Sam Leach

Sam Leach

Born: 1973, Adelaide, SA

2005

Master of Arts (Fine Arts) by research RMIT University

2004

Honours Fine Art (Painting) at RMIT University 

1993

Bachelor of Economics, Adelaide University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

The Next Billion Years, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2009

The Margin, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2009

Native Dualism, Peter Walker Fine Art, Adelaide, SA

2008

Holotypes, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2008

Negentrophies, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW

2007

Unnatural Selection, Peter Walker Fine Art, Adelaide, SA

2007

The Spoils, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne

2006

Familie Kapitaal, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney

2005

The Lift, Spacement, Melbourne

2005

The Longed for Departure, Bus Gallery, Melbourne 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC

2009

Group Exhibition, Bedfordbury Gallery, Covent Garden, London U.K. 

2009

Surveying The Field, Moreland City Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2009

Mute Relics and Bedevilled Creatures – Constructing an Antipodean Curio Cabinet, Moreland City Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2009

SSFA09, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney NSW

2008

Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, QLD

2008

The Year of the Bird, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW

2008

Heat: Art and Climate Change, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2008

Neo Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD

2008

Melbourne Art Fair, VIC

2008

Intersection and Union, Melbourne Art Fair Preview, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney,NSW

2008

Archibald Prize, AGNSW, Sydney, NSW

2008

Bal Tashchit: Tho Shat Not Destroy – The Environment in Biblical and Rabbinic Sources, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, VIC

2008

SSFA08, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, NSW

2007

Momento Mori, Blkmrkt, Brisbane, QLD

2007

Sincerity of Detail, Wardlow Studios, Melbourne

2007

Metro 5 Finalists, Touring Exhibition

2007

Archibald Touring Exhibition

2006

Metro 5 Finalists Show, Metro 5, Melbourne

2006

Melbourne Reign, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney

2004

RMIT Honours Graduate Show, Area Contemporary Art Space

2004

8, RMIT Faculty Gallery, Melbourne

2004

Melbourne Commonwealth Games Village 

2003

Thread, RMIT Graduate Show, Melbourne

AWARDS AND PRIZES

2010

Archibald, winner

2010

Wynne Prize, winner

2009

University of Queensland Self Portrait Prize, finalist

2009

Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Award, finalist

2009

Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, finalist 2009 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, finalist

2009

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, finalist

2008

Stan and Maureen Duke Award, finalist

2008

Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, commendation

2008

Fleurieu Biennale, Art of Food and Wine and Water Prize, winner

2008

ABN Amro Emerging Artists Award, Finalist

2008

Archibald, finalist

2007

Siemens Fine Art Award, winner

2007

Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, winner

2007

Stan and Maureen Duke Award, finalist

2007

Archibald Finalist

2006

Geelong Gallery Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Prize

2006

Judges Prize Metro5

2005

Short listed for Siemens Art Prize

2004

Short listed for Siemens Art Prize

COLLECTIONS

University of Queensland

Monash University

Gold Coast City Art Gallery

Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

Geelong Art Gallery

Artbank

Private Collections in Australia, Italy and US

CURATORIAL

2009 Extropians, Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

2008 The Resurrectionists, Block Projects Melbourne

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Christopher, Lissa. ‘Open Gallery: The Next Billion Years’ Sydney Morning Herald, 15 – 16 August 2009
‘On Sam Leach @ Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art’ Artkritique 2 August 2009
ABC TV, Sunday Arts, 16 August 2009
Davies, Kerrie. ‘Sam Leach – Time and Space’ Artworld Issue 9 June/July 2009 pp 102 -105 
Miller, Carrie, ‘The Primacy of Progress’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 48 April – June 2009, pp 114 - 121
Clarke, Suzanna. 'Beautiful Obsession' The Courier Mail 27 -28 December 2008
'100 Most Influential Melburnians' The Age Melbourne Magazine, 12 December 2008
Harris, Cerentha. ‘Shining Stars’, Belle, issue April/ May 09, p. 90-92
Miller, Carrie. ‘Join the Queue’, Art Collector, Issue 45, p 96 – 98
Crawford, Ashley. ‘Sam Leach: Ghost in the Machine’, Art Monthly Australia, #211 July 2008 pp42 – 44
Flanagan, Martin. ‘Lessons from the Old Testament’, The Age, 26 April 2008
Cooke, R. ‘Sam Leach: Negentrophies’, Time out Sydney April 2-8 2008
McDonald, John. ‘There’s Magic in These Spectacular Works’, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 29 – 30, 2008
Strickland, K. ‘Not Many Well-suited to This Year’s Archibald’, The Australian Financial Review, February 29, 2008
Smee, S. ‘Put on a Happy Face’, The Australian, February 29, 2008
Higson, R. ‘Finn’s the Pick of the Crowded Packing Room’, The Australian, February 29, 2008
Pearce, A. ‘A Packer’s Eye on the Prize,Sydney Morning Herald, February 29, 2008
Schwartzkoff, L. ‘Smart Money on the Finn Review’, Sydney Morning Herald, February 29, 2008
Sunday Arts, ABC TV, March 2008
Strickland, K. 'Animal Focus is Dead Right', The Australian Financial Review, November 2007
McDonald, J. ' A Palette of Local Colour' Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum, November 2007
'Introducing Sam Leach', Adelaide Advertiser, November 2007 Kylie, Annemarie. ‘Paint it Black’, Vouge LivingSeptember 2007
Crawford, Ashley. ‘Freeing the Corpse from the Corporate’, The Age, June 2007
Ellis, Peter. ‘The Spoils’, Catalogue Essay, June 2007
Lloyd, Tony. ‘The Spoils’, Artinfo.com.au, June 2007
Makin, Jeff. ‘High Five for Artists’, Herald Sun, February 2007
Crawford, Ashley. ‘50 Most Collectable Artists’, Art Collector, January 2007
Barclay, Alison. ‘Hang them High’, Herald Sun, December 2007
Crawford, Ashley. ‘Melbourne Reign’, Catalogue Essay, September 2006
Makin, Jeff. ‘Art of Death Takes Flight’, Herald Sun, February 2006