About
i have spent my life looking at things people would rather look away from
not because they are hidden
because they are visible
visible and ignored
my work begins there
to interrupt the arrangements we mistake for reality
to build spaces where looking away becomes impossible
the rest belongs to the room.
Selected Exhibitions
2026 ‘HOW ARE YOU’ – Installation, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, DE.
2025 ‘FEEL ME’ – Installation, Trapholt Museum, Kolding, DK.
2023 ‘IT’S OK’ – Large Typographic Sculpture, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK.
2022 ‘A RELATIONAL SPACE’ – Large Typographic Sculpture, Clifton Park Museum, UK.
2021 ‘RELOAD KINDNESS’ – Typographic 3D Mapping Projection on Minster, UK.
2021 ‘SEE ME’ – A Virtual Reality Exposure Experience, BDD Foundation & OCD Action, UK.
2018 ‘IDENTITY’ – Exhibition, ZebraOne Gallery, London, UK.
2017 ‘Body Dysmorphic Disorder Explored’ – Exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
2016 ‘Love Is Louder’ – Exhibition, Coterie Gallery, UK.
2015 ‘Exposure: MyBrokenReality’ – Installation, UK.
2015 ‘Exposure’ – BDD Foundation, University of London, Brunei Gallery, London, UK.
2014 ‘Strange’ – Video Installation, South Place Gallery, London, UK.
2014 ‘Strange’ – Video Installation, Red Gallery, London, UK.
SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2018 TALKEX17 – Projected #Leighisms, in association with Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance, UK.
2017 Gozra Lozano, ‘DECADEnce’ featuring Leigh de Vries, La Fresh Gallery, Madrid, ES.
2016 VOYD – Falk Klemm Video Installation, London, UK.
2014 Fernando Carpaneda – Coquetel de reinauguração da Galeria Almeida Prado, BR.
2013 Art Takes Times Square – Fernando Carpaneda & Leigh de Vries, displayed on giant LED screens, NY, USA.
ACHIEVEMENTS
2023 Awarded Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, UK.
2021 Awarded Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, UK.
2015 Awarded Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, UK.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
2018 ‘Breaking Boundaries for Museums’ – Ironbridge Museum Trust & Arts Council England, UK.
2016 ‘How to Use the Arts to Engage Young People’ – Ironbridge Museum Trust & Arts Council England, UK.
2016 ‘National Eating Disorders Awareness Week’ – Syeda, UK.
2015 ‘The Cultural Prescription: How Can the Arts Support Health & Wellbeing?’ – Museum Development Yorkshire & Arts Council England, UK.
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