Intellect

Mark Leahy is a writer, artist and curator. He operates between textual practice, performance and visual arts. Recent publications include critical essays on a bookwork by performance company These Horses, an essay on the audience as readers of digital text installations, and an essay on the relation to the visual arts in the work of poet John James. He has written texts to accompany installed and performance works by Katy Connor, Teresa Grimaldi, and his curated projects include the exhibition Public Pages for the conference Poetry and Public Language at University of Plymouth (2007). His poetry sequence 'Swatches' was published by Acts of Language (December 2009), and individual text pieces have appeared in magazines and journals. He has presented live works in Live Art Falmouth (June 2008) and Performance Market (Plymouth, January 2010).

He has taught on Visual Culture courses at Middlesex University (2001-2004) and on Writing courses at Dartington College of Arts where he also led the MA Programme (2007-2010). He is a Ph.D. supervisor at University College Falmouth, and works freelance as a project manager in arts and performance. www.markleahy.net