Leah Moodie is a 2021 painting graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art. Having been brought up in the Orkney Islands and now living and working in Glasgow, Moodie paints in order to navigate her feelings of homesickness anxiety. She creates melancholic visions of displaced domestic scenes: painted onto sheer PVC shower curtains, her works emanate an enticing ghostly lustre. By contrasting realism with painterly mark making, Moodie is both the creator of and participant in her quiet yet resonant dramas. She strives to trigger a sensation of familiarity and nostalgia in the viewer for imagined narratives that they have never experienced.
Moodie is a winner of the ECA’s Astaire Art Prize and has had work exhibited at Edinburgh’s Hidden Door Festival, the Pier Arts Centre and digitally shown at the Tate Britain.
Contact
leah.m7@hotmail.com
Upcoming Exhibitions
‘Squishing Flies’, Solo Show, The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byers Road, Glasgow, G12 8TS, 6th - 13th June 2024
‘If only I knew the way’, Solo Show, The Pier Arts Centre, 28-36 Victoria St, Stromness KW16 3AA, 21st June - 17th August 2024
Jackson’s Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton St, London SE1 9JB, 30th July - 4th August 2024
Solo Exhibitions
2022
‘Dazed’, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline 1st-31st Dec, funded by the Hope Scott Trust Fund
The Hen Collective Presents: Leah Moodie, Babka, Edinburgh
2021
‘D.I.Y Degree Show’, Student Flat, Edinburgh
Group Exhibitions
2023
SOTA Marketplace ‘Accessible Art Fair’ The LabE20, East Village, London, E20 1JB
‘Stronghold’, Duo Exhibition with Mhairi McPhail, Salt Space Gallery, Glasgow
Foundry Films Launch Event, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh
'Flowers don’t compete (fleurs don’t compete), they just grow/Grow at your own pace, go your own way’, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow
2022
The Hen Collective Retrospective 2, Blunt Knife Co., 41 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
ALT-D ‘Tenderfoot’, Edinburgh Palette, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh
‘Creative Variants’, The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
2021
‘Life Between Islands (Finding Home)’, Tate Britain, London
‘Skaters for Mental Health’, Transgression Park, Edinburgh
Hidden Door Festival, Granton Gasworks, Edinburgh
ECA Graduate Show, Edinburgh College of Art
2020
Annual Open Exhibition, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
‘New Becoming Normal’, Portobello - @newbecomingnormal
‘The Marriage of Tradition and Modernity’, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath
GP-Plus and The Bridge Awards, GP-Plus, Dundas Street, Edinburgh
2019
‘Sa-lon, Suckers’, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh
Collections
2021
Mark Astaire, purchased and donated “They Say Jump You Say How High, 2020” to the Orkney Library as part of the Orkney Museum’s Collection
2020
“I’m Just Sitting Here Looking At Pretty Colours, 2019”, GP Plus, Edinburgh, Dundas Street
Awards
Shortlisted, Jackson’s Art Prize 2024
Winner, The Astaire Art Prize 2020
Features
Vague Magazine Issue 29, 2022, Page 2
Vague Magazine Issue 23, 2021, Page 2
The Orcadian, July 21, 2021, Page 16, “Bringing a Touch of Colour to the Orkney Library - Award-winning painting by Leah Moodie goes on permanent display after generous donation”
RAG X SE7EN, 2021 “International Women’s Day Zine”, https://issuu.com/ragxse7en/docs/rag_x_se7en_iwd_zine__2_?fbclid=IwAR3V-nMh1ICGp1euFVhlZ4ManPVjG_nfM6BUN7xV791tvCbQsG8Wk7_f8Fs
GUM, 2020 "Home" issue Page 35, https://www.glasgowuniversitymagazine.co.uk/home-issue/