Bio
Virginia Leonard
Statement
Chronic pain has no biological value. Modern medicine cannot reliably treat chronic pain. It lacks both language and voice.
I have sought a voice for my own pain. The objectlessness of chronic pain is processed and overcome through abstraction. Abstraction represents the voiceless. The language of my clay making is my attempt to rid my body of trauma and reduce my level of chronic pain.
These objects are my body.
Education/Positions
2003-2004 Supervisor, Master of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland
2001-2002 Teacher, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland
2001 Master of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland
EXHIBITIONS
Up Coming
Auckland Art Fair, Solo Installation, PAULNACHE, May 2018
Melbourne Art Fair, Solo Installation, PAULNACHE, August 2018
TRESOR, Taste Contemporary, Basel, September 2018
Solo Exhibition, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, October 2018
Solo Exhibition, Two Rooms, Auckland October 2018
2018
Collective Design Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, New York, March 2018
artgenève, Solo Installation, Taste Contemporary, Geneva
Exodus, The Vivian, Matakana
2017
Pulse Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami Beach
Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
Solo exhibition, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark
Farvestralende Keramik, Guldagergaard, Denmark
2016
HANDBUILT made in clay, Two Rooms, Auckland
Christmas Time at Middlemore, Corbans Estate Arts Centre, Auckland
Spring 1883 PAULNACHE, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
MUD, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark
Curiosity: 5 Artists / 5 Artworks / 5 Tools, Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville
Graffiti Lounge, PAULNACHE, Gisborne