Leslie Eastman

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Every perception takes place in an atmosphere of generality, and is presented to us anonymously. I cannot say ‘I see the blue of the sky’ in the sense in which I say I understood a book, or that I have decided to devote my life to mathematics....Every time I experience a sensation, I feel that it concerns not my own being, the one for which I am responsible, and for which I make decisions, but another self, which has already sided with the world, which is already open to certain of its aspects, and synchronized with them. Between my sensation and myself there stands always the thickness of some primordial acquisition which prevents my experience from being clear to itself (Primacy of perception, 215-216, Maurice Meleau-Ponty).			SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS 2006 *Synoptic* 06 with Natasha Johns-Messenger, Mir 11, Melb, 2005 *Formless, commissioned by Experimenta art Inc for Vanishing Point, Melb, 2004* Pointform, with Natasha Johns-Messenger, Conical Gallery, Melb, 1998 *Cube, with Andy Thomson and Daniel von Sturmer in Strangely Familiar, curated by Claire Williams, ACCA, Melb, 1997 General Review of Gain and Loss, with Andy Thomson and Daniel von Sturmer, Westspace, Melb 1996* *The Art of Listening, with Brenda Ludeman, Nicole Tomlinson and Georgina Konstandakopoulos, Linden Gallery, Melb. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS* 2006 Apartment, at Apartment, 2002 Several Contingent Provisionalities, Penthouse and Pavement, Melb. Eraserhead, RMIT Project Space, 1998 *Untitled, Grey Area Art Space Inc, Melb, In the Light of the Other* 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space Melb.,1997 *Scan, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude St, Melb, Flux, Stripp Gallery, Melb,1996 In Time* 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space, Melb. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 An answer for the parts only itinerant sighs can fathom, curated by Storm Gold, Victoria Park Gallery, Stranger Geography curated by Kit Wise, Palazzo Vaj Prato Italy, 2005 *Australian New Media Art, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Skopje, November, Australian Video Art 5uper, Museumsqartier, Vienna, 2004 The Visible and the Invisible commissioned for Swoon, ACCA, Melb, 2003* *Video Projekt, Kings Space Gallery, Melbourne, VCA Projects, curated by John Neeson, VCA Gallery , Melbourne, 2002 Gating* curated by Michael Graeve, Westspace, Melb, 1998 *Lux, Curated by Julian Savage, 1st Floor, Melb, 1997* *Flat, curated by Michael Goldsmith, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Adjacent, curated by Susie Atiwell, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne, 1996* *Dermartology, curated by Stephen O’Connell, 200 Gertude St, Melb. AWARDS 2005* Australia Council; New Work, Experimenta Commission Funding, 1998 Australian Film Commission Grant for @, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne,1997 200 Gertrude Studio Residency, Arts 21 Grant for General Review of Gain and Loss, Westspace, Pat Corrigan Grant for General Review of Gain and Loss, RMIT Postgraduate Award 1995 William Anglis Graduate Prize, Neville Jeffress Graduate Prize
Scan, Studio 12, 1997 *The Visible and the Invisibl*e, commissioned for Swoon, ACCA, 2004
*Cube, with Andy Thomson and Daniel von Sturmer in Strangely Familiar, curated by Claire Williams, ACCA, Melb, General Review of Gain and Loss, with Andy Thomson and Daniel von Sturmer, Westspace, Melb 1996*
Eraserhead RMIT Project Space, 2002	Fidelity, VCA Projects 1, curated by John R Neeson, VCA Gallery	The art of listening, Linden, 1997
In Time 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space 1996 *In the Light of the Other* 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space 1998	Negotiation 1st Site RMIT 1995 Turning, Ist Site, RMIT, 1996	Several Provisional Contingencies not Necessarily Precluding the Eventuality of Reconcilliatory Union, Penthouse and Pavement, 2002
Studio 5, Gertrude Contemporary Arts Space Studio Residency 1997/98
*Pointform, a collaboration with Natasha Johns-Messenger, Conical, 2004 Formless, with NJM, commissioned for Vanishing Point by Experimenta Art Inc. 2005 Synoptic* 06 with NJM, MIR 11, 2006
Loop, in Stranger Geography, curated by Kit Wise , Palazzo Vaj, Prato Italy 2007	Searching for my fathers house, under and over, Monash Faculty Gallery, 2007	Apart-ment at Apartment 2007

itinerant sighs	early works