Leanne Bock (aka Le Riquiqui) is a visual artist exhibiting and undertaking residencies locally and internationally, alongside a parallel career in design and illustration since 2002. Her practice spans drawing, collage, sculptural assemblage, video and installation.

Her work playfully explores the intersection of personal and collective experience, conscious and unconscious processes, and constructed and natural systems. Using everyday objects and contextually available materials, she creates provisional structures and visual languages that invite reflection on how meaning, memory and perception are assembled.

Bock draws on holistic philosophies, Jungian psychology, embodied cognition and cultural criticism, informed by daily writing in Spanish and reflective practices. Through strategies of observation, open composition and subtle humour, the familiar is rendered strange and the banal acquires a poetic charge.

Born in Theodore, Queensland, Bock has lived and worked throughout Australia, the UK, France and Latin America, maintaining fluent Spanish as part of her everyday life and art-making. She is currently based in Naarm/Melbourne, holds a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (2021), and works from her home studio in Pascoe Vale.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 How Cute is Cute? Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne
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.