Emma Van Leest
Click here to view ABC Art Nation episode featuring Emma Van Leest
1978 Born in Melbourne
EDUCATION
2000 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) (Honours), RMIT University, Melbourne
1999 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) RMIT University, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Recent Works, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Perpetua, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Before the first rain, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Wayfaring, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 A homage to a private place, First Draft Inc, Sydney
2006 A barn for a goddess and other tales, West Space, Melbourne
2005 The things you do for love, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2005 December Saints, Seventh Gallery Inc, Melbourne
2004 Recent works, Little Salon, Fitzroy
2004 Recent works, Body, St Kilda East
2003 Recent works, Body, St Kilda East
2003 144 grids (a piece of ivory), Red Gallery, North Fitzroy
2003 Untitled installation, Experimental Art Space, Melbourne University Student Union, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Recent works, John Buckley Gallery, Richmond
2011 Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Gallery, Gymea
2011 A4 Paper Festival, The Paper Mill Gallery, Sydney
2011 Fail harder, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Victoria
2010 Consumed, 124 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East, Victoria
2010 Form, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2009 Small works Christmas show, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2009 The Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast
2009 Studio show, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
2009 Melbourne Winter show, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2008 New Victorians, University of Sydney Art Gallery, Sydney
2008 Paper-cut, 24HRArt Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
2008 The Summer Exhibition, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2007 To Be Confirmed ..., Art, Design and Craft Biennial 2007, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2007 Rumble 2, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
2006 Christmas Collectors Exhibition, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Prize, ABN AMRO, Melbourne
2006 Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Lexicon (curator: Martina Copley), Exhibition Space at Melbourne City Library, Melbourne
2006 Selekta 2006, West Space, Melbourne
2006 Snapshot: Inaugural Exhibition, John Buckley Fine Art, Richmond
2006 Postscript (curator: Simon Gregg), RMIT Project Space, Carlton
2005 It's all about us (curator: Geneine Honey), Arts Victoria, Southbank
2004 Exploration 5 (curator: Claire Harris), Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Explorations in paper (collaboration with Claire Best), Level 11 Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Leisureland (curator: Jenni Port), Red Gallery, North Fitzroy
COLLECTIONS
Ballarat Gallery of Art
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Private collections in Australia, United States, Indonesia and New Zealand
GRANTS & COMMISSIONS
2010 Mater Hospital, Brisbane
2008 Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India
2007 Wintergarden installation, Federation Square, Melbourne
2007 Skills and Arts Development, Australia Council
2007 Australia Cultural Fund
2005 New work, Australia Council
2003 Melbourne University Student Union
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Interview – Emma van Leest, The Design Files Blog, 1 April 2011
Laura Heyenga & Rob Ryan, Paper cutting: contemporary artists, timeless craft, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2010
Art Nation – Emma van Leest, ABC1 TV, 7 November 2010
Jean-Charles Trebbi, L’art de la découpe, Editions Alternatives, Paris, 2010
Suzanna Clarke, A cut above the ordinary, The Courier Mail, 28 August 2010
Victionary Workshop, Illustration: Play, Hong Kong 2010
Chin Thing, Designers to watch, Space 2010 #2, Malaysia
Page One Publishing, Perfect Paper, Singapore, 2009
Lee Tran Lam, Staff wishlist, Inside Out magazine, Christmas issue Vol 3 No 1, 2009
Miguel Canseco, Arquitectura de lo ligero, Siglo Nuevo (Mexico), 2009
Lee Tran Lam, The incredible paper art of Emma van Leest, Inside Out Blog, 2009
Alex Warren, Collector’s Edition, Inside Out magazine, September-October 2009
Ramona Barry and Rebecca Jobson, I make stuff, Melbourne, 2009
Jemima Kemp, Celebrations of the grotesque; the new sublime in Australian contemporary practice, Eyeline No 68, 2009
Page One Publishing, Perfect Paper, Singapore, 2009
I T Post, China, October 2008
Louise Tegart, New Victorians Catalogue Essay, The University of Sydney, 2008
Vogue Living Australia, Bright young things, November 2007
Gordon Craig, Catalogue essay, Art Design and Craft Biennial 2007
Simon Gregg, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 63, Winter, 2007
Robert Nelson, Art that generates its own scintillating electricity, The Age, 28 February 2007
Megan Backhouse, In galleries, it’s show time, The Age, Saturday 20 January 2007
Simon Gregg, Melburnin, In Trouble, December 2006/January 2007
Pamela Mei-Leng See, Cutting in: Comparing Sino-Australian paper-cutting practice, Craft Australia website, July 2006
Christine Morrow, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, catalogue essay, August, 2006
Pamela Mei-Leng See, Cutting in: Comparing Sino-Australian paper-cutting practice, Craft Australia website, July 2006
Simon Gregg, December Saints, Artlink, Volume 25 No 3 2005
Freya Lombardo, Hot Young Designers 2005, Monument, Issue 68 2005
