Commissions

Hematopolitics with Dr Jieun Kim (2024-2025)

Working with researcher Dr Jieun Kim at University of Leeds. We produced textile blood bag making workshops in Seoul, South Korea and Kyoto, Japan (2024). These are now on exhibition (8th Feb-29th June 2025) as part of Thackray Museum of Medicine’s Blood: Ties and Tension exhibition. You can read the stories about each bag on the Thackray blog or Hematopolitics website.
An illustrated children’s book about blood donation is also in production, with Dr Kim as the author, and Leigh as the illustrator.

Leeds Access Cloaks – Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds City Museum, Armley Mills Museum, The Carriageworks Theatre (2023)

Alfie & his team of support artists worked alongside a number of Leeds SILC Schools and a Pyramid Discover group to make hundreds of monoprinted circles that will be sewn together to make up four larger than life Access Cloaks. The project is about disabled people having access to art & artistic spaces. I worked as part of the team that stitched together hundreds (if not thousands) of circles to create the impressive, large scale artworks. The finished Access Cloaks will be hung from four important cultural venues in Leeds from October 2023. Alfie hopes that his cloaks will encourage the people of Leeds to think about access and inclusion. This ground breaking project is funded by Arts Council England.

Thackray Museum of Medicine x The Vagina Museum (2021)

Freehand machine embroidery of Jo Malone London products for their New Year, Valentines Day and Lunar New Year (Year of the Rooster) campaign^*. Used globally across Jo Malone stores and published advertising. Seen in window displays for Jo Malone London stores such as New York, London, Paris, Seoul, Singapore, St. Petersburg, Hong Kong, Okinawa and many more.

_{*I created all of the product bottles, boxes and jars, including stitching their labels as separate pieces. Surrounding embroideries are not mine.}

Stormzy x Greggs (2020)

Free machine and hand embroidery of the Greggs Logo onto a pair of slippers for Stormzy, as part of Gregg’s exclusive VIP ‘Black Card’ gift.