Multidisciplinary visual artist with a continuous professional career of more than 20 years in graphic design and illustration. She is fascinated by the unknown and the everyday, learning through vivid explorations of language, perspectives, ecologies, and culture.

During her time at ´ace,  Leanne worked on the searching of street Lyrics and the combination of familiar public language with unfamiliar intentions. It’s a playful, personal response to the unique urban environment of Buenos Aires, investigating abstract notions of the street and language. Both entities are constantly changing and evolving, alive with relational meaning and mystery, loaded with signs, symbols, history and politics.

After exploring the city on foot, absorbing and observing she was drawn to the ubiquitous metal offcuts aesthetically scattered on the pavement like poetry, claves, clues, treasures waiting to be interpreted. ¨Como la calle me habla¨ (As the street speaks to me) Quietly asking to be reassembled, scrambled, scrabbled. As an absurd poem unravels from a few metal shapes making limited makeshift letterforms, an irregular rhythm and pedestrian pace prevail. Blending English, Spanish, local porteño and French, where infinite possible meanings, misunderstandings and mistranslations emerge. The distinctive veredas of Buenos Aires provide the centre stage for this lyrical charla con la calle.

ARTIST´STATEMENT

I work with ordinary objects and the everyday, creating democratic visual languages which playfully contemplate collective consciousness and the absurdity of constructed reality. Embracing an ad-hoc, makeshift aesthetic, my work examines what familiar, mundane objects and surroundings can reveal about social and psychological states at large, connecting micro to macro phenomena. Drawing from lived experience, magic realism and contemporary conditions, my practice implicates themes of memory, perception, mass consumption, existentialism and constant states of change. My working process is approached intuitively through embodied action (walking, movement, play), allowing the private, emotional and unconscious to blend with awareness of current social circumstance. The work invites connections, valuing humour, ambiguity and indeterminacy as ends in their own right.