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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
2013
Amoris Labour, Olsen Irwin
2010
Recent Works, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
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
A barn for a goddess and other tales, West Space, Melbourne
2005
The things you do for love, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
December Saints, Seventh Gallery Inc, Melbourne
2004
Recent works, Little Salon, Fitzroy
Recent works, Body, St Kilda East
2003
Recent works, Body, St Kilda East
144 grids (a piece of ivory), Red Gallery, North Fitzroy
Untitled installation, Experimental Art Space, Melbourne University Student Union, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Recent works, John Buckley Gallery, Richmond
Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Gallery, Gymea
A4 Paper Festival, The Paper Mill Gallery, Sydney
Fail harder, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Victoria
2010
Consumed, 124 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East, Victoria
Form, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2009
Consumed, 124 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East, Victoria
Form, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Small works Christmas show, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
The Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast
Studio show, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
Melbourne Winter show, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2008
New Victorians, University of Sydney Art Gallery, Sydney
Paper-cut, 24HRArt Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
2007
To Be Confirmed ..., Art, Design and Craft Biennial 2007, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Rumble 2, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
2006
Christmas Collectors Exhibition, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Prize, ABN AMRO, Melbourne
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
Lexicon (curator: Martina Copley), Exhibition Space at Melbourne City Library, Melbourne
Selekta 2006, West Space, Melbourne
Snapshot: Inaugural Exhibition, John Buckley Fine Art, Richmond
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
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
Skills and Arts Development, Australia Council
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
