Leah Mariani is a Melbourne based figurative artist, producing prints, paintings, drawings and collage. She is inspired by fashion photography, portraiture and pattern making and explores relationships and childhood memories.
Leah completed her Certificate IV in Visual Arts in 2013 and recently completed her Diploma in Visual Arts. She has been shortlisted for the 2016 ‘She’ competition, 2015 Flanagan Art Prize, Lethbridge 10,000 Small-Scale Art Prize three years in a row, the 2013 Agendo Award and the 2011 Metro Award. In 2013, Leah won the Yen Magazine Female Artist Award.
Education
Present Graduate Certificate of Visual Arts at VCA
2016 Diploma Visual Arts, Box Hill Institute, Melbourne
2013 Certificate IV Visual Arts, Centre Adult Education, Melbourne
1998 Bachelor of Commerce, University of Melbourne
Solo exhibitions
2018 Curiouser & Curiouser, Steps Gallery, Carlton VIC
2016 I Like Pretty Things, Melbourne City Library, VIC
2015 Cut from the Same Cloth, Richmond Town Hall, VIC
2014 Cut from the Same Cloth, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North, VIC
2014 Cut from the Same Cloth, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2012 Present Yourself, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
Selected group exhibitions
2016 Icons Uncovered, No Vacancy Gallery QV, Melbourne VIC
2016 Joined & Jumbled, Beth Hulme Gallery, North Fitzroy, VIC
2016 She, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, VIC
2015 Annual show, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2015 Gippsland Print Award, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC
2015 Contemporary Arts Society Annual Exhibition, Richmond, VIC
2015 Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat, VIC
2015 Affordable Art Under $2,000, Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, VIC
2015 Colour Box Launch Show, Melbourne, VIC
2015 T-anything, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, VIC
2015 Girlhood, Union Club Hotel, Fitzroy, VIC
2015 Summer II, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn, VIC
2014 ARC Biennial Drawing Price, Yinnar, VIC
2014 Lethbridge 10000 Small-Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2014 Cambridge Studio Portrait Prize, Collingwood, VIC
2014 40X40 Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2013 69Fifiteen, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2013 Agendo, St Heliers Street Gallery, The Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford, VIC
2013 Rob McNamara Exhibition, Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
2013 Yen Art Award, Gaffa, Sydney, NSW
2013 Lethbridge 10000 Smale-Scall Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2013 Emerging Artist Exhibition, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2013 CPM National Print Awards, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
2013 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, VIC
2012 The Secret Life of Space, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2012 Young & Free, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne, VIC
2012 Rob McNamara Exhibition, Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood, VIC
2012 Lethbridge 10000 Small-Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2012 After Image, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, VIC
2012 Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Hawthorn Town Hall, Hawthorn, VIC
2012 40X40 Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2012 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, VIC
2011 Transformation, Box Hill Community Art Centre, Box Hill, VIC
2011 Metro Art Award, Metro Gallery, Armadale, VIC
2010 Student Exhibition, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
In the press
2016 Sanghamitra Das, 'What Makes an Artist: Leah Mariani and Her Take on Fashion', Bluethumb blog
2015 Sharmane Rabusa, 'CBS Member Interview with Leah Mariani', Colour Box Studio
2015 Simone Murcutt, 'Leah Mariani: I like pretty things', Desktop Magazine online
2014 Karina Lowndes, 'Leah Mariani Cut From the Same Cloth', Yen magazine online
2013 Annie Sebel, 'Leah Mariani', Yen magazine, Issue 64
2012 Sally Spalding, 'Craft your Surrey Hills Winner', Port Phillip Leader
2011 'Art Nod May be Rich Reward for Accountant', Mooney Valley Leader
Awards
2018 Finalist - Lethbridge 10000 Small-Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2018 Finalist - Contemporary Art Awards 2018.
2017 Finalist - OBI Art Prize, Maleny Community Centre, QLD
2016 Hornsby Art Prize, Finalist, Wallarobba NSW
2014 Best Work on Paper, Albert Park Collage Art Show
2013 Yen Female Art Award, Gaffa, Sydney
2011 Best Oil Painting, Albert Park Collage Art Show
