MARK LEAHY is a writer, artist and curator operating among textual practices, performance and visual arts. Recent publications include essays in Performance Research and The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice; a chapter in The Blackwell Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007); and an essay on John James and the visual arts in The Salt Companion to John James (2010). Curated projects include ‘Public Pages’ for the conference Poetry and Public Language (University of Plymouth, 2007). ‘Swatches’, a poetry sequence was published by Acts of Language (December 2009), and texts have appeared in UK and US journals. ‘After Durer after Mantegna’, an emblem combining text and image, was installed in the Window Work series at DXDX Studios, Plymouth (Aug 2011). Recent performance and live work includes ‘Voice Recognition’ at Chapter and Verse Festival (Bluecoat, Liverpool, Oct 2011), participation in DIY8: Queer Eye Enquiry with Chris Goode (Sept-Oct 2011), and Performance Market (Plymouth, January 2010). He has written texts to accompany work by other artists, including Teresa Grimaldi’s The Vacated Works (Isle of Wight, 2009), Katy Connor’s Pure Flow (Exeter, 2009), and ‘Aftermath’ for Deirdre Power’s project Brokenland (Limerick, Summer 2011), and was commissioned by Market Project to write on the work of Martha Winter (December 2011). He was Director of Writing at Dartington College of Arts (2005-2007), and was MA Programme Leader at Dartington Campus, University College Falmouth (2007-2010). He teaches part-time and supervises PhD students at University College Falmouth, and works freelance as an arts project manager.