photo credit Alja Terentjeva
Hannah Dargavel-Leafe


studio@hannahdargavel-leafe.co.uk
@hannah.dl

artist working in London, UK

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sound releases are for sale
please get in touch for a portfolio of drawings and prints for sale


Education

2016 MA Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL 
2010 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester School of Art, MMU 



    Solo Shows

Fore Main Mizzen
CAVE Gallery, Leeds
2018

East Tower (collaboration with Jack West)
Caustic Coastal, Salford, commissioned by White Noise
2017

Small Connecting Part
International 3, Salford
2014



Performances

(upcoming)
Jurby
Noise Table, Walthamstow Trade Hall
28th October 2026

Jurby
Servants Jazz Quarter, London
2025

Black Soup
Art:Sci Biennial, Art + Design Gallery, University of           Hertfordshire, Hatfield
2025

Black Soup
Calling Cards Publishing Showcase Cafe Oto, London
2022

Black Soup
Kate Carr’s record launch Forma Arts and Media HQ, London
2021

improvised performance with found records and dublates at The Field is Not a Field Iklectik, London
2020

performance at Constructions #2 TACO! Gallery, London
2019

performance at Whitechapel Presents 01 Whitechapel Gallery, London
2018
Releases

Fountains 
cassette tape
Eminent Observer, USA
2020

Fore Main Mizzen 
vinyl with hand printed sleeve
Calling Cards Publishing, UK
2018

Whales Have Hind Legs
cassette tape with printed insert
Sacred Tapes, UK
2018 


Selected Group Shows

Invasive Species
SKLAD, Sukhum Abkhazia
2025

Mind + Matter: Towards Co-Creation
Art:Sci Biennial
Art+Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
2025

Warm Spell 
curated by Continuous Tone at abC Art Book Fair, Beijing, China
2022

A Kiss Rendered Tragic, contemporary drawing 
Mirabel Studios, Manchester
2022

East Tower (film screening) 
TBCTV, Somerset House, London
2018

Maj
Maskinhuset residency and summer exhibition, Sweden
2018

East Tower (film screening)
Spit That Out, part of Random Acts North Weekender HOME, Manchester
2018

The Eighth Wonder: a new soundtrack for King Kong (1933) 
&Model, Leeds in association with the Henry Moore Institute
2017

The Manchester Contemporary art fair, showing with The International 3, Manchester
2015

The Big Screen
Latitude Festival
2015

Inside Out
K11 Art Village, Wuhan, China
2015

Aversion Management
curated by Ahmed & Carpenter at Rogue Project Space, Manchester
2013

Democratic Promenade
The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2011

House Work
The International 3, Manchester
2011

How It All Worked Out
The International 3, Manchester
2010