About

After a sojourn into film and television for 20 years, Chris Leaver returned to sculpture and contemporary art around 2006 with a new-found enthusiasm for crossing boundaries and styles.
You can see that this diverse background in film and sculpture gives a great breadth of influences, which he is currently exploring through sound, vision and sculptural works.
Conceptually, Leaver’s work is rooted in contemporary culture and with references to Lacan’s ideas on the Real and the symbolic, he creates a complex narrative drawing as he does on historical influences, colonialism, nostalgia all mashed up with contemporary materials.
Leaver, by using tableaux, parody and surreal forms, by engaging with moments of nature and history- control and entropy  creates works which provoke, confound, reveal and, playfully question at the same time,  all the while being a pleasure to behold.


Bio

Education

1984-86 SCA, BA Visual arts

1988-91 UTS, post-grad Diploma Design Studies

2011-12 SCA, (Syd Uni) MSA (Sculpture and Video)

Selected Exhibitions

1986-1995 selected group and solo painting shows at Kinesis gallery and

Celf gallery, Leichhardt and Enmore

2006          Solo show, Blankspace (painting)

                   Sculpture by the Sea

2008          Woollahra Small sculpture Prize      

                   ACCP group show, Melbourne (painting)

2009          Sculpture by the Sea

2010          UWS Sculpture Prize Finalist

2012          UWS Sculpture Prize Finalist, Winner Peoples Choice Award

2012          Graduate show, SCA

2014          UWS Sculpture Prize Finalist

2017          "Air" group show, Manly Art Gallery.

2018          Kingdom of God, solo show, Vandal Gallery.

2018          UWS Sculpture Prize Finalist.

                  

Work in both Public and Private Collections.