Leslie Eastman
Exhibitions
Leslie Eastman is a visual artist and academic based in Naarm, Melbourne, whose work explores themes of perception, site-specific installation, and socio-political commentary through mixed media -drawing, video, sculpture, and light-based installations.
I wish to honour and pay my respects to the traditional owners and custodians of the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations, where I live and work. Also, to the Wada wurrung, Djab Warung peoples of what is now known as Ballarat, and the Bindal and Wulgurukaba People of what is known as the Townsville area in the north east of this continent where I spent my teenage years.
I also extend my respects and good wishes to all peoples who live with the consequences of European colonialism.
Studio 5 Gertrude Contemporary Art Space
Residency
The two year studio residency provided the opportunity for a sustained observation of environmental phenomena specific to site: in particular light changes over the first year where documented through time lapse film and video, photography, filtering sun rays through window apertures and finally the development of various approaches to the camera obscura documented here. These were presented as a series of one off studio viewings throughout the various seasons of the second year.
