ARTIST CV
Leah Pirone (LAH)
EDUCATION ///
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Curtin University, 2026
Fine Art and Visual Culture, Bachelors Degree (High Distinction), Curtin University, 2023
Cultural Mediation Intensive, UQ Art Museum Queensland, 2024
Environmental Art and Design, Midland TAFE, 2000
Advanced Certificate Art and Design, Carine TAFE, 1999
RESIDENCE ///
Perth, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS ///
Nyisztor Studio, Fremantle, 2025
Inglewood Arts Hub, Inglewood, 2025
Kent Street Art Gallery, Victoria Park, 2017
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS ///
Finalist, City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award, City of South Perth, 2025
Finalist, City of Bayswater Art Awards, 2025
Finalist, Ellenbrook Art Awards, 2025
Finalist, Art Awards, City of Bayswater, 2024
Venice Biennale, Australian Pavilion Attendant, Creative Australia, 2024
Winner, Emerging Artist Painting Award, City of South Perth, 2023
Vice Chancellors Award, Curtin University, 2023
Art For Epilepsy – Community News Interview
Shutterstock Portfolio
GROUP EXHIBITION ///
Army Art, 2019
Mia Cafe, Inglewood, 2007
TEACHING ///
Teaching Artist, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2022 – 2026
Private Workshops, 2017 – 2023
WRITING ///
Visual Culture essays
NFP RECIPIENTS ///
Headspace
Ruah Womens Refuge
Zonta House
Indigo Junction
Carbon Neutral
WWF
Rainforest 4 Foundation
Carbon Reduction Institute
Take 3
Leah Pirone (LAH) is a writer and an emerging, multidisciplinary artist born in Perth, Western Australia. After completing a double major in Fine Art and Visual Culture at Curtin University with High Distinctions in both, she is continuing her work exploring themes of imbalances of power, particularly through a gendered lens. She has worked at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in the Learning and Creativity Research department contributing to the investigation of how audiences engage and contribute to participatory exhibitions through critical discourse, meaningful engagement, material practices, and aesthetic outcomes. In 2026 Leah will be entering academia again toward Masters and a PhD.
At 19 she had a tonic clonic epileptic seizure that almost took her life and although post tremors are with her most days she continues to hand draw, illustrate & paint. Creating calms the wobble! LAH works from her studio and uses music, Jungian depth psychology and nature as her muse.