Leigh Niland

After her BSc at the University of New Hampshire, Leigh Niland attended The Drawing Year at The Prince's Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School) before going on to complete an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art. Leigh is a figurative painter/printmaker whose practice is deeply rooted in drawing. Her work deals with themes of human emotional decay as manifested in the built environment. Her paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited internationally including: WW Gallery, London and Venice Biennale 2009, 2011; Empire Gallery, London, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, the University of New Hampshire Museum and at Works on Paper in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Leigh is also the recipient of artists’ residencies including Dumfries House, Scotland 2014; the Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India 2012, Vermont Studio Center 2010 and Chateau de Balleroy, France 2005. Niland’s work is represented in private and public collections including the permanent collections of the University of New Hampshire Museum of Art; Teti Library, NH; Hackney Archives, London; and HRH The Prince of Wales. A contributor in The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State 2012, Niland has lectured at New Hampshire Institute of Art, New England College, and the International Institute of Fine Arts in Modinagar, India where she was awarded the Royal Drawing School's International Teaching and Art Residency in 2012.