Chloe Leaper

Lecturer

Chloe Leaper is an artist, public art engagement strategist, and lecturer at Cambridge School of Art. Working across sculpture, installation and drawing. Her practice explores spatial cognition, And mental, visual and physical movement across perceived thresholds. Leaper is currently undertaking a PhD with Nottingham Trent University exploring how site-responsive art practice can engage with the architecture of Health and Wellbeing to holistically enhance psycho-spatial experiences of threshold transition.

Faculty:
Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
School:
School of Education
Location:
Cambridge
Areas of Expertise:
Fine art , Arts and health research , Arts and creative industries , Modern and Contemporary Art
Background

Chloe is currently a lecturer on the Fine Art BA at ARU having previously been Head of Foundation and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at The Art Academy (London), and Senior Lecturer in spatial design at Inchbald School of Design (London).

Her practice is currently involved in public art projects as a commissioned artists as well as a consultant strategist and public engagement facilitator.

Chloe is recently enrolled on a Practice based PhD in Fine Art with at Nottingham Trent University, having previously received her Fine Art MA (with Distinction) from City and Guilds of London Art School, a BA Degree in Fine Art and Critical Thinking from Kingston University, and a three year Post-graduate degree in Sculpture at The Art Academy.

Research interests

Chloe is currently undertaking a PhD with Nottingham Trent University exploring how site-responsive artworks can engage with the architecture of Health and Wellbeing to holistically enhance psycho-spatial experiences of threshold transition.

Through the lens of wellbeing, she is examining methods of interdisciplinary engagement between Art, Psychology, Architecture, and Critical theory. Her research will focus on the liminal psycho-spatial thresholds situated between the functional conventions of architecture and the terrain of expanded drawing and installation.

Teaching
  • Spatial Practices
  • Fine Art Practice 1
  • Fine Art Practice 2
  • Fine Art Major Project
  • Experimental Practice
Qualifications
  • 2012 – MA (with Distinction) Fine Art - City and Guilds of London Art School, London.
  • 2007 – Post-Graduate Diploma in Sculpture - The Art Academy, London.
  • 2003 – PGCE Part One - Kingston College, Surrey.
  • 1999-2002 – BA (Hons) Fine Art and Critical Thinking - Kingston University, Surrey.
Selected recent publications

2020 – Phase IV: Intersections – Art/Architecture – Featured artist - Stephen Lawrence Gallery (University of Greenwich).

2014 – The State of Art -Installation & Site-Specific #2 - Featured artist - Barehill publications.

2013 – The Catlin Guide - Featured artist - Art Catlin.

2012 – Modelling and Sculpting the Figure - Featured author/artist - A&C Black Bloomsbury Academic.

2003 – The Beginner’s Guide to Sculpture - Author - Silverdale Books - Bookmart Ltd. UK.