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Leslie Eastman
Exhibitions

The Cave, the Flood

Encounters

Light upon Light

Lightmatter
The Waves of the Same Sea
CIC
Heliotrope
Air Light Form
The Illuminated Field
The Observer Effect
A Scintillation of Particles and Waves
Corrected Perspective
Thresholds and Displacements
The Implicate Order
 For the Being of Time
For the Time Being
XYZ : NYC
Synoptic
A History’s Shadow
Meridian
Dark Light
Formless
Pointform
The Visible and the Invisible
Eraserhead
Intelligence
Cube
Gertrude Residency
Scan
In the Light of the Other
A General Review of Gain and Loss
Negotiation
Artschool


Light Projects
Studio Networks
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This is the website of artist Leslie Eastman who lives and works in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.


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 respectfully acknowledge their ancestors and elders, past and present and their enduring connection to the land and creative culture which dates back over 60,000 years, dwarfing the history of my ancestors.  I also extend my respects and good wishes to all peoples who live with the consequences of European colonialism.


Leslie Eastman

Scan

Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, 1996



The audience’s encounter becomes the subject of a work that is completed in the moment of its contemplation by each viewer. My underlying intention in this work was to slow the viewing moment. Only by remaining stationary could the viewer see through the reflective surface, Scan utilised light responsive mirrored film and lighting activated through movement. The virtual and actual views of the architecture of the room intersected and were layered. Scan was the sketch for the Visible and the Invisible and the performative response from viewers of the work has informed subsequent projects.


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