Lesley is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is fascinated by the mystery of ‘what has gone before’ and driven to uncover and map the hidden histories and narratives of the sites she encounters. This has led her to develop a creative practice in exploring fragments of context, people, place, and process. Within this, her creative practice uses a range of techniques and processes such as drawing, photography, printmaking, model-making, and writing. In addition to academia, she has worked in architectural practice in Northern Ireland, New York, and Scotland.

Recently, whilst focusing across sites in Iceland, Ireland, and Scotland, she has been developing, testing, and exploring mixed-media techniques alongside Architectural drawing and analysis of place. She is currently developing a portfolio of work that explores difficult heritage of landscape and architectural ruin, specifically the challenge of creating artefacts of landscape when there is little physical trace left behind.

Lesley’s work has been exhibited in venues such as the Nieuwe Instituut Museumpark, Amsterdam, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Shanghai Biennale and the Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition.
Within the beautiful setting of Cove Park, Lesley will spend time developing her printmaking practice via a new series of dry-point etchings, tetra Pak printmaking and collagraphs. She plans on taking mini adventures around this part of Scotland with her camera and sketchbook and will take time to reflect on her developing research portfolios.