about me

Recent Past Exhibitions & Events
2023
Artful disposition - Artists of the Round Yard Inc - Retford Park
Create - Flight - The Crossing Theatre, Narrabri
Autumn Resonance - Artists of the Round Yard Inc - Retford Park
2022
‘inspiration to creation’ Artists of the Round Yard Group Exhibition, Retford Park, Bowral and Southern Highlands Art Trail
Emerge - Artists of the Round Yard Inc - Retford Park
Vacation Nation - Art Aviso Online
Eight Hundred Metres (and Up) - Everglades Gallery Leura
2021
x pollination - Artists of the Round Yard - Retford Park
Still Life - The Space Gallery, The Cannery, Rosebery
Retford Park - Artists of the Round Yard Inc
Caravan - Tacit Galleries, Collingwood
Door to Door - Online Exhibition - No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
Create - Home - The Crossing Theatre, Narrabri
2020
Emergence - Artists of the Round Yard Inc @ Sturt Gallery, Mittagong
PL❤NTS exhibition - Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
Southern Highlands Arts Gallery Trail - Artists of the Round Yard @ Retford Park
2019
The Art of Collecting exhibition - Artists of the Round Yard Inc. Retford Park, Bowral
Scarborough Art Show, Scarborough Public School
Camden Art Prize exhibition, Camden
Old Favourites exhibition - Artists of the Round Yard Inc.
Retford Park, Bowral
2018
The Art of Giving exhibition
Artists of the Round Yard Inc. Retford Park, Bowral
Scarborough Art Show, Scarborough Public School
BDCU Children's Foundation Long Lunch Art exhibition
Centennial Vineyards, Bowral
Leanne Booth Solo Exhibition of Works
@ The Mill Cafe Artspace, Bowral
BDAS Members Exhibition, Bowral
Leanne’s painting style can be described as interpretive and contemporary, and her works range from contemporary realism through to abstract. She works in mixed media., using an array of art materials including inks, acrylic paints, oil sticks, charcoal and graphite.
Leanne has successfully exhibited in galleries and group exhibitions throughout the Southern Highlands, Blue Mountains, South Coast and Sydney Region.
She is a member of the Artists of the Round Yard, a group of artists who exhibit at The National Trust Property Retford Park, which was home to the late James Fairfax.
Her first solo show was held in 2016 at 10 Thousand Paces Gallery. She has appeared as a guest artist at the BDCU Children’s Foundation Long Lunch in 2017 & 2018 and the Plants Exhibition of Foundation & Friends of Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney in 2020.
The beautiful countryside and lifestyle of the Southern Highlands, South Coast of New South Wales, Snowy & Blue Mountains, Italy and New Zealand have inspired many works, which are featured in many private collections throughout Australia and overseas.
Sustainability
Leanne has a special interest in climate change, sustainable practice in agriculture as the Earth's temperature warms, work/life balance, and making a personal difference by creating conversation around these topics within her artistic practices. She focuses on the micro detail to help understand what is really happening in the larger story.
"I am very conscious that the health of our planet has been negatively impacted by the burning of fossil fuels from the time of the industrial revolution, but more particularly within the span of my own lifetime. While deforestation, industrial agriculture, and many other manipulations to our environment have made lifestyle and food availability easier for humans right now, we have begun to see rapid changes to our climate - fire, flood and extreme weather events. The Earth needs to rebalance and we are starting to see the cost. We need to act now to make changes before it is too late for life on Earth as we know it. Every small or large positive action for change is a step in the right direction."
Awards
2019
Camden Art Prize - Very Highly Commended for Work on Paper
"Kite Sailing in Gisborne"
2018
BDCU Children's Foundation Long Lunch Art Prize Awarded Highly Commended for "Centennial Rain" Judge: Cherry Hood
2012
Fettlers Heritage Art Prize Awarded People's Choice
2009
Fettlers Heritage Art Prize Awarded First Prize for
"Robertson - A Creek Somewhere" Judge: Freya Jobbins

Bush Lanterns
Plants Exhibition
Royal Botanic Gardens
Sydney
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