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Liquid Bodies in Bodies of Water Joanna Leah and Liz Stirling
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Watermarks an artist collective drawing with water across the UK
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GULP - Embodied Bird Studies at Hilbre Archipelago, photograph by Dominic Wilkinson
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Lead Curator for 'Drawing Out Hilbre' with BADA British Art & Design Association with Indy Biennial Liverpool 2025
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Wise Women with Gillian Dyson, Anne Schiffer and Lizzie Coombes.Projects on mature women researchers in the art institution
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Podcast series interviewing artists and researchers on their creative research methods for PARTICPATE Research Cluster at Leeds Beckett University
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Academic Housework: Feminist Narratives in the Arts Academy Co-Edited with Gillian Dyson featuring the Wise Women projects and an anthology of essays and visual works.
Projects
Wise WomenWise Women 1, was a RDF-funded project in 2022 working with Early Career Researchers and mature women in the Leeds School of Arts. Joanna took the vehicle of a dance score and invented a floor diagram of conversation zones to facilitate the development of an Leeds School of Arts creative publication using the methods of diagram making to facilitate the Manifesto statements in a collaborative work.
Book publication - Academic houseworkAcademic Housework: Feminist Narratives in the Arts Academy Co-Editors Gillian Dyson and Joanna Leah including case studies from the Wise Women project series. 
WatermarksA collective working with drawing with water coming together through the Drawing UK Correspondence residency with Anita Taylor and Tania Kovats. We were also worked with Chloe Briggs from Drawing is Free and Jo Lewis. Watermarks is now part of the DRA|W Research Lab at Leeds Beckett University and has also been part of the Hilbre Project in 2025.