Lucinda Leveille

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 New Works Pauline Ewers Fine Art, Toorak, Victoria 2006 Pushing The Boundaries Bruce Watling Galleries, Southport, Queensland SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 The Morris Art Prize Artlovers Australia Prize Lethbridge Small Scale Award Coast To Country 10 Women Artists supporting women 2013/18 d’arcy Doyle Art Prize 2008 Mortimore Art Prize & Traveling Exhibition 2003 Nerang Chamber of Commerce Exhibition 2002 Society Of Sculptors BIBLIOGRAPHY 2018 Home Design Magazine November, full page feature Artlovers Australia Book 2018 feature, p 6 Art Edit Magazine Summer edition issue 16, p 69 and 108 Artsy Shark Autumn feature artist 2007 Women In Focus Magazine August, feature p 39 2006 This Month on the Broadwater July 2006, feature p 5 2003 Gold Coast Sun Newspaper January feature article, p 10 SELECTED COLLECTIONS 2014 Gold Coast Volunteer Coast Guard 2008 Private Collection, Corfu, Greece 2004 Gold Coast Italo Australian Club (public space) 2003 Gold Coast City Council, Nerang Library 2002 Nerang Chamber of Commerce (public space) 2001 Gladstone, Queensland (public space) 2000 Rockhampton, Queensland (public space) 1999 Private collection, London, England 1998 Private collection, Spain SELECTED AWARDS 2018 Morris Art Prize, Finalist Artlovers Australia Prize, Finalist Lethbridge Small Scale Award, Finalist 2013 d’arcy Doyle Art Awards, Highly commended, landscape 2008 Mortimore Art Prize and Traveling Exhibition, finalist 2002-2005 Sculptors Society, various awards 1998-2015 Gold Coast Show Society, various awards RESIDENCIES 2016 Gold Coast City Council

Which new trends or Australian artists do you find inspiring at the moment?I don’t really follow new trends or any artists – I go where my paintbrush leads.

Which Australian deceased artist do you most admire and why?Brett Whitely for his amazing draughtsmanship.

Which exhibition that you have visited made the greatest impact on you and why?I was quite young, I don’t think I had left school and I saw a Rodin sculpture in Sydney – the Burghers of Calias and I was totally mesmerized, I decided I wanted to sculpt then and there. However, things change and I ended up a painter.

Where do you get your inspiration for your work?I am inspired by the water at the moment – whether it is still water, fresh or salt, the sounds and smells all contribute to a painting. But most of the time you simply see something and go ‘O.K. got to get that on canvas.’

Do you have any rituals or habits involving your art-making that you can tell us about?Not really, but I am always exploring new products to see if they will improve my practice. Or seeing what is new on the market, you might find something that leads you in a new direction or opens up the possibilities of something new happening on the canvas.

What do you like most about being an artist?I am my own boss! How do you handle bad days when you experience artist's block? I always take what Brett Whitely said as fact, it is a job and on a day when nothing creative is happening you go into the studio – tidy, clean, do whatever you need to do to get organized. When you go in the next day something will happen – treat it as a job – 9 to 5.

What is your greatest achievement as an artist to date?I suppose the two solo shows that I had in a row, but having said that, I was pretty well burnt out after and didn’t paint for a few years after that. But I it was always a dream to have a ‘solo’. Do you feel that you want to make a difference to the world or in people's lives? If yes, how? I would like to leave the world a little more happier, calmer, more pleasant to be living in I guess. I would like to think that I lived and added to people’s lives not detracted.

What are your plans for the coming year?To keep on exploring, learning and expanding my art practice. There is always something new out there.