WELCOME!
I’M POPPY-LEE.
I’m an artist, illustrator and writer based in Leeds, UK.
I work in oils, watercolours, and digital design. I create a lot of nature illustrations, especially watercolour mushrooms, and like to explore different foraged materials and wildlife for my pieces. When I’m not dabbling in watercolour, I’m working on a series of oil portraits and my new set of Breakfast Butty paintings.
I’m also the Organiser of Leeds Poetry Festival, working year-round on a programme of events before the annual festival each summer.
exhibitions & shows
International Women’s Day exhibition, Left Bank Leeds, 2023
ART SHOW, Corn Exchange, 2022
curation
Black History Month 2023 with Left Bank Leeds, co-curated with Simone Yasmin
Out of Time, Leeds Poetry Festival 2023 Anthology, co-curated with judges, Nasser Hussain, Matthew Hedley Stoppard and Jannat Ahmed
Taking Up Space, Leeds Poetry Festival 2022 Anthology, co-curated with judges, Izzy Brittain, Simone Yasmin and Tom Sims
At Home in our City, Leeds Poetry Festival 2021 Anthology, co-curated with judges, Jack Collins and Abdullah Adekola
poetry & prose
‘In the Hands of Atropos’, nawr magazine
‘Mên-an-Tol’, Riggwelter Press
‘Frances Griffiths and the Cottingley Fairies’, Lucent Dreaming Magazine
‘necessary skills for young women’, Lucent Dreaming Magazine
‘I’m convinced that fairies live here’, Lucent Dreaming Magazine
‘Devil’s Fingers’, Taking Up Space: Leeds Poetry Festival 2022 anthology
‘Souvenirs in the City’, At Home In Our City: Leeds Poetry Festival 2021 anthology
Previous events & performances include:
‘International Women’s Day Extravaganza’, Loudspeaker Live, Left Bank Leeds
‘Verse After Dark’, Leeds Poetry Festival x Leeds Lit Fest 2023, HPBC
‘Anatomy of a City’, Leeds Poetry Festival x Writing on Air Festival 2022, Chapel FM
‘Poetry on the Aire’ podcast, listen to past episodes
‘Tub Thumping’, Nymphs & Thugs, The Constitutional
‘Future Histories’, Loudspeaker Live, Open Source Arts
‘Lighting the Way Home’, Intercultured Festival, Common Space
‘Enjoying Nature: Goodparley & Poppy Jennings’, Listening by Learning, Strategic Tape Reserve
‘Pride and Poetry’, Loudspeaker Radio, Chapel FM
‘Talking Ink’ podcast, listen to the episode here
‘Digithon Festival’, Wales Arts Review, watch the set here
‘St David’s Day’, Your Wales, Wales Millennium Centre
‘International Women’s Day’, Wales Millennium Centre
‘Lucent Dreaming Panel’, Cardiff Poetry Festival 2020, Temple of Peace
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