Artist Information
Ursula Leach
TRAINED
Winchester, Wimbledon and West Surrey College of Art and Design
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024 Hedge Story, The Art Stable, Dorset
2021 The Art Stable, Blandford, Dorset
2020 Here and There, Oliver Contemporary, London
2017 Within Bounds, The Art Stable, Blandford, Dorset
2016 The Colour of Things, Oliver Contemporary, London
2013 The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset
2011 The Arthouse, Bournemouth
2010 The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset
2010 The John Creasy Museum, Salisbury
2008 Oliver Contemporary, London
2006 Oliver Contemporary, London
2002 Attendi, London
2001 Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
1996 Attendi, London
1994 Southampton City Art Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Ancient Trees, Group Exhibition with The Arborealists, Nature in Art Gallery, Gloucester
2024 Dorset Art Weeks with Group 7, The Slade Centre, Dorset
2024 The Instinct of Hope, Group Exhibition, Fine Foundation Gallery, Swanage
2024 London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, London
2024 Regeneration, Hansard Studio, London
2023 International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2023 AceArts Open, Somerton, Somerset
2022 Trees and The Sacred, The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral. Guest Artist.
2022 Millfield Open, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
2022 Nadia Waterfield Fine Art, Stockbridge and Bruton
2021 International Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2021 Off the Wall Buckinghamshire County Museum
2021 Twenty Years, Oliver Contemporary, London
2021 Nadia Waterfield Fine Art, Stockbridge & Bruton
2021 The Arborealists, Salisbury, Staffordshire & Bermondsey Project Space, London
2020 Nadia Waterfield Fine Art, Stockbridge & Bruton
2020 The Arborealists, Salisbury, Staffordshire & Bermondsey Project Space, London
2020 Field and Feather, Two Person Show, The Slade Centre, Dorset
2020 The London Art Fair, Islington, London
2019 The Arborealists, Salisbury, Staffordshire & Bermondsey Project Space, London
2019 Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset with Group7
2019 Summer Exhibition, Oliver Contemporary, London
2019 Summer Exhibition, Campden, Gallery, Gloucestershire
2019 Made in Britain, Oliver Contemporary, London
2019 Connect Art Fair, London with The Art Stable, Dorset
2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2018 National Open Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2017 The Masters, London
2017 Marshwood Arts Awards, Bridport Art Centre
2017/16 Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum with Group 7
2016 The Gallery at Duke's, Dorchester with The Art Stable
2016 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2016/17 The Project Gallery, Arundel
2015/16/17 National Open Print Exhibition, London
2015/16 The Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford, Devon
2015 St. Anne's Gallery, Lewes
2014 Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, London
2014 RWA Open, Bristol
2014 RE Open, Bankside Gallery, London
2014 Open Print, Salisbury Art Centre
2014 Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
2014-15 Highgate Contemporary Art, London
2014 Millfield Open, Somerset
2013 Hilton Fine Art, Bath
2013 Highgate Contemporary Art, London. Three-person show
2012 RE International Open, Bankside Gallery London
2012 Evolution, Frink and the Next Generation, Bournemouth University
2011-15 Works on consignment to Marlborough Graphics, London
2011/12 Art in the Shadow of The Chase, Dorset County Museum & Salisbury Museum
2011 Print and Design Now, Bearspace and SW1 Gallery, London
2009 Open 09 – Drawing, Salisbury Arts Centre
2009 Clifford Chance, London
2009-15 The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset
2008 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London. Invited artist
2010/9/8 London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2007 The Study Gallery @ The Lighthouse, Poole. Two-person show
2006-09/13 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2006 -15 Arflex, Osaka and Toyko, Japan
2005/02 &1995 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
2004 –06 Elemental Insight, Met. Office, Exeter and tour
2003 –07 Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2002 -15 Oliver Contemporary, London
2002 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1994-2003 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1999 R.W.A., Bristol
1996 Redfern Gallery, London
1993 The London Group, Barbican, London
COLLECTIONS
Ashmolean Museum, Worthing Hospital, St. Marks Hospital, London, The Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, Dorset County Hospital, Kirklees Museums, The Curwen Archive, The House of Lords & The Creasey Collection, Durham University and The Victoria & Albert Museum
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Badger Press Award 2016 (National Open Print Exhibition). Prizewinner, Cover competition Dorset Art Weeks 2016. Intaglio Printmaking Prize 2009, The Curwen Print Studio Prize 2005, The RK Burt Etching Prize 1993, South West Arts Award 1996, Southern Arts Award 1989
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Within Bounds (Annette Ratusniak), The Colour of Things (Jane Rye), The Week 2016, Landscape Plotted and Pieced (Andrew Lambirth) 2013. The Wall Street Journal 2013, Open Frequency (Prof. Simon Olding), www.axisweb.org 2013, The Spectator (Andrew Lambirth) 2012, Circles & Tangents 2011 (Vivienne Light), Art in the Shadow of Cranborne Chase 2011, The Public Catalogue Foundation, Printmakers Secrets 2009, The Week 2008, 50 Wessex Artists (Evolver Books) 2007, The Week 2006, Galleries Magazine 2006, Contemporary Art 1994, The Printmakers Directory, Collagraphs & Mixed Media Printmaking 2005, Elemental Insight Catalogue 2004, A Flight over Cranborne Chase, Growing Concerns Catalogue 2001, Contemporary Art 1994
Winchester, Wimbledon and West Surrey College of Art and Design
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024 Hedge Story, The Art Stable, Dorset
2021 The Art Stable, Blandford, Dorset
2020 Here and There, Oliver Contemporary, London
2017 Within Bounds, The Art Stable, Blandford, Dorset
2016 The Colour of Things, Oliver Contemporary, London
2013 The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset
2011 The Arthouse, Bournemouth
2010 The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset
2010 The John Creasy Museum, Salisbury
2008 Oliver Contemporary, London
2006 Oliver Contemporary, London
2002 Attendi, London
2001 Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
1996 Attendi, London
1994 Southampton City Art Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Ancient Trees, Group Exhibition with The Arborealists, Nature in Art Gallery, Gloucester
2024 Dorset Art Weeks with Group 7, The Slade Centre, Dorset
2024 The Instinct of Hope, Group Exhibition, Fine Foundation Gallery, Swanage
2024 London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, London
2024 Regeneration, Hansard Studio, London
2023 International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2023 AceArts Open, Somerton, Somerset
2022 Trees and The Sacred, The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral. Guest Artist.
2022 Millfield Open, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
2022 Nadia Waterfield Fine Art, Stockbridge and Bruton
2021 International Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2021 Off the Wall Buckinghamshire County Museum
2021 Twenty Years, Oliver Contemporary, London
2021 Nadia Waterfield Fine Art, Stockbridge & Bruton
2021 The Arborealists, Salisbury, Staffordshire & Bermondsey Project Space, London
2020 Nadia Waterfield Fine Art, Stockbridge & Bruton
2020 The Arborealists, Salisbury, Staffordshire & Bermondsey Project Space, London
2020 Field and Feather, Two Person Show, The Slade Centre, Dorset
2020 The London Art Fair, Islington, London
2019 The Arborealists, Salisbury, Staffordshire & Bermondsey Project Space, London
2019 Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset with Group7
2019 Summer Exhibition, Oliver Contemporary, London
2019 Summer Exhibition, Campden, Gallery, Gloucestershire
2019 Made in Britain, Oliver Contemporary, London
2019 Connect Art Fair, London with The Art Stable, Dorset
2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2018 National Open Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2017 The Masters, London
2017 Marshwood Arts Awards, Bridport Art Centre
2017/16 Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum with Group 7
2016 The Gallery at Duke's, Dorchester with The Art Stable
2016 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2016/17 The Project Gallery, Arundel
2015/16/17 National Open Print Exhibition, London
2015/16 The Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford, Devon
2015 St. Anne's Gallery, Lewes
2014 Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, London
2014 RWA Open, Bristol
2014 RE Open, Bankside Gallery, London
2014 Open Print, Salisbury Art Centre
2014 Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
2014-15 Highgate Contemporary Art, London
2014 Millfield Open, Somerset
2013 Hilton Fine Art, Bath
2013 Highgate Contemporary Art, London. Three-person show
2012 RE International Open, Bankside Gallery London
2012 Evolution, Frink and the Next Generation, Bournemouth University
2011-15 Works on consignment to Marlborough Graphics, London
2011/12 Art in the Shadow of The Chase, Dorset County Museum & Salisbury Museum
2011 Print and Design Now, Bearspace and SW1 Gallery, London
2009 Open 09 – Drawing, Salisbury Arts Centre
2009 Clifford Chance, London
2009-15 The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset
2008 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London. Invited artist
2010/9/8 London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2007 The Study Gallery @ The Lighthouse, Poole. Two-person show
2006-09/13 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2006 -15 Arflex, Osaka and Toyko, Japan
2005/02 &1995 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
2004 –06 Elemental Insight, Met. Office, Exeter and tour
2003 –07 Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2002 -15 Oliver Contemporary, London
2002 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1994-2003 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1999 R.W.A., Bristol
1996 Redfern Gallery, London
1993 The London Group, Barbican, London
COLLECTIONS
Ashmolean Museum, Worthing Hospital, St. Marks Hospital, London, The Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, Dorset County Hospital, Kirklees Museums, The Curwen Archive, The House of Lords & The Creasey Collection, Durham University and The Victoria & Albert Museum
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Badger Press Award 2016 (National Open Print Exhibition). Prizewinner, Cover competition Dorset Art Weeks 2016. Intaglio Printmaking Prize 2009, The Curwen Print Studio Prize 2005, The RK Burt Etching Prize 1993, South West Arts Award 1996, Southern Arts Award 1989
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Within Bounds (Annette Ratusniak), The Colour of Things (Jane Rye), The Week 2016, Landscape Plotted and Pieced (Andrew Lambirth) 2013. The Wall Street Journal 2013, Open Frequency (Prof. Simon Olding), www.axisweb.org 2013, The Spectator (Andrew Lambirth) 2012, Circles & Tangents 2011 (Vivienne Light), Art in the Shadow of Cranborne Chase 2011, The Public Catalogue Foundation, Printmakers Secrets 2009, The Week 2008, 50 Wessex Artists (Evolver Books) 2007, The Week 2006, Galleries Magazine 2006, Contemporary Art 1994, The Printmakers Directory, Collagraphs & Mixed Media Printmaking 2005, Elemental Insight Catalogue 2004, A Flight over Cranborne Chase, Growing Concerns Catalogue 2001, Contemporary Art 1994