ABOUT
Lesley Munro is an Australian artist based in Fremantle, Western Australia. Her practice of over 40 years has manifested in many different forms, from an early modernist emphasis on painting and printmaking to more recent investigations into experimental processes and the nature of image making, particularly in response to the urban-industrial and night landscape. Finding beauty and expressive potential in ordinary and everyday objects has lead her current practice to utilize a broad range of traditional and contemporary media, including discarded or sourced industrial and building remnants. These are often incorporated into intuited or observed images and objects, many of which result in abstract forms that reflect the subjective and evolutionary nature of her work, together with the sometimes unexpected outcomes of decisions that may be orderly or frenetic, disciplined, or wilful. Some are seen as metaphors for human experience and vulnerability, as expressions of conversation and memory, loss, solace or redemption.
Lesley is a member of the West Australian artist's association Art Collective WA.
| 2004 | BA (Art)1st class Honours, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia |
| 1997 | Drawing Marathon (NY Studio School) Central School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia |
| 1974 - 76 | Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) WAIT (now Curtin University of Technology), Perth, WA |
| Art Angels Church Gallery Northbridge WA |
| Artbank Australia |
| Berndt Collection Perth WA |
| City of Melville WA |
| City of Fremantle WA |
| The Horn Collection WA |
| Kalgoorlie College WA |
| National Securities Commission |
| Rio Tinto |
| Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Nedlands WA |
| Town of Vincent |
| University of WA |
| WA School of Art and Design CIT Perth WA |
| York Shire Council |
| Pringle Knitwear Co UK |
| Geraldton Regional Art Gallery WA |
| Private Collections in Australia and overseas |
| 2013 | Cossack Art Awards Cossack WA |
| 2012 | City of Wanneroo Art Prize Painting Prize |
| 2009 | City of Albany Art Awards, Albany WA Finalist |
| 2005 | Arts WA, Department of Culture and the Arts, Cultural Development Grant |
| 2008 | Fleurieu Biennale Art Awards South Australia (Finalist 2 categories) |
| 2005 | Vincent Prize, Town of Vincent, Perth, Western Australia |
| 2002 | Minnawarra Art Festival Award, Armadale, Western Australia |
| 1999 | York Art Awards Overall Award for Excellence- Drawing |
| 1999 | York Art Awards Prize for Painting |
| 2015 | DisLocation, Work’s Curious Sensing, ArtCollective WA (with Chris Hopewell) |
| 2011 | Ply-Shape-Paint Perth Galleries Western Australia |
| 2007 | Night’s Shift…haloed light just standing there…GorepaniART Gallery Albany WA |
| 2006 | Night’s Provocation Perth Galleries |
| 2003, 2000 | Recent Paintings Perth Galleries, Perth, Western Australia |
| 1999 | Works from the Studio Kidogo Arthouse Fremantle |
| 1995 | Landscapes and Interiors The Old Station House Mt Barker |
| 1993 | Recent Work Perth Galleries WA |
| 1990 | Paintings and Drawings Fremantle Arts Centre |
| 1988 | Panoramas Kalgoorlie College WA |
| 2016 | STEAL Group exhibition Linton and Kay Galleries Perth curated by Dr Anna Sabadini |
| 2015 | Scene Nyisztor Studio Perth |
| 2015 | PCWK (Pure Contemplation Without Knowledge) Nyisztor Studio Perth |
| 2015 | PAAAF (Painting as an Artfform)..AFTER Mundaring Arts Centre WA curated by Dr Anna Sabadini |
| 2015 | City of Albany Art Prize finalist |
| 2015 | artCollectiveWA down South Holmes a Court Gallery, Vasse Felix Estate WA |
| 2014 | Works on Paper artCollectiveWA Subiaco WA |
| 2013 | Cossack Art Awards WA |
| 2012 | York Photographic Awards WA |
| 2012 | Mid West Art Prize Geraldton WA |
| 2011 | The Blake Prize (Director’s Cut) Online Exhibition |
| 2011 | The City of Joondalup Invitation Art Awards WA |
| 2011 | The Window and the Door Perth Galleries WA |
| 2011 | Mid West Art Prize Geraldton WA |
| 2010 | Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2010 Biennial Art Awards SCGH Nedlands WA |
| 2010 | Subterranea Mundaring Arts Centre |
| 2009 | City of Albany Art Prize finalist |
| 2008 | Fleurieu Biennale Art Awards South Australia finalist 2 categories |
| 2008 | Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 2008 Biennial Art Awards Central TAFE Art Gallery WA |
| 2008 | Closet Circus -Works from the The Horn Collection City of Bunbury Art Gallery WA |
| 2006 | Four West Australian Contemporary Artists, Andhara Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 2006 | De-Function Moore’s Building, Fremantle |
| 2005 | Town of Vincent Art Awards Western Australia |
| 2004 | Degree Show (Hons) Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia |
| 2004 | Melbourne Art Fair, Victoria |
| 2010 - 2012 | Percent for art Scheme Mandurah Grouped Housing, Rockford Street and Day Road, Mandurah, for the Department of Housing |
| 2015 | The West Australian Visual Arts Laetitia Wilson October 23rd 2015 Painting Down the Line Painting as an Artform - After: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/29912188/painting-down-the-line/ |
| 2015 | SCOOP magazine Spring issue cover photograph Nights Provocation |
| 2014 | Artsource website The Tidal Pulse: www.artsource.net.au/Magazine/Residency-Reflections/Lesley-Munro |
| 2006 | The West Australian Weekend Extra Visual Arts Ric Spencer Sat Dec 9th p13 A Sense of Presence |
| 2006 | Western Suburbs Weekly Dec 5th p27 Dark Inspiration |
| 2006 | Fremantle Herald Nov 11th p9 A Provocation of Night |
| 2006 | Night’s Provocation Dr David Bromfield, Catalogue essay |
| 2006 | De-function exhibition catalogue, curated by Thea Costantino and Anna Nazzari, with forward by Ann Shilo |
| 2005 | Night Scene Scoops Pool, The Perth Voice, Sat Sept 10, 2005, p 3 |
| 2004 | Research Poster and abstract: "Palimpsests: Transforming Communities", Eighth Annual Humanities Graduate Research Conference, Curtin University of Technology, Nov 2004 |
| 2003 | The West Australian Saturday Sept 6th 2003 Weekend Extra p13 "In the Picture" Robert Cook "Prizes and Surprises". |