Saskia Leek
{{Short description|New Zealand painter (born 1970)}}
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}}Saskia Leek (born 1970) is a New Zealand painter.
Life and career
Leek has been known to use already existing prints and op-shop images as a starting point for some of her works. Her subject matter has included house pets, sunsets and sunrises, homes and cottages, chimneys and horses. Leek's focus has shifted from representation to Cubism and into Abstraction and thus has reflected the path of 20th century art.
Leek was born in 1970 in Christchurch. {{As of|2022}} she lives in Dunedin.{{Cite web|url=https://ocula.com/artists/saskia-leek/|title=Saskia Leek {{!}} Artworks, Exhibitions, Profile & Content|date=2019-02-15|website=ocula.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-15}}{{cite news |last1=fox |first1=Rebecca |title=The dance of two artists |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-lifestyle/star-entertainment/dance-two-artists |access-date=13 May 2022 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=12 May 2022}} She graduated from the Canterbury School of Fine Arts.Dekker, Diana. [http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/visual-arts/8200687/Saskia-Leek-rummaging-reuniting Saskia Leek: rummaging, reuniting]. Dominion Post, 2013. Leek finished her MFA at the Elam School of Fine Art in 2016 in Auckland.{{Cite web|url=https://dunedin.art.museum/exhibitions/now/early_telepaths|title=Exhibitions now showing|last=Dunedin Public Art Gallery|date=2019|access-date=16 February 2019}}{{cite thesis |last=Leek |first=Saskia |year=2016 |type=Masters thesis |title=Dropping Out, Holding On |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/31485}}
In 1997 she won the Olivia Spencer Bower Award.{{Cite web|url=http://oliviaspencerbower.org.nz/background.htm|title=Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award|website=oliviaspencerbower.org.nz|access-date=2019-02-11}} In 2009, Leek was nominated for the Auckland Art Gallery's Walters PrizeDunn, Megan. [http://www.listener.co.nz/culture/art/saskia-leek-desk-collection-review/ Saskia Leek: Desk Collection – review]. New Zealand Listener, 2013. for her series Yellow is the Putty of the World. In 2012 Nick Austin, Leek's partner, was awarded the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship. This resulted in the couple moving from Auckland to Dunedin for a year and staying on afterwards.{{Cite journal|last=Art New Zealand|date=Summer 2018|title=Art New Zealand|journal=Art New Zealand|volume=168|pages=46–53}}
In 2022 Bordering on the Miraculous was published, a collaboration between Leek and the poet Lynley Edmeades.
Exhibitions
2009 VARIOUS NIGHTS IN HEAVY LIGHT, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2008 Thick Air Method, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
2008 Better Places, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia.
2007 Tunnels, nets and holes, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2006 - 2007 The Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Public Collections
References
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External links
- [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Person/5948 Saskia Leek] in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Category:Artists from Christchurch
Category:Elam Art School alumni
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