ABOUT
Leah Pirone (LAH)
EDUCATION ///
Fine Art and Visual Culture Bachelors Degree (Distinction), Curtin University, 2023
Environmental Art and Design, Midland TAFE, 2000
Advanced Certificate Art and Design, Carine TAFE, 1999
RESIDENCE ///
Perth, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS ///
Kent Street Gallery, Victoria Park, 2017
GROUP EXHIBITION ///
City of South Perth Emerging Artist Awards, South Perth, 2023
Army Art, Perth, 2019
Mia Cafe, Inglewood, 2007
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS ///
City of South Perth Emerging Artist Awards, Painting Award, South Perth, 2023
Vice Chancellors Award, Curtin University, 2023
Art For Epilepsy – Community News Interview
Shutterstock Portfolio
TEACHING ///
Teaching Artist, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2022 – present
Private Workshops, 2017 – 2023
WRITING ///
Visual Culture essays
NFP RECIPIENTS ///
Headspace
Ruah Womens Refuge
Zonta House
Indigo Junction
Carbon Neutral
WWF
Rainforest 4 Foundation
Carbon Reduction Institute
Take 3
Leah Pirone (LAH) is a writer and an emerging, multidisciplinary artist born in Perth, Western Australia. After completing a double degree in Fine Art and Visual Culture at Curtin University with High Distinctions in both, she is continuing her work exploring themes of imbalances of power, particularly through a gendered lens. She works at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in the Learning and Creativity Research department contributing to the investigation of how audiences engage and contribute to participatory exhibitions through critical discourse, meaningful engagement, material practices, and aesthetic outcomes.
At 19 she had a tonic clonic epileptic seizure that almost took her life and although post tremors are with her most days she continues to hand draw, illustrate & paint. Creating calms the wobble! With exhibitions planned for 2024, LAH works from her studio and uses music, Jungian depth psychology and nature as her muse.