Leanne Bock (aka Le Riquiqui) is a visual artist

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 2002–2006, 2017–2023.

Working with ordinary objects and themes of the everyday, I build democratic visual languages which playfully ask questions about mass culture and the absurdity of constructed reality. By exploring what familiar objects can reveal about broader collective social and psychological states, I’m interested in contemplating and connecting mundane details to the world at large (conflating micro and macro phenomena).


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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

2022 Exploration Residency (1 month), Proyecto ‘Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 Hometown Residency, Theodore, Queensland
2020 Quarantine Residency, Bedroom Studio, Northcote, 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)