tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60373191009361013222008-06-04T12:46:45.816+10:00emmanoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037319100936101322.post-65397501008616814002007-12-20T19:54:00.000+11:002007-12-20T20:05:39.750+11:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST-DSC0176-780152.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST-DSC0176-779499.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Kayon - Interior 2007<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">49 x 34 cm<br />Synthetic paper, paper, glue, foam core<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST-DSC0178-761843.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST-DSC0178-761289.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Kayon - Exterior 2007<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Synthetic paper, paper, glue, foam core, mirrored acrylic<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">49 x 34 cm<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST-DSC0181-711405.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST-DSC0181-710708.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Untitled 2007<br />Synthetic paper, paper, glue, foam core, mirrored acrylic<br />20 x 18 cm<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST-DSC0183-728090.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST-DSC0183-727436.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Untitled 2007<br />Synthetic paper, paper, glue, foam core, acrylic<br />23 x 29 cm</div>emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037319100936101322.post-73110458413917985522007-12-20T19:48:00.000+11:002007-12-20T19:52:40.098+11:00Emma van Leest has recently been allocated grants by the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council and the Australia Cultural Fund to attend a 3-month residency in New Delhi, India.<br /><br />Emma will be commencing her residency at the Sanskriti Kendra, south of Delhi, on 4 February 2008. She also hopes to travel to Sikkim in the north-east.<br /><br />Watch this space for more updates as Emma commences her travels!emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037319100936101322.post-77686878228495903052007-10-31T18:40:00.001+11:002007-10-31T18:45:49.092+11:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VogueLivingEmma-716991.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VogueLivingEmma-716491.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037319100936101322.post-19677300401809132402007-10-31T18:13:00.000+11:002007-10-31T18:39:27.284+11:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/ArtAlmanac-715150.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/ArtAlmanac-714874.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037319100936101322.post-28362388982672506272007-08-14T16:33:00.000+10:002007-08-15T14:05:53.716+10:00<a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST_Wintergarden-internal-inst-772018.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST_Wintergarden-internal-inst-772010.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST_Wintergarden-internal-detail-710508.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST_Wintergarden-internal-detail-710501.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST_Wintergarden-ext-inst-1-748778.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST_Wintergarden-ext-inst-1-748765.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST_Wintergarden-ext-ins-2-705141.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VAN-LEEST_Wintergarden-ext-ins-2-705138.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div>For more information, follow this link:</div><div><a href="http://fedsquare.com/index.cfm?pageID=19&viewDate=2007-8-1&amp;eventID=723">Fed Square</a></div></div></div>emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037319100936101322.post-33929085174751000862007-08-14T14:49:00.000+10:002007-12-20T20:11:14.980+11:00<a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/5-742059.bmp"><img style="" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/5-742045.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/4-729584.bmp"><img style="" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/4-729572.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/3-721333.bmp"><img style="" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/3-721317.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/2-768826.bmp"><img style="" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/2-768807.bmp" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/vanleest02-733878.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 226px;" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/vanleest02-733872.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037319100936101322.post-89394497497075022092007-07-14T15:13:00.000+10:002007-08-17T14:30:01.777+10:00Emma van Leest will be exhibiting in the ARC Art Design and Craft Biennial in Brisbane in October.<br /><br />For more details, follow this link:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.artworkers.org/index.php?cID=2116&siblingID=&amp;webpage=arc_2007_master&apply=&amp;menuID=589&amp;menubox=">ARC Biennial</a>emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037319100936101322.post-113513825619432352007-03-21T10:29:00.000+11:002007-08-17T10:44:25.678+10:00<a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VILLAG~1-729569.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/VILLAG~1-729540.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Village murmurs 2006 Mixed media<br /><br /><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/borneinmind-774993.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/borneinmind-774643.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Borne in mind 2006 21x14<br /><br /><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/bequest-712910.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/bequest-712547.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Bequest 2006 14x21cm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/Attainment-761700.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/Attainment-761235.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Attainment 2007 30x45cm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/appeasement-713439.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/appeasement-713392.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Appeasement 2007 30x30cm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/appanage-733414.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/appanage-733049.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Appanage, 2007 45x90cm<br /><br /><a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/a-gradual-passing-705418.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/a-gradual-passing-705378.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />A gradual passing 2007 30x30cmemmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037319100936101322.post-89313973489736581092007-03-21T09:01:00.000+11:002007-08-17T13:00:00.231+10:00<a href="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/Goddess4-797834.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.emmavanleest.com/uploaded_images/Goddess4-797793.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong>21 February - 10 March 2007<br />John Buckley Gallery,<br />8 Albert St, Richmond VIC 3121</strong><br /><br />From the <a href="http://www.johnbuckley.com.au/">John Buckley</a> website:</div><br /><div></div><div>The Scissor Sisters are in town! And although artist, Emma van Leest, won’t be up there on stage with Mr Shears and co., she’ll be exhibiting some pretty fancy paper cutting of her own in her first solo show at John Buckley Gallery which opens on February 21st.<br /><br />Emma’s intricate and visually complex works – which, at first sight dazzle and mesmerise by virtue of their extraordinary technical skill, draw the viewer into the artist’s complex, imaginative universe: a rich amalgam of images which are borrowed from a host of disparate sources – orientalism, the lives of saints, folk art, Hindu literature and the fairytale world of the Brothers Grimm.<br /><br />On completing her honours year in Fine Arts at Melbourne’s RMIT, Emma eventually travelled to Indonesia to study Balinese and Javanese folk art. In Bantul, central Java, she studied the ancient art of shadow puppetry with Sagio, a master puppeteer:<br /><br />“It was amazing to work with someone who was able to enter into a realm of spirituality and folk lore. The Balinese have a unique approach to religion and daily life - a virtual world of Gods, morals and worship that is incorporated into daily life and domestic routines.”<br /><br />Later, as the recipient of an Australia Council Emerging Artist’s Travel Grant, she visited China to study traditional Chinese paper cutting techniques, but became much more engaged, both visually and conceptually, with the imagery of ancient gardens, houses, funerary objects and tombs which she encountered there. In particular, she was fascinated with miniature dioramas of people and landscapes and the spatial considerations involved with their construction.<br /><br />Such encounters, together with Emma’s original childhood experience of creating dreamlike fantasy worlds, have resulted in a remarkable body of work which she has been showing in a number of artist-run spaces over the past two years and which she now brings together in her first solo show.<br /><br />Emma van Leest’s work is currently included in the Price Waterhouse Coopers collection as well as various private collections in Australia, the United States, Indonesia and New Zealand.</div><br /><div></div><div></div><div>For more images and information, see <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Emma van Leest - Wayfaring</a>.</div>emmanoreply@blogger.com