Curriculum Vitae: Professional
Mark Leahy
Project Management and Arts Administration
project lead on KINections, an artist professional-development project for CAMP (Contemporary Art Membership Platform), April 2025 – June 2026
convenor of panel on ‘Art & Writing’ for Parallels/Encounters: Art, Words and their Meetings, part of Synesthesia II, Cultivator, Cornwall; June 2022
mentor for the VAP Platform project for Plymouth Art Weekender 2018, funded by Horizon Project Plymouth and Arts Council England, January – October 2018
organising committee member for In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language, art.earth, Dartington Hall, June 2017
organising committee member for Language Landscape and the Sublime, art.earth and Schumacher College, June 2016
project manager for Liminal on Organ of Corti (PRSF New Music Award); UK tour to five sites and festivals; February – August 2011
creative producer of MA Platform in Art, Performance and Writing; Dartington Campus, University College Falmouth; September 2007; September 2008; September 2009; July 2010.
curator of exhibition ‘Public Pages’ as part of conference Poetry and Public Language 2007 at School of English, University of Plymouth (April 2007)
curator with Deborah Price of the exhibition Performance Writing 1994-2004; Exeter Phoenix Galleries, April 29 – May 16 2004; the Gallery, Dartington College of Arts, May 24-30 2004; Fine Arts Gallery, George Mason University, November 10 – 18 2004
tour manager on Bobby Baker’s Box Story, and project manager for Artsadmin on Bobby Baker’s Box Story at LIFT’01, London and UK; May 2001 – August 2003
organiser and administrator on Verbal inter Visual for Gresham College, London; and joint curator on the accompanying exhibition with Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design; April 2000 – May 2001
Board Positions and Directorships
Co-director of CAMP (Contemporary Arts Membership Platform) (www.camp-membership.org), UK – 2021 to present
Co-chair of the Board of Trustees of Take A Part CIO (takeapart.org.uk), UK – 2016 to present
Board member of Soundart Radio (soundartradio.org.uk), Devon – 2019 to 2025
Founding director of art.earth (artdotearth.org), Devon – 2016 to 2021
Director of Greda Ltd, London – 2001 to 2003
Founding director of Bright Boy Productions, Dublin – 1994-1997
Member of All + 10 Sorts Cooperative Studios Gallery, Limerick – 1986 to 1988
University Teaching Experience
Associate Lecturer; Academy of Innovation and Research; Falmouth University; October 2007 – the present. PhD supervision, research student training, examination and viva chairing.
Associate Lecturer; Department of Fine Art, University of Plymouth; October 2014 – July 2025. Design and delivery of modules for BA and MA Fine Art.
Associate Lecturer; Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Plymouth; October 2016 – 2023. Design and delivery of modules in MA Creative Writing.
Associate Lecturer; School of Writing and Journalism, Falmouth University; October 2011 – June 2016. Design and delivery of creative and critical modules for BA English and Writing.
Associate Lecturer; Academy of Music and Theatre Arts, Falmouth University; October 2010 – June 2015. Teaching and tutorials on BA Performance.
MA Programme Leader; Dartington Campus, University College Falmouth; October 2007 – September 2010. Coordination and lead for portfolio of linked creative MA awards.
Director of Writing; Dartington College of Arts; September 2005 – October 2007. Coordination and lead of BA and MA programme in Performance Writing.
Lecturer in Writing; Dartington College of Arts; October 2003 – October 2007. Design and delivery of modules on BA and MA Performance Writing.
Visiting Lecturer; Department of Visual Media and Culture, University of Middlesex; September 2001 – May 2004. Design and delivery of teaching and tutorials across BA programme in art and design.
Curriculum Development Experience
Development of MFA Contemporary Art Practices; University of Plymouth (2017-2018)
Developing modules in Poetry for Performance and Publication, Critical Practices for Creative Writing, Writing and Digital Practices for Theatre, and Publication and Performance; Falmouth University (2012-2015)
Developing Modules for Minor Award in Textual Practices, developing content for BA (Hons) Writing modules, participation in Taught MA Programme Review process; Dartington College of Arts (2006-2010)
Module design and development of Writing for Art and Design Students, Department of Visual Media and Culture, University of Middlesex (2003-2004)
Residencies and Workshop Experience
The Cornwall Workshop, week-long residential workshop at Kestle Barton, Cornwall, led by artist Ane Hjort Guttu, delivered by CAST, Helston, March 2026
Considering Time, joint-lead (with Marilyn Arsem) on a week-long residential workshop and performances at Live Art Ireland, June 2024
MarjonXRame Summer School, a weekend performance practice and pedagogy residency, Rame Projects, Maker, Cornwall, July 2022
‘Enter Text’ (month-long funded residency on a theme of art / text / performance) Arteles Creative Centre, Finland, November 2018
‘Telling Time’, a Communal Making session for Jamboree 2018, Dartington, Devon, June 2018.
‘Redefining Print’ (year-long funded residency and Exeter Portfolio print commission ‘extending the language of contemporary print’), Double Elephant Print Workshop, Exeter, November 2014 to November 2015
Selected Critical Publications
‘Contextualising “his voice”: Disrupted Utterance in a Digital Material Interface.’ Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures no. 20, 2019. doi:10.20415/hyp/020.int01
‘Disrupting the Market in Echoes: Voice, body and technology in poetry and performance by Hannah Weiner and Holly Pester’, Performance Research, 23:2, pp. 75-81, June 2018 DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1464761
‘apologies for blanks or laments for dumbness: Tina Darragh’s Opposable Dumbs as open source and/or open content’, C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings, 4(1), p.4. (2016) DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/c21.4
“it is the act and not the object of perception that matters”: MacGreevy’s poetry in relation to perception in literary and visual arts, in The Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy: A Critical Reappraisal, Susan Schreibman, ed., Bloomsbury Academic, June 2013
‘Hand in Glove – sinister hand vested sable lozengy couped’ in Open Letter, 14th series, no. 8; ‘Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics’ (guest-edited by Nancy Gillespie and Peter Jaeger), (Spring 2012), pp 74-82, ISSN 0048-1939
‘glossing Speakers, or bookmaking for amateurs’, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 2:1, pp. 55-67, June 2009