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Sue Leeming

Sue Leeming

Media:

Painting

Training: 1995 Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts
1991 – 1994 Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Awards: 2003 City of Cambridge Art Awards,WA - First Prize
2002 Northcity Annual Art Awards,WA - First Prize
1995 North Shore City Art Awards, Auckland, NZ - Merit Award.
  Exhibitions: 1995 Local Knowledge, Flight House, New Plymouth. New Zealand
1999 An exhibition of paintings and prints, Artplace, Claremont WA, Australia
1997 From a Sense of Place, Lesley Kreisler Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1994 Te Hono o Nga Motu / The Joining of Two Islands, Te Taumata Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2003 City of Cambridge Art Awards Wembly, WA, Australia
  Email: leemings@openaccess.com.au

The one unifying element conceptually throughout Sue’s work has been spirituality. As she began to address the spiritual in art Sue realized the challenge she faced as an artist to depict that which cannot be seen with a medium that requires of us the ability to see. Sue began to seek out devices through which she could trigger awareness in the viewer of the spiritual realm. She sought to create a sense of presence, the weight of a significance that transcends the physical nature of the medium.

It is not really the land that intrigues me so much, rather, the lives of the people its presence suggests.

The concepts of eternity and timelessness and our existence within the framework of time has always been a fascination to her. We cannot function outside this framework and through her images Sue suggests the transient nature of time and is able to transcend its boundaries.