Join artist Leah Hickey as she responds to Charlotte Dawson’s exhibition If Memory Serves Me Well.

The evening will include a live reading of Offering, a poetic work that reflects on remembrance, grief, and acts of giving. Through spoken word and ritual, the performance considers how language, material, and landscape can become vessels for connection with those who have passed.

As part of the event, visitors will receive a limited-edition letterpress print produced especially for the occasion. These prints extend the themes of the performance, creating a shared moment between artist and audience.

Following the reading, participants will be invited to join a collective procession from the gallery to the Humber. At the river's edge, Leah will undertake a symbolic act of offering, gifting a biodegradable printed work to the water with the intention of it travelling onwards as a gesture of remembrance.

The artist is currently developing this new element of the work through research into sustainable, biodegradable printing materials and environmentally sensitive production methods, ensuring the gesture remains both poetic and ecologically considered.

Offering invites audiences to reflect on memory, loss, ritual, and the enduring relationship between people, place, and the natural world.

About Leah Hickey

Leah Hickey is an artist and writer struck by 'heartache', a term she uses to wade through the spectrum of grief. Hickey translates these experiences through confessional writing, calligraphy, and heritage crafts 'at risk' of extinction, such as letterpress. Her work is emotionally led and influenced by Romantic thought, Christian morality and women on film.

In 2025, Hickey was awarded Arts Council England (ACE) funding to develop Tentative Press. She was also recipient of the Sir Whitworth Wallis Fellowship (2025-26) with Birmingham Museums Trust, researching the social and material histories of Victorian-era Valentines. Through 2026-28, Hickey is studying MA by Research in Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, for which she has received the UK Academic Achievement Scholarship.

​ www.leahhickey.com

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