Sophie Leach
@sophieleach.bsky.social
NSEAD Deputy General Secretary of the union, learned society and professional association for art and design educators + Editor of AD, the magazine for #ArtEducators NSEAD.org
I ❤️ art, craft & design, and dogs
I ❤️ art, craft & design, and dogs
Fantastic #NSEAD SEAD day - hosted by the awesome #RoyalDrawingSchool Great to see more, hear more about n the power of drawing’, this being the name of their fantastic exhibition celebrating 25 years of the school. Total joy to meet IRL so many members and RDS artists
July 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Fantastic #NSEAD SEAD day - hosted by the awesome #RoyalDrawingSchool Great to see more, hear more about n the power of drawing’, this being the name of their fantastic exhibition celebrating 25 years of the school. Total joy to meet IRL so many members and RDS artists
Grateful to speak and privileged to hear so many esteemed speakers in today's #WestminsterEducationForum: 'Next steps for creative education in England - creative subjects in schools, FE and HEIs, progression'. Speaker include leaders of schools, higher education, cultural and arts organisations.1/3
June 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Grateful to speak and privileged to hear so many esteemed speakers in today's #WestminsterEducationForum: 'Next steps for creative education in England - creative subjects in schools, FE and HEIs, progression'. Speaker include leaders of schools, higher education, cultural and arts organisations.1/3
NOAH DAVIS… go see before it closes #BarbicanCentre
Paintings, life stories, life-collages, community; re-told art stories. Gorgeous, gorgeous paintings.
Noah Davis (1983-2015): ‘I’d rather fail at painting than be successful at anything else.’
Paintings, life stories, life-collages, community; re-told art stories. Gorgeous, gorgeous paintings.
Noah Davis (1983-2015): ‘I’d rather fail at painting than be successful at anything else.’
April 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
NOAH DAVIS… go see before it closes #BarbicanCentre
Paintings, life stories, life-collages, community; re-told art stories. Gorgeous, gorgeous paintings.
Noah Davis (1983-2015): ‘I’d rather fail at painting than be successful at anything else.’
Paintings, life stories, life-collages, community; re-told art stories. Gorgeous, gorgeous paintings.
Noah Davis (1983-2015): ‘I’d rather fail at painting than be successful at anything else.’
The government has only met 44% of its total art and design recruitment target
April 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The government has only met 44% of its total art and design recruitment target
Only 0.7% increase and this is WITH a bursary. This won't fix the recruitment gap
April 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Only 0.7% increase and this is WITH a bursary. This won't fix the recruitment gap
Attending the webinar for #ReportCard2025, that shows: poverty limits access to Arts education. Students in the most deprived areas are far less likely to study Expressive Arts at GCSE + A Level. Where you grow up should not determine your future www.culturallearningalliance.org.uk/evidence/
April 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Attending the webinar for #ReportCard2025, that shows: poverty limits access to Arts education. Students in the most deprived areas are far less likely to study Expressive Arts at GCSE + A Level. Where you grow up should not determine your future www.culturallearningalliance.org.uk/evidence/
In awe of the #SuperPowerOfLooking (SPOL) Teacher Champions #TheCourtauld
SPOL/visual literacy develops
📌Emotional intelligence (reflection and articulation of feelings)
📌Fun and engagement
📌Problem solving and creative thinking
📌Agency and…
📌Resilence e.g. Changing ‘I can’t draw’ to ‘I can draw’
SPOL/visual literacy develops
📌Emotional intelligence (reflection and articulation of feelings)
📌Fun and engagement
📌Problem solving and creative thinking
📌Agency and…
📌Resilence e.g. Changing ‘I can’t draw’ to ‘I can draw’
March 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In awe of the #SuperPowerOfLooking (SPOL) Teacher Champions #TheCourtauld
SPOL/visual literacy develops
📌Emotional intelligence (reflection and articulation of feelings)
📌Fun and engagement
📌Problem solving and creative thinking
📌Agency and…
📌Resilence e.g. Changing ‘I can’t draw’ to ‘I can draw’
SPOL/visual literacy develops
📌Emotional intelligence (reflection and articulation of feelings)
📌Fun and engagement
📌Problem solving and creative thinking
📌Agency and…
📌Resilence e.g. Changing ‘I can’t draw’ to ‘I can draw’
IT’S A WRAP… a day of golden threads, inspiration + ideas, connection + compassion. The ATACL artist educator community is special. Thank you @drabbiecairns.bsky.social for seeing how important it is to connect this vital community, and for working with @nsead.bsky.social to make it happen
March 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
IT’S A WRAP… a day of golden threads, inspiration + ideas, connection + compassion. The ATACL artist educator community is special. Thank you @drabbiecairns.bsky.social for seeing how important it is to connect this vital community, and for working with @nsead.bsky.social to make it happen
NSEAD’s ‘Beyond Boundaries’ adult teaching & community learning conference. Lou Chiu of Atkinson HR - what an incredible keynote - pertinent/knowledgeable/vital - ‘The marriage between theory and practice’ - what does allyship mean, and what does it mean for organisations, groups and individuals
March 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
NSEAD’s ‘Beyond Boundaries’ adult teaching & community learning conference. Lou Chiu of Atkinson HR - what an incredible keynote - pertinent/knowledgeable/vital - ‘The marriage between theory and practice’ - what does allyship mean, and what does it mean for organisations, groups and individuals
The Curriculum Review (CAR) interim report is published. We agree: 'The system is not working well for all.' Key areas needing reform: the impact of the Ebacc, the importance of digital literacy, critical thinking + green skills. Our subject-specific response in full:
www.nsead.org/news/newsroo...
www.nsead.org/news/newsroo...
March 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Curriculum Review (CAR) interim report is published. We agree: 'The system is not working well for all.' Key areas needing reform: the impact of the Ebacc, the importance of digital literacy, critical thinking + green skills. Our subject-specific response in full:
www.nsead.org/news/newsroo...
www.nsead.org/news/newsroo...
@gallery_no.32: Fantastic #WinterSculpturePark ‘25 opening - best sculptures, surprises, experimenters, makers and play.
Thank you #AndyAsh NSEAD President + @alexis.bamforth_eec for sharing your awesome performance + provocations; @wyliework for inspiring conversations.
🎟️ www.galleryno32.co.uk
Thank you #AndyAsh NSEAD President + @alexis.bamforth_eec for sharing your awesome performance + provocations; @wyliework for inspiring conversations.
🎟️ www.galleryno32.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
@gallery_no.32: Fantastic #WinterSculpturePark ‘25 opening - best sculptures, surprises, experimenters, makers and play.
Thank you #AndyAsh NSEAD President + @alexis.bamforth_eec for sharing your awesome performance + provocations; @wyliework for inspiring conversations.
🎟️ www.galleryno32.co.uk
Thank you #AndyAsh NSEAD President + @alexis.bamforth_eec for sharing your awesome performance + provocations; @wyliework for inspiring conversations.
🎟️ www.galleryno32.co.uk
This is the new Roden Centre for Creative Learning @NationalGallery. Can you see the shapes and forms of 12 artworks?
The centre includes a double-height studio for creating and a fantastic sensory learning space 💛
Miracles by @LawsonWardStudio @kareneslea, the fab learning team and many more 🪄
The centre includes a double-height studio for creating and a fantastic sensory learning space 💛
Miracles by @LawsonWardStudio @kareneslea, the fab learning team and many more 🪄
February 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is the new Roden Centre for Creative Learning @NationalGallery. Can you see the shapes and forms of 12 artworks?
The centre includes a double-height studio for creating and a fantastic sensory learning space 💛
Miracles by @LawsonWardStudio @kareneslea, the fab learning team and many more 🪄
The centre includes a double-height studio for creating and a fantastic sensory learning space 💛
Miracles by @LawsonWardStudio @kareneslea, the fab learning team and many more 🪄
Yesterday @ioe.bsky.social #DrAndyAsh became president of #NSEAD.
#CanonMarleneWylie handed over the chain of office - on the chain are names of past presidents - a record of the important work undertaken, 137 years of work. Both said: ‘The chain is heavy in weight + in weight of responsibility’ 1/2
#CanonMarleneWylie handed over the chain of office - on the chain are names of past presidents - a record of the important work undertaken, 137 years of work. Both said: ‘The chain is heavy in weight + in weight of responsibility’ 1/2
January 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Yesterday @ioe.bsky.social #DrAndyAsh became president of #NSEAD.
#CanonMarleneWylie handed over the chain of office - on the chain are names of past presidents - a record of the important work undertaken, 137 years of work. Both said: ‘The chain is heavy in weight + in weight of responsibility’ 1/2
#CanonMarleneWylie handed over the chain of office - on the chain are names of past presidents - a record of the important work undertaken, 137 years of work. Both said: ‘The chain is heavy in weight + in weight of responsibility’ 1/2
So wonderful to be at #Whitechapel Gallery with @NSEAD SEAD [London and SE Art and Design]. We’re learning about and exploring Whitechapel’s participatory projects 🙏 Kirsty Lowry: lovely discussions about the value of creative experimentation, conversions, questions and inter-generational practice
January 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
So wonderful to be at #Whitechapel Gallery with @NSEAD SEAD [London and SE Art and Design]. We’re learning about and exploring Whitechapel’s participatory projects 🙏 Kirsty Lowry: lovely discussions about the value of creative experimentation, conversions, questions and inter-generational practice
NSEAD members – please check your inboxes. We are hiring – freelance illustrator/artist AND a secondary phase lesson creator. Info shared in yesterday's member newsletter along with this year's digital member badges
January 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
NSEAD members – please check your inboxes. We are hiring – freelance illustrator/artist AND a secondary phase lesson creator. Info shared in yesterday's member newsletter along with this year's digital member badges
Full of gratitude tonight for all my colleagues (NSEAD, Charter, Goldsmiths and many more) for ALL ArtEds/#NSEAD members and partner organisations; for the trainees teachers and students I was lucky to teach - and to those I am lucky enough to still know. Happy festive Eve and beyond everyone 🎄✨🥂
December 24, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Full of gratitude tonight for all my colleagues (NSEAD, Charter, Goldsmiths and many more) for ALL ArtEds/#NSEAD members and partner organisations; for the trainees teachers and students I was lucky to teach - and to those I am lucky enough to still know. Happy festive Eve and beyond everyone 🎄✨🥂
Michele Gregson, gen sec and CEO of NSEAD, speaking at the APPG for Art, Craft & Design in Ed: 'you can't be it if you can't see it'. We need investment in our subject-specific workforce AND, investment in data to ensure our amazing workforce draws from and represents our rich and diverse society.
December 17, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Michele Gregson, gen sec and CEO of NSEAD, speaking at the APPG for Art, Craft & Design in Ed: 'you can't be it if you can't see it'. We need investment in our subject-specific workforce AND, investment in data to ensure our amazing workforce draws from and represents our rich and diverse society.
Gratitude in spades to @PollyBillington for taking on the role of chair of the #APPGforArtCraftandDesigninEd. Now as the TU, learned society + professional association for art & design @nseadgensec1 shares NSEAD's 136 yrs of advocacy + why we will always need a cross-party subject voice
December 17, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Gratitude in spades to @PollyBillington for taking on the role of chair of the #APPGforArtCraftandDesigninEd. Now as the TU, learned society + professional association for art & design @nseadgensec1 shares NSEAD's 136 yrs of advocacy + why we will always need a cross-party subject voice
Nairy Baghramian ‘Misfits’ @southlondongallery is joyful.
Spaces in between; inside/outside; touch/don’t touch; great frames and photos of a girl totally at odds with children’s portraits.
Spaces in between; inside/outside; touch/don’t touch; great frames and photos of a girl totally at odds with children’s portraits.
December 8, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Nairy Baghramian ‘Misfits’ @southlondongallery is joyful.
Spaces in between; inside/outside; touch/don’t touch; great frames and photos of a girl totally at odds with children’s portraits.
Spaces in between; inside/outside; touch/don’t touch; great frames and photos of a girl totally at odds with children’s portraits.
’The 80’s: Photographing Britain’ @tate ‘Boys from Tulse Hill School’ (1990) Ingrid Pollard
💬 ‘Ingrid Pollard’s portraits of Tulse Hill pupils highlight the dynamics of ‘seeing’ and ‘being seen’, encouraging you f people to recognise their agency in deciding how they want to see themselves.’ 🙌🙌🙌
💬 ‘Ingrid Pollard’s portraits of Tulse Hill pupils highlight the dynamics of ‘seeing’ and ‘being seen’, encouraging you f people to recognise their agency in deciding how they want to see themselves.’ 🙌🙌🙌
December 2, 2024 at 5:51 PM
’The 80’s: Photographing Britain’ @tate ‘Boys from Tulse Hill School’ (1990) Ingrid Pollard
💬 ‘Ingrid Pollard’s portraits of Tulse Hill pupils highlight the dynamics of ‘seeing’ and ‘being seen’, encouraging you f people to recognise their agency in deciding how they want to see themselves.’ 🙌🙌🙌
💬 ‘Ingrid Pollard’s portraits of Tulse Hill pupils highlight the dynamics of ‘seeing’ and ‘being seen’, encouraging you f people to recognise their agency in deciding how they want to see themselves.’ 🙌🙌🙌
'It's nice to meet the ancestors' is one review of 'Plastic Dreams, art & technology before the internet'. For me, #Tate's exhibition takes us into the past, but each room shows what's possible when Science, Technology, Engineering, ART & Maths intersect. It's an exhibition filled with awesome STEAM
November 27, 2024 at 12:04 PM
'It's nice to meet the ancestors' is one review of 'Plastic Dreams, art & technology before the internet'. For me, #Tate's exhibition takes us into the past, but each room shows what's possible when Science, Technology, Engineering, ART & Maths intersect. It's an exhibition filled with awesome STEAM
Fantastic talk by @soniaboue.bsky.social who shares her work at @johnhansardgallery.bsky.social ‘I like ‘diverse minds’… rather than neuro-divergent…other people are different, I’m a perfectly autistic human’… and an amazing artist, I think!
November 18, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Fantastic talk by @soniaboue.bsky.social who shares her work at @johnhansardgallery.bsky.social ‘I like ‘diverse minds’… rather than neuro-divergent…other people are different, I’m a perfectly autistic human’… and an amazing artist, I think!