Having graduated in 2021 from the Edinburgh College of Art, Leah has gone on to exhibit work at the Hidden Door Festival, Bankside Gallery, Tate Britain and the Saatchi Gallery. She has had solo shows at the Fire Station Creative, Alchemy Experiment and the Pier Arts Centre. She is a winner of the Astaire Art Prize and was shortlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize in 2024.
Education
Painting (BA hons), the Edinburgh College of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2024
‘If only I knew the way’, The Pier Arts Centre, 28-36 Victoria St, Stromness KW16 3AA, 21st June – 17th August
‘Squishing Flies’, The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byers Road, Glasgow, G12 8TS
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
2024
‘The Walls Between Us’, Saatchi Gallery, London, Gallery 4, 17th October – 25th November
Jackson’s Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton St, London SE1 9JB
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
Longlisted, BTA Art Prize 2024
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/
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