Leesa Gray-Pitt

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1 Paintings by Leesa Gray-Pitt for sale

Death Becomes Her by Leesa Gray-Pitt — Death Becomes Her
Paintings, *Oil paint, wood, modelling paste*, *2022*
Leesa Gray-Pitt
$250 USD

3 Sculpture by Leesa Gray-Pitt for sale

Batty Brain by Leesa Gray-Pitt — Batty Brain
Sculpture
Leesa Gray-Pitt
$80 USD

Beautiful Death I by Leesa Gray-Pitt — Beautiful Death I
Sculpture
Leesa Gray-Pitt
$250 USD

Bleed Like Me by Leesa Gray-Pitt — Bleed Like Me
Sculpture, *Resin, flowers, satin*, *6.5 x 6.5 x 3*, *2024*, *None this is an original piece!*
Leesa Gray-Pitt
$150 USD

1 artworks sold by Leesa Gray-Pitt

Leesa Gray-Pitt Biography

Australia, born 1965

Leesa is a figurative artist who writes when the grief is too overwhelming to paint and paints when she can’t find the words, pouring her emotions onto the canvas. Art has been her therapy and catharsis through the living nightmare of child loss, painting and writing her journey through trauma to find the Divine Feminine.

Drawing portraits since her teens, Leesa decided to follow her passion for art and fashion and use real faces as her canvas, winning Hair and Makeup Artist of the Year 2003. Having worked on many famous faces and in fashion, television and bridal, she started painting faces on canvas in 2016 to deal with the death of her beautiful daughter Star Dawn.

Some highlights of Leesa’s career are an artist residency at Chateau Orquaveaux, France, in 2019. Living at the chateau for four weeks with artists from around the world was a dream come true and an experience she will never forget. Leesa has also just returned from Quarantine - an artist mentorship program in Menorca, Spain. Chosen along with other high calibre artist from across the globe she accepted this challenge wholeheartedly, returning with a new found focus and drive.

Obtaining her Master of Fine Arts degree in 2021, Leesa pushed the boundaries of her practice exploring different techniques and mediums. Inspired by fashion, mythology, and the occult, Leesa purposely sources materials such as textiles, fashion magazines and photographs to explore how society measures gender, ideas of power and notions of beauty. Similarly, she uses text as a reminder of how the spoken word can propel change for future generations.

Leesa aims to empower the intersectional feminine identity by painting women who inspire, adorning them with gems, butterflies and flowers, symbolic of the fraught relationship women have to beauty, innocence, protection and patriarchy. “Importantly I use them as separate components that may stand on their own or to an idea of interconnectedness, overlapping identities and intersectionality. My objective being to arrange them to form a harmonious artwork that links all of these elements together.”

She is also on the board of RedWest Creative Co-op, which is extremely rewarding and provide many opportunities to learn skills that will help her career as an artist.

Leesa has participated in several group exhibitions, finally having her first solo show in 2021 at BlackCat Gallery. Leesa’s intention has always been to capture the likeness of her subjects - Painting faces, either on canvas or in the flesh, will always be a constant source of pleasure and her true passion.

Leesa Gray-Pitt exhibitions, studies, awards...

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2021 - Obtained Master of Fine Art Degree at RMIT Melbourne

2019 - I am an Artist at Arts Assist South Melbourne

2017 - Oils one on one with Caroline Esbenshade

2016 - Acrylics Workshop with Caroline Esbenshade

- Life Drawing Classes at Saltwater Community Centre

2014 - Diploma of Cosmetic Tattooing

2003 - Certificate II in Makeup Artistry

- Certificate in Dress Style Hair

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023 - Quarantine Menorca Spain Mentorship with Henrik Uldalen 17 - 23 April

2021 - Co-curate, organise and promote RedWest $50-$500 group exhibition

2020 - Curate, organise and promote RedWest Artist Aid Bushfire Relief Art Auction/Exhibition

2019 - Voted as Vice President for Red West Creative Cooperative

- Co-curate, organise and promote RedWest PrimoRed group exhibition

- Artist in Residence at Chateau Orquevaux France 2nd to 30th May

EXHIBITIONS

2023 - Show Us What You’ve Got Group Exhibition - The Corner Studio

2022 - HOME West Group Exhibition

2021 - RMIT Alumni Group Exhibition

2021 - RedWest PrimoRed 2 Group Exhibition 2nd - 23rd July at C & H Gallery, Melbourne

- Solo Exhibition ‘The Seven (not so) Deadly Sins’ at Black Cat Gallery 18th - 28th February

- RedWest Group Exhibition $50-$500 at Sunshine Art Space

2019 - NOW, WEST Group Exhibition 15th - 23rd November Longspace Gallery

- RedWest PrimoRed Group Exhibition 8th Nov - 7th Dec C&H Gallery

- All The Things That Remain Group Exhibition September NOIR Darkroom

2016 - Throw Up Your Art Exhibition- Colourbox Studios

COMMISSIONS

2017 - RED Watton St Werribee

- Wall Art for Cake Creations by Kate Cakeshop

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2023 - Industry Connections Program

2019 - Shortlisted in the Wyndham Art Prize

2018 - Denis Diderot (A-i-R) Grant Artist in Residence at Chateau Orquevaux France May 2019

- Community Pathways Scholarship Grant from Wyndham City Council

2003 - Hair and Makeup Artist of the Year

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

2021 - Star Weekly for first solo exhibition at BlackCat Gallery

2020 - Star Weekly for RedWest Artist Aid Bushfire Relief Art Auction/Exhibition

2019 - Star Weekly for primoRed group exhibition

2018 - Wyndham Star Weekly for Chateau Orquevaux

- Article and video in Our Voice - Mercy Health Newsletter

2017 - Artworks published on Galphia online gallery www.galphia.com

- Published interview and art in Not Random Art Magazine

- RED Redux installation art for Wyndham City “Heart of Armour.”

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

2019 - MAVA Collective

2018 - RedWest Creative Co-op

- NAVA (National Association for Visual Arts)

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1 Paintings by Leesa Gray-Pitt for sale

Death Becomes Her

3 Sculpture by Leesa Gray-Pitt for sale

Batty Brain

Beautiful Death I

Bleed Like Me

1 artworks sold by Leesa Gray-Pitt