Borders & Boundaries: Artist Talk Series II

Leo Fitzmaurice

6 – 7:30pm

Main Hall, Hereford College of Arts, College Road Campus, Hereford HR1 1EB

Rather than adhering to a specific medium or form, Leo Fitzmaurice‘s practice is deeply rooted in a process of roaming and observation. His focus invariably centres on the everyday—the subtleties so common they are often overlooked. He confronts themes of consumerism, the repercussions of mass production, and the physical structures onto which information is placed, presented, or contained. Previous bodies of Fitzmaurice’s work have explored a diverse range of materials, including discarded Coca-Cola cans, plastic shopping bags, abandoned cigarette packets, and promotional flyers—each imbued with a sense of disposability that contradicts their enduring impact on the environment. 

Recent solo exhibitions include Misconstructary, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2024; Enjoy Civic Life, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK, 2021; Between You and Me and Everything Else, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2018; As Yet, Caustic Coastal, Manchester, UK, 2017; OH V HO, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2016; Frieze London Sculpture Park, 2015; The Sunday Painter, London 2014; Blank Stir, The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK, 2012; You Try to Tell Me But I never Listen, New Art Gallery Walsall, 2011; Sometimes the Things You Touch Come True, Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2007.

Maya Rose Edwards

6 – 7:30pm

Main Hall, Hereford College of Arts, College Road Campus, Hereford HR1 1EB

Maya Rose Edwards (they/them) is a participatory public sculptor.  

In 2023, completing the Mount Stuart Artists Residency; their project TWOFOLD, explored the connection between queer/rural identities on the Isle of Bute, resulting in a series of permanent works. They are the recipient of the RSA New Contemporaries Selection 2023 for which they received the Chalmers Award, Creative Scotland Youth Arts Bursary 2022, Steven Palmer Travel Bursary 2023, and were a member of the 2023/24 cohort of The School of the Damned. 

Their practice spans participatory public sculpture, intervention, text, and a range of visual output with a specific focus on accessible arts and everyday culture. 

Maya has shown work at over 20 locations across the UK.

Meadow Arts have commissioned Maya for their BorderLands project. Working with communities in the border towns of Hay, Kington and Presteigne, Maya will create a sculptural work, film, soundscape and maps which will be shown in the BorderLands exhibition at Hay Castle in May 2026.

Delaine Le Bas

6 – 7:30pm

Main Hall, Hereford College of Arts, College Road Campus, Hereford HR1 1EB

Delaine Le Bas (born 1965) is a British artist from a Romani background. One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art, Le Bas is renowned for her work addressing nationhood, belonging, gender, and identity, using a diverse range of media including embroidery, découpage, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance Le Bas was shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024.
Le Bas has exhibited her works extensively both in the UK and abroad.

Recent solo exhibitions include +Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles, Newcastle Contemporary Art (2025), Stranger in Silver Walking in Air, The White House, Dagenham (2025), Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding at Tramway, Glasgow (2024). Le Bas curated House of Le Bas (2023), an exhibition overviewing the history of practice of herself and her late artist husband Damian Le Bas for Whitechapel Gallery in London.

Leah Gordon

6 – 7:30pm

Main Hall, Hereford College of Arts, College Road Campus, Hereford HR1 1EB

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.

Larry Achiampong

6 – 7:30pm

Hereford College of Arts Folly Lane campus, Hereford HR1 1LT

Larry Achiampong‘s projects employ film; still imagery; aural and visual archives; live performance; objects; sound and game design to explore ideas surrounding class, gender, cross-cultural and digital identity.

With works that examine his communal and personal heritage – in particular, the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonisation, Achiampong crate-digs the vaults of history. These investigations examine constructions of ‘the self’ through the activity of splicing the audible and visual materials of personal and interpersonal archives, offering multiple perspectives that reveal the deeply entrenched inequalities in contemporary society.

In 2022 Achiampong released his first feature and most ambitious film to date – Wayfinder, which was longlisted for a BAFTA award in 2023 in the category ‘Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer’. Achiampong has presented projects across the UK and globally, including commissions with Art on the Underground, London (2022); The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2021) and The Line, London (2020). 

Recent solo exhibitions include Wayfinder, Turner Contemporary/MK Gallery/BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, (2022-2023); Relic Traveller: Where You and I Come From, We Know That We Are Not Here Forever, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal (2021); Beyond the Substrata, Copperfield Gallery at Frieze Focus; When the Sky Falls, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2020); Pan African Flag For The Relic Travellers Alliance & Relic Traveller, Phase 1, 019, Ghent (2019).

Please note: this talk will take place at the Folly Lane campus due to the June Degree Show at College Road, all welcome.