About 

Leanne Stewart Haugh is a visual artist who employs a multi-disciplinary approach and uses a wide range of mediums in her art’s practice. Recent bodies of work have included the use of video, sound art, installation, sculpture, performance, animation, painting, printmaking, and drawing.

 

Born in New Zealand, Stewart Haugh occupies an outsider’s sense of distance when examining the inherent assumptions held within everyday life. Stewart Haugh has sought to establish a connection to place and time as an underpinning in her art’s practice, employing the art of walking across the land as a form of grounding herself within the landscape. This has been important to the artist, both within her practice and in her extensive overseas travels. Interrogating one’s connection to time and place through the examination of contemporary debates around climate issues could also be seen as an over-arching area of interest for the artist.

 

Stewart Haugh uses a wide range of mediums and techniques to create works around identity, landscape, her body, and the absurd nature of contemporary life. The examination of time and place through various forms of movement have become central aspects of her art. Translating this movement into works that document the macro shifts in landforms over time and the geotechnical changes that occur over vast timeframes which have generated new conceptual focus within her recent works. The micro is explored through the artist’s body and her art.

 

Recent works have explored space, time, and place through the lens of climate change, extinction, with explorations of the interconnections with Earth’s geological and human histories. Stewart Haugh has recently developed the ‘Earth-Self’ concept and manifesto to explore the spiritual connection of humans with the Earth.

 

Stewart Haugh is also committed to the full recognition of First Nation’s rights and an honouring of their unbroken connection to this land that was never ceded.

 

Leanne Stewart Haugh holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts, along with a teaching qualification. She is currently enrolled in the Masters of Visual Arts at Griffith University (QCA campus). The artist has exhibited her works in group and solo shows.

 

Stewart Haugh’s works are held within private Australian and International collections.

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The artist welcomes enquiries and commissioned art projects.

 

Website: https://lhaugh.wixsite.com/lstewarthaugh

 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artbrainnexus/

 

Email: leannestewarthaugh@gmail.com