About – LEISL

A spontaneous, energetic and intuitive painter, Leisl is interested in (and inspired by) the personality, character, virtues and story of people and places as much as their beauty. Her work is a compulsion to capture and magnify what she sees as the essence of a subject.

Image: Cloé Veryard (ASV Photographics)

Publications

A Painted Landscape (Thames & Hudson 2018) by Amber Creswell-Bell features fifty Australian landscape painters.

ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS

October 2023: Finalist – Paddington Art Prize
October 2020: Finalist – Paddington Art Prize
October 2019: Finalist – Queensland Regional Art Awards
June 2019: Finalist – Lethbridge 20000 (Group 1)
August 2018: Rugby Farms Acquisitive Award, Facets of Fairholme Art Exhibition
June 2018: Finalist – Hadleys Art Prize
February 2018: Finalist – Morris Art Prize
September 2017: Finalist – Clayton Utz Art Award
September 2017: Finalist – Tattersalls Club Landscape Art Prize
August 2017: Finalist – Chippendale World Art Residency
May 2017: Finalist – Lethbridge 10 1000 (Section 2 – online)
March 2017: Finalist – Moreton Bay Art Award 2017
October 2016: Finalist – Rio Tinto Martin Hansen Memorial Art Awards
September 2016: Finalist – Paddington Art Prize
June 2016: Finalist – Waverley Art Prize
May 2016: Finalist – Pro Hart Outback Art Prize
May 2016: Finalist – Lethbridge 10 000
May 2016: Finalist – Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award
April 2016: Champion Picture – RAS Toowoomba Show 2016
April 2016 – Finalist: Moreton Bay Art Award 2016
December 2015 – Finalist: Contemporary Art Awards
October 2015 – Finalist: Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards
1989 – Finalist – Suncorp Art Awards
1989 – Open Champion Picture – Toowoomba Royal Show
1988 – Junior Champion Picture – Toowoomba Royal Show

Press

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August 2019
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October 2018
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September 2016
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2024
Joint Exhibitions
Tall Tales, Latrobe Artspace, Paddington, Q. With Naomi White & David Usher.

2023
Selected Group Exhibitions
Paddington Art Prize, Cooee Art Leven Gallery, Redfern, Sydney

Joint Exhibitions
En Plein Air, ArtNuvo Gallery, Buderim, Q

2022
Selected Group Exhibitions
Mehi After the Flood, BAMM Gallery, Moree, NSW

Selected Bibliography
Bellef, Jessica, ‘Grand Revival’, Home Beautiful Magazine, p96
Robba, Leo, ‘Mehi After the Flood – The Painted River Project’, p74

2021
Solo Exhibitions
Camellia & Co, Wendland Artspace, Toowoomba, Q

Joint Exhibitions
The Places We Go, Latrobe Artspace, Paddington, Q. With Naomi White & David Usher.

2020
Solo Exhibitions
Mt Wilson Residency Exhibition, Rex-Livingston Gallery, Katoomba

Selected Group Exhibitions
Euonia, ArtNuvo Gallery, Buderim, Q
Paddington Art Prize, Defiance Gallery, Paddington, Sydney

Joint Exhibitions
What if the Sky Doesn’t Fall on Us?, Latrobe Artspace, Paddington, Q. With Naomi White & David Usher.

Selected Bibliography
Pascoe, Judy, ‘Holding Court’, Belle Magazine, p148

2019
Solo Exhibitions
Momentary, Michael Reid StudioDirect, Michael Reid – Amber Creswell-Bell Annexe, Sydney
Daydreaming, Wild Canary Gallery, Brisbane

Selected Group Exhibitions
Points of View, Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach
Aurum, Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane
Lethbridge 20,000, Lethbridge Gallery Paddington, Brisbane
StudioDirect, Michael Reid Gallery, Murrurundi

Selected Bibliography
Wilson, Elizabeth, ‘Southern Belle’, Australian House & Garden Magazine, p17, 91

Residencies
November 2019, Artist in Residence scholarship, The Old School Mount Wilson, NSW

2018
Solo Exhibitions
Spring, Wendland Fine Foods, Toowoomba
Ephemeral, Wendland Fine Foods, Toowoomba
Terrain (curated by Amber Creswell-Bell), Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions
‘A Painted Landscape’ Exhibition, Special Group Studios, Surry Hills
Island Hopping Landscapes, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane
Hadleys Art Prize, Hadleys Orient Hotel, Hobart
Facets of Fairholme, Fairholme College, Toowoomba
Off the Shelf & Beyond, The Moree Gallery, Moree
Bush to Bay (Leisl Mott & Michael Braden), Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney

Selected Bibliography
‘Different Strokes’, Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend Magazine, p48-49
Bell, Creswell, A. A Painted Landscape, Across Australia from Bush to Coast Thames & Hudson, p76-79
Hadleys Art Prize Exhibition Catalogue, Hadleys Orient Hotel p7, p36

2017
Solo Exhibitions
Near & Far, Wild Canary Gallery, Brisbane
Flourish, Wendland Fine Foods, Toowoomba
Indelible, Wendland Fine Foods, Toowoomba
Recent Landscapes, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions
Clayton Utz Art Prize, Clayton Utz Offices, Brisbane
Facets of Fairholme, Fairholme College, Toowoomba
Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane
Places & Faces of Brisbane, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane
Downlands Art Exhibition, Downlands College, Toowoomba
Rotary Art Spectacular, Central Plaza One, Brisbane
Aspects Art Exhibition, Goondoowindi

2016
Solo Exhibitions
Bloom!, Wendland Fine Foods, Toowoomba
Landscapes I Love, Percolator Gallery, Brisbane

Selected Group Exhibitions
Rio Tinto Martin Hansen Memorial Art Award Exhibition, Gladstone Regional Gallery & Museum, Gladstone
Paddington Art Prize, Marie Antico Gallery, Sydney
Downlands Art Exhibition (feature artist), Downlands College, Toowoomba
Outback to Ocean Landscape, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane
Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Toowoomba
Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Art School, Sydney
Pro Hart Outback Art Prize Exhibition, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill
Lethbridge 10 000, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
Moreton Bay Art Award, Moreton Bay Gallery, Brisbane

Selected Bibliography
Kieseker, Janet, ‘Artistic Calling’, Highlife Magazine, Spring, p54-55

Prizes & Awards

‘Long Driveway’ (2023)
Finalist: Paddington Art Prize 2023

‘Toward the Hideout’ (2020)
Finalist: Paddington Art Prize 2020

‘Traversed’ (2018)
Finalist: Queensland Regional Art Awards 2019

‘In for the Night’ (2019)
Finalist: Lethbridge 20000 (Group 1) 2019

‘Winter in the Japanese Gardens’ (2018)
Winner: Rugby Farms Acquisitive Award, Facets of Fairholme 2018

‘Wait a Moment’ (2018)
Finalist: Hadleys Art Prize 2018

‘A Farm by the Sea’ (2017)
Finalist: Morris Art Prize 2018

‘Johnston Creek’ (2017)
Finalist: Clayton Utz Art Prize 2017

‘Late Afternoon – Johnston Creek’ (2017)
Finalist: Tattersalls Club Landscape Art Prize 2017

‘Another Bend in the Road’ (2017)
Finalist: Chippendale World Art Residency 2017

‘Leaving Hill End’ (2017)
Finalist: Moreton Bay Region Art Awards 2017

‘Driving to Denman’ (2016)
Finalist: Rio Tinto Martin Hansen Memorial Art Prize 2016

‘South Creek’ (2016)
Finalist: Paddington Art Prize 2016

‘Old Red Fence’ (2016)
Finalist: Waverley Art Prize 2016

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‘West MacDonnell Range’ (2016)
Finalist: Pro Hart Outback Art Award 2016

‘The Hawkesbury’ (2016)
Finalist: Lethbridge 10000 2016

‘Another Autumn’ (2016)
Finalist: Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award 2016

‘Gippsland’ (2015)
Finalist: Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award 2016

‘Gippsland II’ (2015)
Finalist: Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award 2016

‘Looking to the East’ (2015)
Finalist: Contemporary Art Awards 2015
Champion Picture RAS Toowoomba Show 2016

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‘Scarborough Beach’ (2016)
Finalist: Moreton Bay Art Award 2016

‘Afternoon’ (2015)
Finalist: Rio Tinto Martin Hansen Award 2015

‘Sandgate Pier’ (1989)
Finalist: Suncorp Art Awards 1989

‘Untitled Landscape’ (1989)
Champion Picture: RAS Toowoomba Show 1989

Finalist: Paddington Art Prize 2023 | Finalist: Paddington Art Prize 2020 | Finalist: Queensland Regional Art Awards 2019 | Finalist: Lethbridge 20000 2019 | Finalist: Hadleys Art Prize 2018| Finalist: Morris Art Prize 2018 | Finalist: Clayton Utz Art Award 2017 | Finalist: Tattersalls Club Landscape Art Prize 2017 | Finalist: Moreton Bay Region Art Awards 2017 | Finalist: Rio Tinto Martin Hansen Memorial Art Awards 2016 | Finalist: Paddington Art Prize 2016 | Finalist: Waverley Art Prize 2016 | Finalist: Pro Hart Outback Art Prize 2016 | Finalist: Lethbridge 10,000 2016 | Finalist: Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award 2016 | Winner: Champion Picture – RAS Toowoomba Fine Art 2016 | Finalist: Moreton Bay Art Award 2016 | Finalist: Contemporary Art Awards 2015 | Finalist: Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards 2015 | Finalist: Suncorp Art Award 1989 | Winner: Open Champion Picture – RAS Toowoomba Fine Art 1989 | Winner: Junior Champion Picture – RAS Toowoomba Fine Art 1988

A spontaneous, energetic and intuitive painter, Leisl is interested in (and inspired by) the personality, character, virtues and story of people and places as much as their beauty. Her work is a compulsion to capture and magnify what she sees as the essence of a subject.

Publications

ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS

Press

Prizes & Awards

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