Artist CV
Leah Clarke
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Email: leahclarkeartstudio@gmail.com
Website: leahclarkeartstudio.blogspot.com
Education
Certificate 4 Visual Arts, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, 2016
Certifications
Ochre Card - working with children clearance (NT)
Professional Development
and Artist led Courses
2024 Art Gallery of South Australia - 2024 Educator Professional Development
Online 12 hour Package
2014–15 Drawing for Everyone with Gaye Coyne,
Adult Night Classes, Casuarina Senior College, Casuarina, NT
2014–15 Watercolour with Alison Worsnop,
Adult Night Classes, Casuarina Senior College, Casuarina, NT
2014–15 Anatomy for Artist with Alison Worsnop,
Adult Night Classes, Casuarina Senior College, Casuarina, NT
2014 Oil Painting with Shilo McNamee,
Adult Night Classes, Casuarina Senior College, Casuarina, NT
Exhibition Record
Solo Exhibitions
November 2021 Ephemeral: Green Ants Nests and other Treasures,
Darwin Visual Arts Association, NT
September 2016 Pyjama Years: Surviving Anxiety, Depression and Panic,
Darwin Visual Arts Association, NT
Group Exhibitions
December 2023 27th Annual Human Rights Art Awards & Exhibition
Darwin Supreme Court
November 2023 Too Bloody Hot! - NCCA Members show
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, NT
November 2023 TROPICON 2023
Darwin Entertainment Centre
November 2023 ICONIC, DVA Members group exhibition
Darwin Visual Arts, NT
November 2023 UNCERTAIN GROUND, DCA Members Show
Darwin Community Arts, NT
May 2023 Jetty Artspace Awards
Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival, NT
April 2023 Off Cuts Exhibition,
Don Whyte Framing, NT
March 2023 The Female Gaze - DVA Members Exhibition Opening
Darwin Visual Arts, NT
November 2022 Eclection, DVA Members Exhibition,
Darwin Visual Arts, NT
November 2022 24HR Art: NCCA Annual Members' Show
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, NT
November 2022 biotic communities Darwin Community Arts members show
Untitled Gallery +Studio, NT
November 2021 Recycle, Rework, Remake - NCCA Members show
Northern Centre for Contemporay Art, NT
October 2021 Botanical Mono Prints,
Untitled Gallery +Studio, NT
June 2021 Courtney Love Appreciation Exhibition
Radio Gnome Record’s, Darwin, NT
March 2021 Home, Members show
Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin, NT
August 2018 Foot Square
Aspire Gallery, Paddington, QLD
August 2016 Life and the After Life,
Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin, NT
August 2016 Visual Arts Student Exhibition,
Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT
June 2016 The Flyway Print Exchange: Birds without Borders Project,
Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT
April 2016 Offcuts
Don Whyte Framing, Coconut Grove, NT
March 2016 An Awful Lot of Coffee…’
Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin, NT
November 2015 Through the Keyhole,
Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin, NT
March 2015 Darwin Life Drawing: Time and Scale
Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin, NT
March 2015 DVAA Members Show
Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin, NT
2009 Artist Bazaar,
Adelaide Fringe Festive, Adelaide, SA
Work Experience
and Employment
Aug 2021 - Current Arts Facilitator and Youth Officer, Youth and Culture Team
Kentish Lifelong Learning and Care Inc., Yarrawonga,NT
June 2016 Assistant Curator, Flyway Print Exchange
Birds Without Borders Award 2016.
Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT
April 2015 Event Assistant, Saltwater Craft Fair
Tactile Arts, Darwin NT
March 2015 Gallery Invigilator, Darwin Life Drawing: Time and Scale
Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin, NT
Awards
December 2023 Dynamics of Dialogue, kinetic sculpture
Principal Artist in collaboration with Kentish Lifelong Learning & Care
Highly Commended Certificate – Darwin Community Legal Service
27th Annual Human Rights Art Awards & Exhibition
November 2023 Doormouse lives in Hatters Hat - Wearable Sculpture
Mad Snake Art Award at TROPICON 2023
May 2023 Find your Fish, under the sea - Foam Clay on Canvas
Principal artist in collaboration with Kentish Lifelong Learning & Care
Open Groups category - Jetty Artspace Awards
Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival
June 2016 Early morning, Buffalo Creek, Multi-plate etching
Flyway Print Exchange – Birds Without Borders Award 2016
Bibliography
Print Media
2016 Tamara Howie, “Art Beat”
Sunday Territorian Newspaper , June 12, 2016, pg26.
Online Periodicals
2016 Katie Weiss, “Print exchange project lands in Darwin”
CDU E-news, June 20 2016
Collections
Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT
Professional Memberships
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
Darwin Visual Arts (DVA)
Darwin Community Arts (DCA)
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA)