Dr Hana Leaper
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: H.M.Leaper@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr Hana Leaper was appointed to the post of John Moores Painting Prize Senior Lecturer and Development Manager in late 2017. She began to undertake research on the John Moores Painting Prize in her previous role as Paul Mellon Centre Fellow and one of the founding Editors of the prestigious born-digital journal British Art Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre, a part of Yale University. At the Centre she played an active role in the research programme, and curated the display ‘The Catalogues of the John Moores Painting Prize’ to commemorate sixty years of the competition.
Dr Leaper’s wider research interests include the Grosvenor School of linocut artists, twentieth century exhibiting histories and artists’ networks, and theories of an artistic middlebrow. She is currently working on an exhibition and catalogue of Grosvenor School linocuts with Dulwich Picture Gallery, and a touring retrospective of Sybil Andrews’ work that will begin at the Glenbow, Calgary in 2019.
Alongside Dr Sophie Hatchwell, she co-founded the Early Career Researchers in British Art Network which, supported by the PMC, staged numerous events for ECRs, including a ‘copyright briefing for researchers’ and seminars on preparing for journal and book publication.
Between 2015-2018 she was a guest lecturer on the Courtauld Institute of Art ‘Making the Modern: art and visual culture in Britain 1890-1970’ MA programme, and the Yale in London ‘Photography and the Artistic Imagination in Victorian and Edwardian Britain’ programmes.
On completion of her PhD ‘Vanessa Bell and the Significance of Form in 2014, Hana worked for the Charleston Foundation researching and cataloguing the Angelica Garnett Gift. During her post graduate studies, Hana lectured in English literature and art history at the University of Liverpool and on the art and design programme at the University of Wolverhampton.
Hana holds a BA in Art History and English Literature, and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Leeds, and a PhD in British and European Modernist art and culture from the University of Liverpool.
Internet publication
Leaper H, Hatchwell S. 2023. Exploring exhibition histories: an audit of the John Moores Painting Prize 1957 catalogue Publisher Url Public Url
Leaper H. 2019. Omega Workshops, Ltd. https://www.modernistarchives.com/business/omega-workshops-ltd Author Url
Leaper H. 2017. Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1961 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bontecou-untitled-t00506 Publisher Url
Leaper H. 2017. Alexander Calder, Black Sun, 1953 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/calder-black-sun-t01090 Publisher Url
Leaper HM. 2016. Alexander Calder, Antennae with Red and Blue Dots, c.1953 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/calder-antennae-with-red-and-blue-dots-t00541 Publisher Url
Leaper H. 2016. Theo van Doesburg, Counter-Composition VI, 1925 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/doesburg-counter-composition-vi-t03374
Leaper H. 2016. Kurt Schwitters, Opened by Customs, 1937–8 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/schwitters-opened-by-customs-t00214
Leaper H. 2016. Jessica Dismorr, Abstract Composition, c.1915 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dismorr-abstract-composition-t01084
Leaper H. 2016. Vanessa Bell, Abstract Painting, c.1914 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bell-abstract-painting-t01935
Leaper H. 2016. Vanessa Bell, Frederick and Jessie Etchells Painting, 1912, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bell-frederick-and-jessie-etchells-painting-t01277
Leaper H. 2015. Leon Kossoff, Self-Portrait, c.1952 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kossoff-self-portrait-t07198
Leaper H. 2015. Maggi Hambling, War Coffin, 1994 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hambling-war-coffin-t07078
Chapters
Leaper H. 2019. Life in Linocuts: The Printmakers of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art Gaber L. Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking Bloomsbury Publishing, Philip Wilson imprint. Great Britain 978-1-78130-078-7
Leaper HM, Mills P. 2018. Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals Bluemel K, McCluskey M. Rural Modernity in Britain A Critical Intervention Edinburgh University Press 9781474420952 Publisher Url
Leaper HM. 2018. Ekphrastic writing; illusive illustration: Vanessa Bell’s embroideries for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Kew Gardens’ Battershill C, Wilson N. Virginia Woolf and the World of Books 9781942954569
Leaper HM. 2018. The ‘materials of modern composition’ in contemporary spiritual art shown at the RA in 1922 Card B, Turner SV, Hallett M, Feather J. The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769-2018
Leaper HM. 2018. "Immortal Apples and Eternal Eggs": Life and Still Life in the Bedsits of Bloomsbury Briganti C, Mezei K. Living with Strangers Bedsits and Boarding Houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film :43-62 Bloomsbury Publishing 9781350016521 DOI Publisher Url
Leaper HM. 2018. From Inheritance to Legacy: Virginia Woolf's Place Within Networks of Women Creatives Smith L, Tassi E, Bennett E. Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings Tate 9781849765985
Leaper HM. 2018. Talk of the Table: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's Famous Women Dinner Service Ketteringham S, Travers M. From Omega to Charleston The Art of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant 1910- 1934 9781901192513
Leaper H. 2017. From London to Paris Milroy S, Dejardin I. Vanessa Bell Philip Wilson 9781781300510
Leaper H. 2017. ’"Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!": Vanessa Bell’s Death of the Moth Dust Jacket as Monument to Virginia Woolf’ Reus A, Breckin T, deGay J.
Journal article
Hatchwell S, Insh F, Leaper H. 2019. Born Digital: Early Career Researchers Shaping Digital Art History Visual Resources, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Leaper H. 2017. The Famous Women Dinner Service: A Critical Introduction British Art Studies, 7 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Leaper H. 2017. Controversial Moderns Art and Christianity Journal, 91 Publisher Url Public Url
Leaper H. 2016. ‘Old-fashioned modern’: Claude Flight's Lino-Cuts and Public Taste in the Interwar Period Modernist Cultures, 11 :389-408 DOI Publisher Url
Leaper H. 2015. A Bloomsbury Miscellany from the Charleston Attic
Editorial Group BAS. Editorial British Art Studies, DOI Publisher Url
Other
Leaper H. 2018. Introduction to Midldlebrow Tate Etc issue 42,
Hammer M. 2017. British Art Studies Leaper HM, Turner SV, Droth M, Card B. DOI Publisher Url
Leaper H. 2017. Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse Early Modern Women, 11 :192-198 DOI Publisher Url
BAS editorial group , Leaper H, Turner SV, Droth M. 2016. British Art Studies Editorial Issue 4 Leaper H, Turner SV, Droth M. British Art Studies, DOI Author Url Publisher Url
BAS Editorial team , Leaper H, Turner SV, Droth M. 2016. British Art Studies BAS Editorial Team , Leaper H, Turner SV, Droth M. British Art Studies, DOI Publisher Url
BAS Editorial Team , Leaper H. 2016. British Art Studies Leaper H. British Art Studies, DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Leaper H, Turner SV, Droth M, BAS Editorial Group . 2015. British Art Studies Leaper H, Turner SV, Droth M, BAS Editorial Group . British Art Studies, DOI Publisher Url
Leaper H. 2010. Crafting Modernist Aesthetics review of 'Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19' exhibition at Courtauld Institute of Art, 18th June to 20th September 2009 The Journal of Modern Craft, 3 :111-114 DOI Publisher Url
Books (authored)
Leaper HM, Jones V, Knight D, Purkiss A, Raback JSK, Tobin C, Wilkins D, Stutchbury A, Wilson S . 2017. The Famous Women Dinner Service: A Critical Catalogue Leaper HM. Paul Mellon Centre Publisher Url
Leaper HM, Jones V, Knight D, Purkiss A, Raback JSK, Tobin C, Wilkins D, Stutchbury A, Wilson S . 2017. The Famous Women Dinner Service: A Critical Catalogue Leaper HM. Paul Mellon Centre Publisher Url
Leaper H, Samuel G. 2015. Sybil Andrews Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue Lund Humphries Publishers, Limited 9781848221802 Publisher Url
Samuel G, Gallery OS, Andrews S. 2015. Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts Osborne Samuel LLP 9780993078644 Publisher Url
Film
Chicago J, League TWSA, Leaper H, Law J. The Famous Women Dinner Service: In Conversation with Contemporary Art Publisher Url
Exhibition
Milroy S, Dejardin I, with research consultation and development support from Leaper H. Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Leaper HM. The Catalogues of the John Moores Painting Prize
Smith L, with research consultation and development support from Leaper H. Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings
Leaper HM, Spalding F, Shone R, Piano Nobile , Clarke D. From Omega to Charleston
Leaper H. The John Moores Painting Prize and the Rise of the Sixties in Liverpool
Leaper H, Binns A. The Famous Women Project Tate Exchange Author Url
Schofield J, Duffy T, Wilcox M, Embery E, Krysa J, Leaper H, Roberts E, Wilkinson C, Wilkinson D, Liu C, Roughley M, Pollier P. Fanchon Fröhlich: The Wrong Sex (2023) at Exhibition Research Lab, 17/02/2023-14/05/2023 Publisher Url
Leaper H, Hatchwell S, Johnston P, Lamont G. Works from the 1957 John Moores Painting Prize Publisher Url Public Url
Leaper H, Schofield J, Roberts A. John Moores Painting Prize China Residency Exhibition: Work by the 2020 & 2022 winning artists Publisher Url
Leaper H, Roberts A. Fanchon Fröhlich: The Liverpudlian Polymath Publisher Url Public Url
Conference publication
Leaper H. The Legacy of Vanessa Bell and the Heart of Brand Bloomsbury Wright EH. Bloomsbury Influences: Papers from the Bloomsbury Adaptations Conference, Bath Spa University, 5-6 May 2011, Bloomsbury Adaptations Conference
Conference organisation:
Exploring exhibition-making as a research practice, Organiser and chair, https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/uncategorised/event-exhibition-making-as-research/. 2024
Curators and Researchers engaging with Co-Production at LJMU, FACT and Walker Art Gallery, Organiser and Chair. 2024
Memory Loss on Screen: lecture and narrative screening with Dr Jonathan Law, Organiser, https://www.exhibition-research-lab.co.uk/events/memory-loss-on-screen/. 2024
Research-based programming in university galleries symposium and networking event, Organiser, https://www.exhibition-research-lab.co.uk/events/research-based-programming-in-university-galleries/. 2024
Co-production in regional art galleries, Organiser of LJMU-based activities in collaboration with Dr Sophie Hatchwell, organiser of programme at Derby Museum, https://www.exhibition-research-lab.co.uk/events/co-production-in-regional-art-galleries/. 2024
John Moores Painting Prize and Uses of Big Data in Exhibition Studies, Organiser and Key Note speaker. 2023
John Moores Painting Prize China and UK winning artists networking conference and workshop, Organiser. Speakers: Daniel Sturgis (University of the Arts, London), Robbie Bushe (University of Edinburgh). 2023
New Directions in Research in Post-War British Art in Regional Collections, Co-convener. 2023
Collective taskforce workshop: Auditing diversity among John Moores Painting Prize winners, Organiser. 2021
Absence: Absent from history/absent from the gallery, Co-convener, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sINVDJKpXvg&t=2s;%20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguzuACjVHE. 2020
Regionalism, Value and Diversifying Post War British Art, Co-convener, https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1QOtQbiox27AExTR8GRLJdZMAvcG2OeF6. 2020
Debating the status of post-war painting, Co-convener, https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1S654wmoafv5bxGQM9drptfrZVACs50cM. 2019
Symposium and Screening, Famous Women: In Conversation with Contemporary Art, Co-convener with Amy Binns. 2019
The John Moores Painting Prize and the Rise of the Sixties in Liverpool, A Performative Evening Happening, Supporting Adi Lerer, http://adilerer.com/event-response/4594590031. 2019
Talk and tour: John Moores Painting Prize China winners 2018, organiser and presenter, https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/talk-and-tour-john-moores-painting-prize-china-winners-2018/. 2018
Building relationships with contemporary Chinese artists in the UK symposium, organiser. 2018
Digital Art History, Practice and Potential, Co-convener with Fern Insh and Sophie Hatchwell, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-art-history-practice-and-potential-tickets-36952699519#. 2017
Art History & the Middlebrow workshop, Convener. 2017
Making Women’s Art Matter: New Approaches to the Careers and Legacies of Women Artists, Co-convener with Nadia Hebson, http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/making-womens-art-matter-224. 2017
Fellowships:
Organiser of John Moores Painting Prize China residency programme for the 2020 and 2022 artists, LJMU, John Moores Painting Prize China, John Moores Painting Prize Trust, Walker Art Gallery, Shanghai University, https://www.cultureliverpool.co.uk/events/john-moores-painting-prize-china-residency-exhibition-work-by-the-2020-and-2022-winning-artists/. 2023
Curatorial Research Fellowship, Glenbow, Calgary. 2018
Research Grants Awarded:
Arts Council England, The Wrong Sex Symposium, James Schofield, Geneva Lavern, Grant value (£): 10,000. 2023
External PGR examinations performed:
Birmingham, PhD, WOMEN ARTISTS AND THE BRITISH POSTER MOVEMENT (1900 – 1939). 2023
Other invited event:
IFPDA Fair (International Fine Print Dealers Association), Print Month 2021, New York, The Art of To-day: Grosvenor School Linocuts and their Legacy --- A Symposium on the Occasion of “Modern Times: British Prints 1913-1939” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2021
Doctoral Researchers Network Summer Symposium 2019, Paul Mellon Centre, Respondent for 'Gendered Mediums' panel. 2019
External collaboration:
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/tate-exchange/workshop/famous-women-project, The Famous Women Project with Tate Liverpool and University of Central Lancaster, Dr Amy Binns. 2019
Conference presentation:
Nina Hamnett: Refusing the mantle of muse, MUSES, ANTI-MUSES, COUNTER MUSES https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/fernand-leger-new-times-new-pleasures/muses-anti-muses-counter, Tate Liverpool, Oral presentation. 2019
The Famous Women Dinner Service, Walthamstow Hall School Sixth Form lecture series, Walthamstow Hall School, Oral presentation. 2019
A Famous Women “Dinner Party”: Film Screening, Talk, Discussion and Reception, A Famous Women “Dinner Party”: Film Screening, Talk, Discussion and Reception, Paul Mellon Centre, Oral presentation. 2018
The Famous Women Dinner Service: In Conversation with Contemporary Art, Making, Place & Protest, Queen Mary, film. 2018
Public talk on John Moores Painting Prize China winners, Walker Art Gallery public programme, Walker Art Gallery, Oral presentation. 2018
Movement at its core: Sybil Andrews and Bury St Edmunds, public programme lecture, Moyse's Hall Museum Bury St Ed, Oral presentation. 2018
From Omega to Charleston, guest lecture to Franklin University Switzerland, Oral presentation. 2018
The Talk of the Table, Public Programmes lecture, Piano Nobile gallery London, Oral presentation. 2018
"The experience of the mass is behind the single voice": Virginia Woolf's sense of her self in relation to wider networks of creativity, Virginia Woolf, Art and Ideas, Tate St Ives, Oral presentation. 2018
The Berwick Church Murals, Adjusting our gaze to the "local and particular", Oxford Environment seminar on modern landscape, Oxford University, Oral presentation. 2018
Mary Martin and the John Moores Painting Prize, Making Women’s Art Visible at Tate, Tate stores and Tate Britain, Oral presentation. 2018
Roundtable discussion, Feast: Room for Food, University of Manchester, roundtable discussion. 2018
Art History and Fair Dealing, Fair Dealing: Theory and Practice, The Derek Jarman Lab, Birkbeck University, panel discussion. 2017
Famous Women: "the familiar, the friendly even the facetious", Decorating Dissidence: Feminism, Modernism and the Arts, Queen Mary University of London and The Arts Pavilion Mile End, Oral presentation. 2017
Vanessa Bell and Making Women's Art Matter, public programmes lecture, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Oral presentation. 2017
Bloomsbury Group Breakfast, Bedford Square Festival, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Oral presentation. 2017
Ekphrastic writing; allusive illustration: Vanessa Bell's illustrations for Virginia Woolf's "Kew Gardens", The 27th Annual International conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and the World of Books, University of Reading, Oral presentation. 2017
Carving Limins: From the Victorian Past to the Modernist Future, Decoding the domestic interior in British portraits, National Portrait Gallery and Geffrye Museum, Oral presentation. 2017
"a corner of a foreign land this is for ever England"': Sybil Andrews and strategies of resistance to losing home, Britain, Canada, and the Arts, Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal, University of London, Oral presentation. 2017
Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals, Sussex Modernists and Transformations in the Twentieth-Century Landscape, University of Sussex, Oral presentation. 2017
Fair Use et Open Content: les réponses américaines aux nouvelles pratiques de l'image, Festival de l'histoire de l'art, Fontainebleau, Oral presentation. 2017
'"A Room of One's Own", the Bedsits of Bloomsbury, Public programmes lecture, Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead, Oral presentation. 2017
Controversial Moderns: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant at St Michael and All Saints, Sacred Tradition and the Arts Seminar Series, University College London and The Courtauld Institute of Art, Oral presentation. 2017
‘Take my lens…. See that it is always slightly out of focus.’: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf’s crafting of maternal histories through the gift of Julia Margaret Cameron’s lens, College Art Association, Washington, Oral presentation. 2016
Monument, Memory and Mapping the Maternal: The ‘Great Unwritten Story’ in the Work of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, Julia Margaret Cameron Conference, Oral presentation. 2015
External committees:
Post-war Painting in Regional Collections Research Network, British Art Network, Co-founder and co-convener, https://postwarbritishpainting.wordpress.com/. 2019
Jury Service, Gov.uk, Juror. 2018
Charleston House and Exhibitions Committee, Charleston, Committee member. 2017
Early Career Researchers in British Art Network, Paul Mellon Centre, Co-founder and Co-convener, https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/research/about-ecr-485. 2016
Editorial boards:
British Art Studies, Deputy Editor, http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/. 2014