Artist Bio
Leuca Jane Ziemons is an interdisciplinary artist, practice-led researcher and slow fashion designer. Her art practice encompasses installation works, narrative textile collections, traditional printmaking, sound and projection.
Leuca’s primary research focus centres upon present moment awareness and the quotidian moment. Utilising Mindfulness-Based Phenomenological Studies as developed in her Masters Research, Leuca offers her audience a mindfully choreographed, deeply contemplative, immersive experience.
Her work seeks to elevate the significance of the everyday with works that often inhabit the space of the unremarkable, in a way that is both captivating and at times haunting. Her work provides new ways of seeing through the recontextualization of garment, cloth, mark making and commonplace objects engendering space for personal reflection upon what may be ordinarily overlooked.
CV
Academic Studies
Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, Western Australia 2019-2022
Master of Arts by Research
Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, Western Australia 2013 -2018
BCA Contemporary Fashion and Textiles with Visual Arts
Open University Distance Learning Studies 2009-2013
Exploring Art and Visual Culture
Dundee University 1997-1998
Post Graduate Certificate in Primary Education (Distinction)
Abertay University 1991-1995
BA (Hons) Business Studies
Selected Shows and Exhibitions
2022 Finding Comfort in an Unmade Bed, Gallery 25, Mount Lawley, WA
2021 Aura, Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle, WA
2021 All That Remains, Ellenbrook, WA
2021 Polyphony, Gallery 25. Mount Lawley, WA
2020 Hanging by a Thread, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA
2020 WOMXN, Spectrum Project Space, Mount Lawley, WA
2019 Nexus, Gallery 25, Mount Lawley, WA
2019 Fragmented Memories, Spectrum Project Space, Mount Lawley, WA
2018 Eco Fashion Week Australia, Fremantle, WA
2018 Urban Couture, Joondalup, WA
2018 New Mode Collective Ethical Fashion Conference, Fremantle, WA
2017 Meniscus Spectrum Gallery, Mount Lawley, WA
2017 Eco Fashion Week Australia, Fremantle, WA
2016 Untitled Studios, Fort William, Scotland, UK
2015 Pencil, Print and Prose, Joondalup Art Gallery, Joondalup, WA
2014 Fairly Fashionable, Fremantle, WA
Artist Residencies
2023 October-December M/others who make Artist Residency, MJAC, Midland, WA
2021 December Artist in Residency @No. 29 Margaret River, WA
2018 July-December Artist/Designer in Residence, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, WA
teaching & Management experience
Loop Foundation: Partnerships, Production & Training Manager 2022-Current
Melaleuca Rise Print and Textiles Studio: Workshop Facilitator 2020-2022
Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, WA: Casual Academic 2019-2021
Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, WA: Guest Workshop Facilitator 2018
Creative Kids Club, WA: Workshop Art Teacher 2017-2020
Loopy Red Hen Studio, Tasmania, Australia: Workshop Facilitator 2015-2016
Perth and Kinross Council, Scotland, UK: Primary & Art Specialist Teacher 2004-2011
Tanzanian Government, Morogoro International School, Africa: Teacher 2001-2003
Perth and Kinross Council, Scotland, UK: Primary Teacher 1998-2001