I want to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land I live and work on, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
About
Leanne Xiu Williams lives and works on Gadigal land (Sydney). She is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the National Art School.
Her practice explores the ambivalence of memory and its relationship to identity and representation. Informed by her diasporic experience, her work reflects how memory can be fragmented, inherited or imagined. Through painting, remembrance becomes an active process - one in which memory is continually negotiated and reimagined.
Working with personal, found and archival images, Williams investigates how images shape and complicate memory. Her paintings aim to give form to ambiguity and construct open-ended narratives that question how we remember, what we inherit, and how images influence us.
Leanne Xiu Williams lives and works on Gadigal land (Sydney). She is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the National Art School.
Her practice explores the ambivalence of memory and its relationship to identity and representation. Informed by her diasporic experience, her work reflects how memory can be fragmented, inherited or imagined. Through painting, remembrance becomes an active process - one in which memory is continually negotiated and reimagined.
Working with personal, found and archival images, Williams investigates how images shape and complicate memory. Her paintings aim to give form to ambiguity and construct open-ended narratives that question how we remember, what we inherit, and how images influence us.
She
2025-26
2020
2020
Master of Fine Arts at the National Art School
BA in Art History/Japanese from the University of Sydney
BA in Art History/Japanese from the University of Sydney
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Finalist in Burwood Art Prize
Group show ‘Homebody’ at Landslide Gallery (Blue Mountains)
Solo show ‘Linger’ at Saint Cloche (Sydney)
Group show ‘In Bloom’ at Blank Gallery (Sydney)
Solo show ‘Change the Course’ with Two Good Co x Saint Cloche (Sydney)
Finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Award
Group Show ‘Good Fortune’ at Blank Gallery (Sydney)
Group show ‘Point to Point’ with The Design Files x Saint Cloche (Melbourne)
Solo show ‘Vessels’ at Saint Cloche
Group show ‘Best Life’ at Saint Cloche
Featured on Sydney Contemporary Online Platform with Saint Cloche
FBi Digital Art Auction
Solo Show “Between Dreams” at Gaffa Gallery
Finalist in the Lloyd Rees Memorial Award
Finalist in the Lethbridge 20000
Solo show ‘Threshold’ at Babekuhl Gallery
Group show ‘Love me, Love me not’ at Goodspace
Group show ‘Homebody’ at Landslide Gallery (Blue Mountains)
Solo show ‘Linger’ at Saint Cloche (Sydney)
Group show ‘In Bloom’ at Blank Gallery (Sydney)
Solo show ‘Change the Course’ with Two Good Co x Saint Cloche (Sydney)
Finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Award
Group Show ‘Good Fortune’ at Blank Gallery (Sydney)
Group show ‘Point to Point’ with The Design Files x Saint Cloche (Melbourne)
Solo show ‘Vessels’ at Saint Cloche
Group show ‘Best Life’ at Saint Cloche
Featured on Sydney Contemporary Online Platform with Saint Cloche
FBi Digital Art Auction
Solo Show “Between Dreams” at Gaffa Gallery
Finalist in the Lloyd Rees Memorial Award
Finalist in the Lethbridge 20000
Solo show ‘Threshold’ at Babekuhl Gallery
Group show ‘Love me, Love me not’ at Goodspace
Press
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Feature in American Chordata
Article Feature in Rush Magazine, ‘Distilled Life’
Collaboration with Two Good Co for their cookbook, ‘Change the Course’
Exhibition Feature in Concrete Playground
Featured in The Design Files’ ‘10 Emerging, Affordable Artists You Need To Have On Your Watchlist’ article
Collaboration with Maillot for their project “In-Motion”
‘5 Artists To See This July’ in Life Without Andy, written by Andrew Yee
Featured in Flight Facilties’ NEVER FOREVER mixtape visualiser by Babekühl
Article Feature in Rush Magazine, ‘Distilled Life’
Collaboration with Two Good Co for their cookbook, ‘Change the Course’
Exhibition Feature in Concrete Playground
Featured in The Design Files’ ‘10 Emerging, Affordable Artists You Need To Have On Your Watchlist’ article
Collaboration with Maillot for their project “In-Motion”
‘5 Artists To See This July’ in Life Without Andy, written by Andrew Yee
Featured in Flight Facilties’ NEVER FOREVER mixtape visualiser by Babekühl