Borders & Boundaries: Artist Talk Series // Leah Gordon

Join us for our second engaging artist talk series with Hereford College of Arts.

Following the success of the 2025 Artist Talk series, Meadow Arts and Hereford College of Arts present Borders & Boundaries. In this second series, the new programme invites five artists whose practices explore borders, boundaries and marginal spaces, to offer their critical perspectives on identity, place and belonging.

Leah Gordon is a multi-media artist who curates, collects, researches, writes, educates and directs. She works across a variety of media including photography, film and installations, often including commissioned sculpture and painting. In the 1980’s she wrote lyrics, sang and played for the feminist folk punk band, ‘The Doonicans’. 

Leah makes work on Modernism and architecture; the slave trade and industrialisation; and grassroots religious, class and folk histories. Gordon’s film and photographic work has been exhibited internationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Dak’art Biennale; the National Portrait Gallery, UK; Parc de la Villette, Paris and NSU Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. She is the co-director of the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and was a curator for the Haitian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.

Leah’s solo exhibition Monument to the Vanquished Peasant (3 October 2025 – 25 January 2026) was commissioned by Meadow Arts the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, in partnership with Coventry Biennial. This major exhibition explored the devastating impact of land enclosures on people and land across England. Through photography, montage and constructed images, it offers a radical reimagining of English history and society.

This talk series follows an incredible 2024 line-up that saw the likes of Hetain Patel and Bobby Baker visit our campus.

Funded in part by the Arts Council, and curated and delivered in partnership with the wonderful contemporary visual arts charity Meadow Arts, the series is proud to bring some of the leading voices in UK contemporary art to Hereford.

The series is free to attend - although advanced booking is always recommended due to high demand. We hope to see you at an event soon.