped found Mexico Project Space, a curatorial group in Leeds from 2011-2014. This project responded to the artists-led movement which followed the 2008 economic crash.

Recent projects include: Intermittent residencies at The Briggait,Off Page 2024 at Many Studios and presenting collaborative works as Distance, Speed, Time with Celia Garcia, Julie Laing, Leila Smith and Sebastian Tay.

Solo

2025
Curious Flat Pipes, Creative Exchange Perth, (UK)

2017
Four folding corners, Mount Florida Studios, Glasgow (UK)

Group

2023
150 Years, The Briggait - Glasgow Open Doors Festival
2023 Off-Page, Many Studios, Glasgow

2021
Dystance, Mount Florida Studio Space
Closer, Online and Glasgow Open House Arts Festival

2018
Standstill, CrownPoint Studios, Glasgow, (UK)
(inter)twine, Supernormal, (Singapore)

2017
Residual, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow (UK)
Tumultuous Noise, BlipBlipBlip, Patrick Studios, Leeds (UK) http://blipblipblip.co.uk/archive/Tumultuous_Noise.html

2016
Postgraduate Degree Show, Tontine Building, Glasgow School of Art (UK)
No Expected Outcome: IOTA Gallery, Glasgow (UK)
I miss you forever and ever Norway xoxo, BlipBlipBlip, Patrick Studios, Leeds (UK) http://blipblipblip.co.uk/archive/Norway.html
Four Words: January, Liverpool (UK) http://alandunn67.co.uk/fourwords.html

2015
Empty Your Pockets, Pocket Gallery, Rekjavik (Iceland)
After Nature, Nordisk Kunstnarsenter, Dale (Norway)
Project Radio, &Model Gallery and radio broadcast, Leeds (UK)

2014
SEIZE presents Overtime, Wellington Park House, Leeds (UK)
Northern Young Artists Members Exhibition, Redbrook Studios Barnsley (UK)

2012
Collective Body Retrospective, UFMG, Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
Northern Young Artists Showcase, Left Bank Church, Leeds (UK)

2011
New Young Leeds 2011, The Corn Exchange, Leeds (UK)

2010
Collective Body, Leeds Metropolitan University, Broadcasting Place, Leeds (UK) 2010
Ettevaatlikult (Careful-step), Central Post Office, Tallinn (Estonia)

Curatorial, Research & Residencies

Off Page 2024, Many Studios, Glasgow (UK) 2024

Phenomenon Dark room Part 2, Presentation of works and performance by Sebastian Tay, Mount Florida Studio and Gallery, Glasgow (UK) 2017

Building Shaped Knowledge: Defining Spatially Bound Knowing in Community Work. Postgraduate research, The Glasgow School of Art, with thanks to Glasgow Life (Culture and Sport Glasgow CSG) (UK) 2016

European Exchange Academy, Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale (Norway) 2015

Mexico Project Space, Curatorial board, Leeds (UK) 2011-2013 https://www.facebook.com/MexicoProjectSpace/

The Undertakers, research and performance, Leeds and Theatre in the Mill, Bradford (UK) 2013
Sculpture and Performance Programmes, Eesti KunstiAkadeemia (EKA), Tallinn (Estonia) 2009-2010

Lecturing

Snakes and ladders & Deskilling and Reskilling lecture series, for: Participatory Art and Socialism, BA Performance Art and Digital Art, 2018-2019, Paisley
Time in Moving Image, New Media Art University of the West of Scotland (UK), 2019-2021
Moving Records and PHOTOGRAPHIC ID, workshop programmes YCSA, Glasgow (UK) 2016 - 2019
APD Lecture, The Tetley, Leeds (UK) 2015
Futures Lecture series, Fine Art Department, Leeds Beckett University, (UK) 2013- 2015
Create and Inspire 2013 - The Crossway Foundation, Leeds (UK) 2013
Opera North, Education workshop programme, Leeds (UK) 2013

Features

Anamorphism in Richard Taylor's Work, Love Without Limits, reader/publication, edited by Richard Taylor and Natalia Masewicz-Ścibior Glasgow School of Art, (UK) 2018
Artists Cookbook, reader/publication. Edited by Rudy Kanhye and published by inkCONCRETE Publishing, Glasgow, (UK) 2017
Stimulus Respond, Issue 14: Post-truth, (2017) http://www.stimulusrespond.com/
X: Members Publication, Embassy gallery, Edinburgh (2015) http://embassygallery.org/egarchive08-15/projects/x-2

Education
Masters of Research in Creative Practices, the Glasgow School of Art 2015 - 2016
Academic Professional Diploma in Creative practice, Leeds Beckett University 2014 - 2015
BA Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University 2008 - 2011