Leanne Bock (also known as Le Riquiqui) is a visual artist who exhibits and undertakes residencies locally and internationally, with a parallel career in design/illustration since 2002.

My artistic practice playfully explores the intersection of overlapping realities: personal and collective, conscious and unconscious, abstract and concrete, constructed and natural.

Drawing on research from holistic philosophies, Jungian psychology, embodied cognition and cultural criticism, and through daily writing and practices, I work with everyday objects and makeshift materials to create experimental visual languages. Flirting with the absurd, open narratives are composed, where the familiar becomes strange and the banal acquires a poetic dimension, inviting contemplation on the malleability, fragmentation and interconnection of the contemporary realities we inhabit.

My work spans drawing, video, projection, collage, sculptural assemblage and installation, often comprising ephemeral materials or what’s on hand contextually: translations of a nomadic life, shifting internal states and evolving personal mythologies.

I was born in the remote, subtropical town of Theodore, Queensland, and have since lived and worked throughout Australia, the UK, France and Latin America, maintaining fluency in Spanish as part of everyday life and art-making. Currently based in Naarm/Melbourne, I hold a Master of Contemporary Art (Victorian College of the Arts, 2021) and work from my home studio in Pascoe Vale.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 La Casa Móvil, Algodonales, Andalucía, Spain
2023 Le Lendemain, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2022 Proyecto ‘Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 The Last Act (YOHO Collective), Schoolhouse Studios, Collingwood, 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

2024 La Casa Móvil (1 week), Algodonales, Andalucía, Spain
2023 Le Lendemain (1 month), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Proyecto ‘Ace (1 month), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018 Linocut Residency, Castelo Studio, A Coruña, Spain


EDUCATION

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

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

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


LANGUAGES

Spanish (fluent)
French (intermediate)


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