Leigh Curtis is deputy editor of Exeter Observer and a director of its publisher Exeter Observer Limited.
She writes many of our community and culture stories and also contributes to news, features and investigations.
Leigh holds a degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and leads on design and marketing as well as Exeter Observer’s financial and administrative management.
She is also an accredited UK press card holder and a member of the National Union of Journalists.
Stories by Leigh Curtis
University plans to demolish 30 buildings to construct 50,000m2 of new student accommodation
Permission sought for 1,250 new bedrooms on fifteen acre Streatham campus Clydesdale and Birks development site, half as large again as 1,200 bedroom East Park development.
Renewed permission sought for Longbrook Street student block
Developers are seeking to renew previously-granted planning permission for an eight storey 108-bed student accommodation block on the site of the King Billy public house.
Thousands march in Exeter for global climate strike as millions mobilise worldwide
Fridays for Future Exeter led 3,500 people on a climate crisis demonstration through the city backed by dozens of organisations on the eve of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.
Preston Street Union rolls out the red carpet
The Exeter-based artists explore migration driven by the city’s historic wool trade in new work commissioned by RAMM.
SATURDAY 30 MARCH-SUNDAY 2 JUNE 2019
Extreme Imagination - Inside the Mind’s Eye
University of Exeter research fellow Dr Matthew MacKisack guides us through a RAMM exhibition that explores works by artists, writers and makers with widely varying visual imaginations.
RAMM
Out of sight, out of mind
An Exeter performance of From The Light of The Fire, Our Dancing Shadows for Kaleider Mikrofest appears to favour illusion over truth in a confused rendering of Plato’s cave allegory that leaves both performers and audience in the dark.
