AMY-LEIGH BIRD
London
amyleighbirdartist@gmail.com | www.amyleighbird.com

EDUCATION

MA, Creative Entrepreneurship — University of East Anglia
2018–2019 | Distinction

BA (Hons), Fine Art Painting & Printmaking — Glasgow School of Art
2013–2017 | 2:1

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026
Works on Paper — Green & Stone Gallery, Chelsea, London

2025
Secrets of the Thames — London Museum, London
Shaping the Moment — Artmoor House, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair — London

2024
Receding Shoreline — Electro Studios, Hastings
Innocent Pleasures Suit Me — Warbling Gallery, London

2023
Gathering Swallows — Talo Collections, London
Affordable Art Fair Battersea — with Tom Cox Gallery, London

FULL EXHIBITION HISTORY

2025
Secrets of the Thames — London Museum, London
Shaping the Moment — Artmoor House, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair — London

2024
Receding Shoreline — Electro Studios, Hastings
Innocent Pleasures Suit Me — Warbling Gallery, London
M2 (Group Show) — Tom Cox Gallery, London

2023
Gathering Swallows — Talo Collections, London
Affordable Art Fair Battersea — with Tom Cox Gallery, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair — London

2022
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair — London
Drip — Painting Ground, Leicester
Legacy — The Crypt, London
Materiality, a state of being — Kindred House, Margate
Between the Tides (Solo) — New Bond Street Gallery, London

2021
Limitless — Tom Cox Gallery, London
In the Heart / of the Heart / of Another Country: Neology of Newcomers — Artelsewhere, London
This Place Where I Stand — No.20 Arts Gallery, London

2019
Origins of Art (Solo) — West End Centre, London
Perspectives — Espacio Gallery, London
The Other Art Fair — Coal Drops Yard, London

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2024–2025
Natural History Museum — Invited residency responding to the offsite research collection of whale bones and specimens

2024
Cape Town, South Africa — Month-long residency developing new work inspired by landscape and material collaboration

2023
KosaMare, Kefalonia — Residency focused on dialogue between artists, scientists, and local communities
Tooth & Nail Gallery, Sheppey Island — Invited landscape-based residency
Kindred House, Margate — One-month artist retreat

PUBLICATIONS & INFO

PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

Victorian Gold — Hand-bound, limited-edition collaborative art book
Pressing Matters Magazine, Issue 11
A Tooth for a Tooth — Art film by Tooth and Nail Gallery - Link here

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Research-led practice informed by natural history collections, foraging, and material culture
Experience delivering talks and teaching printmaking workshops
Work held in private collections