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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
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Lee Tran Lam, The incredible paper art of Emma van Leest, Inside Out Blog, 2009
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Simon Gregg, December Saints, Artlink, Volume 25 No 3 2005
Freya Lombardo, Hot Young Designers 2005, Monument, Issue 68 2005