Leonie Leivenzon is a multidisciplinary artist based near Daylesford in regional Victoria. Working across sculpture, assemblage, installation, printmaking and painting, she uses found domestic objects, wax and discarded materials to explore ideas of care, memory, identity and emotional attachment.
Her work often begins with objects that feel worn, repaired, overlooked or emotionally charged — things that carry traces of use, relationships and personal histories. By bringing these materials together into fragile and sometimes unstable arrangements, she examines the ways people project meaning onto objects and use them to preserve memories, construct identity and navigate emotional experience.
Leivenzon is interested in the tension between preservation and collapse: how objects can be treasured and neglected at the same time, and how attempts to repair or protect something can also reveal its vulnerability.
With a background in medicine and hypnotherapy, her practice is informed by long-term engagement with listening, human behaviour and care structures. Through material experimentation and accumulation, her work portrays the emotional lives of objects, and the fragile systems people create to hold meaning together.
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EDUCATION
2022 - Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash University
2020 - Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University
2010 - Diploma Hypnotherapy, AHS
2009 - Certificate IV Hypnotherapy, AHS
1997 – FRACGP
1991 - MBBS (Hons), Monash University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - ReDisassembly Point, Assembly Point, Southbank, Melbourne
2023 - Unremembered Histories, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
2022 - Seen/Unseen, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
2021 - Memorial to a Fictional Life, Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne
2019 - The Mythic Poem, Intermission Gallery, Melbourne
2018 - Distant Intimacy, Intermission Gallery, Melbourne
2016 - The Adventures of Angela and Alfonso, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 - Daylesford Arts Autumn Exhibition, Daylesford Town Hall, Daylesford
2025 - Connected Horizons, Stanbridge Hall, Daylesford
2024 - Modern Primaries: CMYK, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2022 - MADA Now, Monash University, Melbourne
2022 - Figuratively Speaking, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2021 - Flow, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2020 - MADA Now, Monash University, Melbourne
2019 - Physical Absence: A Human Portrait, Missing Persons Space, Melbourne
2019 - Collection: an imagining by emerging curators, Monash University, Melbourne
2019 - Broken Telephone, Intermission Gallery, Melbourne
2018 - Atlas of the unseen and unspoken, A Constructed World, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 - Wall to Wall MADA Exhibition, Monash University, Melbourne
2016 - Myths and Memory, Beth Hulme Gallery, Melbourne
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AND MENTORSHIPS
2021 - The Tanks, Cairns, Queensland
2020/2021 - Memo Review Emerging Art Critics Mentorship Program
2020 - No. 29, Margaret River, Western Australia
2020 - Monash MPavilion Student Art Grant
AWARDS AND FINALIST POSITIONS
2022 - Finalist, The Percivals, Townsville, Queensland
2021 - Finalist, Northern Beaches Library Artist’s Book Award, Sydney
2015 - Group One Finalist, Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award, Brisbane
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
2025(ongoing) - Secretary, Daylesford Arts, regional artist cooperative
2019 – President, Intermission Gallery, Monash University Fine Art student-run gallery
PUBLICATIONS
2022 – “Conversations with Objects”, artist text, leoniel.com.au
2021 – “Memorial to a Fictional Life”, project text, leoniel.com.au
2020 – Featured in Memo Review: MASS MEMO
2020 – Featured in Memo Review: MASS MEMO (Alice Mawhinney)
2016 – Arts Review, “On the Couch with Leonie Leivenzon”