overview of the last 6 months

A local voice, conversation series iiii, collective sculpture - essay booklet (click to view)
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​LEILA HOUSTON PORTFOLIO (CLICK TO VIEW)


a local voice video (click to view)

A Video, sound & installation 
Showing at Summer Art Thread 
LCB Depot, Leicester 
26:08:17 
11:00- 21:00

An expansive collaboration between Leila Houston,
participants and musicians.

Booklet 

Collaborating with another artist 'Madonna & Child The Crash Work by Leila Houston & Noel Grassy Macken 

The Crash, London 

A Local Voice exhibition set-up at Summer Art Thread (part of City Festival), LCB Depot, Leicester, UK.

Photo by Phil Dickson-Earle

Photo by Andy Valente

Photo by Roger Jones

Photo by Courtney Askey

Photo by Andy Valente

Photo by Andy Valente

Summer Art Thread (part of City Festival), LCB Depot, Leicester, UK, 28.8.17

A Local Voice, participatory event at Two Queens Project space & Studio, 5-6.8.17. Photography by Leila Houston and Tove Dalenius.

Technical support & Artist Tove Noorrjahaan Dalenius &  Artist assistant-  Jodie Shadforth taken just before two day work shop 

my Studio at Two Queens

On the radio with Anna Laurini THE NEWS AGENTS Resonance FM (listen here) 

Discussion with Artist Aby Mackie in Barcelona 

Performance by Anne Imhof work, Faust, German pavilion. Venice 
"​Freedom and the question of what keeps people together and indeed what drives people apart?"

David Medella in Giardini Venice Biennale

Venice Conversation Series III, screening at Empire II in London. Photo by Jessica Baley.

The Journey of Empire II exhibition  & The Crash 

Fit the Slit, artist collaboration in Venice. 

Working in clay with Dean Allen at his studio in Nottingham 

media highlights

Artist’s work on isolation joins select company, Leicester Mercury newspaper, 18.6.17
The Newsagents, Resonance radio 104.4fm, 8.7.17
Feature: Leila Houston, The Great Central magazine, 8.6.17
Graduate Leila Houston sees her work showcased in world-leading arts festival in Venice, De Montfort University, 23.5.17
Empire II is an artist led satellite project devised and curated by Vanya Balogh for the 57th Biennale di Venezia, FAD: cool art & stuff, 7.5.17
Vanya Balogh Curates Immersive Film Hub Satellite Project For 56th Venice Biennale, Artlyst, 6.4.17
A Local Voice – Art connects with Leicester community, Arts Council England, 23.8.17
Age of Anxiety, :venews magazine, issue 216 venice guide