Leanne Bock (aka Le Riquiqui) is a visual artist, designer and illustrator.

b. Queensland, Australia, lived in London 2006–2013, Central America and México 2010–2011 & 2022, France 2013–2014, regional Australia and Sydney 2014–2017, Melbourne / Naarm 2002–2006, 2017–current.

My practice involves working with ordinary objects and themes of the everyday as a way to connect individual and collective realities. By means of research, writing and embodied play,  I build democratic visual languages which embrace existential absurdity and playfully pose abstract questions around constructed realities and contemporary mass culture.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Le Lendemain, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2022 Proyecto ‘Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 VCA Grad Show, Melbourne
2021 The Last Act (YOHO Collective), Schoolhouse Studios, Collingwood, Melbourne
2019 GCVA, VCA Artspace, Melbourne
2017 An Exhibition of Emerging Australian Artists, Woolloongabba Substation, Brisbane


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Installation, PGB Artspace, Brunswick, Melbourne
2019 Stand Still, EBV, Brunswick East, Melbourne
2017 Le Riquiqui Prints, Something for Jess, Chippendale, Sydney
2017 Le Riquiqui Prints, Batch, Marrickville, Sydney


RESIDENCIES

2023 Le Lendemain (1 month), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Proyecto ‘Ace (1 month), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 Hometown Residency, Theodore, Queensland
2020 Quarantine Residency, Bedroom Studio, Melbourne
2018 Linocut Residency, Castelo Studio, A Coruña, Spain


EDUCATION

2021 Master of Contemporary Art
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
First Class Honours

2019 Graduate Certificate in Visual Art
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
First Class Honours

2001 Bachelor of Communication Design
James Cook University, Townsville
First Class Honours


LANGUAGES
Spanish (advanced)
French (intermediate)


Leanne acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung People of the Kulin Nation as sovereign custodians of the land she inhabits and extends respects to all First Nations people.