Lesley Meaney

  • Drawing
  • Mixed Media
  • Painting
  • Upcycling

I love my new purpose-built studio and my studio swing. My recent body of predominately small works reveals a passion for lingering and loitering around trees. For a more insightful visit, booking a time on my ‘Appointment Only’ days is recommended.

Studio Details

Cherring Cot
85 Sheoak Drive
Yallingup

Opening Hours

  • Sat 7 Sept10am - 4pm
  • Sun 8 Sept10am - 4pm
  • Mon 9 SeptBy appointment
  • Tue 10 SeptClosed
  • Wed 11 SeptBy appointment
  • Thu 12 SeptClosed
  • Fri 13 Sept10am - 4pm
  • Sat 14 Sept12pm - 6pm
  • Sun 15 Sept10am - 4pm
  • Mon 16 SeptBy appointment
  • Tue 17 SeptClosed
  • Wed 18 SeptBy appointment
  • Thu 19 SeptClosed
  • Fri 20 Sept12pm - 6pm
  • Sat 21 Sept10am - 4pm
  • Sun 22 Sept10am - 4pm

Entrance to the studio site is from Sheoak Drive, 850 metres North from the intersection of Sheoak and Marrinup Drives.

  • Parking suitable for cars

Shortly after receiving 5 years full-time training in London and Liverpool in the 1960s, Lesley arrived in Australia in 1969 as a young artist and art teacher. Her practice today is predominately driven by a deep appreciation and respect for the Australian landscape. This was evident in her solo exhibition ‘Becoming Australian’ at the Holmes a Court Gallery at Vasse Felix in 2020. Exhibition curator Dr Laetitia Wilson writes: “This exhibition offers a window into the exquisite art practice of Western Australian artist Lesley Meaney whose approach to capturing the Australian landscape is dynamic, vibrant, and distinctively original. This exhibition is comprised of paintings, objects and stitched works that taken together make for a sensorial experience of fiery sunburnt colours, deep earthy tones, and slivers of green. The works evoke a sense of being in and belonging to a place, as a sustained, meditative, experimental and unique response to the Australian landscape.” ‘Becoming Australian – an artist’s journey’, launched at her 50-year survey exhibition reveals her evolution as an artist. This book also confirms her vast range of skills, her virtuosity and versatility, both in technique and image-making, with a constantly shifting focus between abstract and representational elements, to create both 2D and 3D works.
You won’t find Lesley on Facebook, Instagram or Tik Tok – but willing to share in the privacy of her new purpose-built bush studio – big enough for a swing! While she often states “I cannot predict what I will be creating in a decade, next year or even next week. Past works are merely prologue – like a line in a poem or cadence in music”. Her current works reveal a closer look at eucalyptus fragments. Their kaleidoscopic visual feasts, transmuted by the forces of drought, a burning sun, a burnishing wind, and linear journeys etched into the trunks by insects are hard to ignore; especially when these fragments can be within strides of our front doors. Lesley adds “Becoming an Australian from within has been a slow process; my immersion into the landscape has been a partner in that journey. I feel that I have now taken root, like one of the Eucalypts – trees, which, I like to think, represent the spirit and souls of our sunburnt country” For more listen to https://matttinney.com.au/good-chat-podcast/lesley-meaney Represented by Studio Gallery, Marrinup Drive, Yallingup.


Events

Exhibition Preview

An opportunity to preview a unique exhibition by this established award- winning practitioner prior to this year’s MRROS event. Lesley Meaney’s current body of work is triggered by the unending visual feasts of peeling bark – predominately the trunk’s fleshy vulnerability as a metaphor for growth, exposure and susceptibility. As numbers are limited, an RSVP to lesley@lesleymeaney.com.au is essential.

05 September 2024

04:00 pm - 07:00 pm