Mr Leslie Eastman - Researcher Profile

Biography

A graduate of Melbourne University and RMIT, Leslie Eastman has held over twenty solo and collaborative exhibitions nationally, at venues such as ACCA, Linden and Experimenta, and internationally. He has been the recipient of grants from the Australian Film Commission, the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria. 

His installation works utilise a range of media including lenses and light, large scale mirrors, drawing and video to explore the deceptively simple fact of our presence in and perception of the world. 

Leslie has often worked in collaboration with both artists and writers as a way of questioning conventional assumptions about authorship as well as working in response to a situation or location as a way of extending and testing the role of art practice and its outcomes. In recent years he has worked with New York based artist Natasha Johns-Messenger on six projects, including XYZ-NYC held in New York in 2011. 

For the past two years Leslie was a key member of Light Projects, an experimental project space in Melbourne which held over thirty exhibitions by local and international artists addressing themes of psychoanalysis and perception. 

Leslie is a Senior Lecturer and Painting Programme Coordinator in the Department of Fine Art at Monash University. 

Qualifications

MASTERS BY RESEARCH

Institution: Unknown

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Other

Green, T., Eastman, L., Haylock, B., 2011, Still Gratuitous, Curation of solo exhibition: Fiona MacDonald, Light Projects, Melbourne, VIC.

Eastman, L., Green, T., 2010, Aerolineas Presents, Exhibition curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L., Green, T., 2010, Affirmations, Exhibition curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L., 2010, Contours of the Self, Exhibition curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L., Green, T., 2010, Islands of Swarm, Exhibition curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., Green, T.A., 2010, Jess Hood: Photographing Nature, Curation of solo show, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., 2010, Meridian, Light Projects, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic, 11 to 27 February 2010.

Eastman, L., 2010, Mons Garden, Exhibition curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., Green, T.A., 2010, Storm Gold and Julian Holcroft: Aerolineas Presents, Curation of sound research project, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L., Green, T., Palmer, S., 2010, Submarine, Exhibition curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., Green, T.A., 2010, Tegan Lewis: Light Sensitive, Exhibition curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L., 2010, The Waste of Breath, Exhibition curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L., 2010, i is another, Exhibition curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., Green, T.A., 2009, Ardi Gunawan with Nikos Pantazis: Influence(s), Curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., Green, T.A., 2009, Karaoke Theory by Andy Thomson, Curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., Green, T.A., 2009, On Difference and Indifference: Brad Haylock, Curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., Green, T.A., 2009, Thea Rechner and Devon Atkins: Near and Far, Curation, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., Johns-Messenger, N., 2008, Dark Light, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda, Vic, 18 April to 25 May 2008.

Eastman, L.H., 2008, Searching for my Father's House, The Carlton Hotel and Studios, The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne, Vic, 15 March to 5 April 2008.

Eastman, L.H., 2007, Cycle, Video, Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK.

Eastman, L.H., 2007, Itinerant Sighs, Victoria Park Gallery, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne, Vic, July 2007.

Eastman, L.H., 2006, Apart-ment, Solo Exhibition, Apartment (28 October - 19 November 2006).

Johns-Messenger, N., Eastman, L.H., 2006, Synoptic 06, Installation, solo Exhibition, MIR11 gallery.

Eastman, L.H., Johns-Messenger, N., 2005, Vanishing Point, Art Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 31/08/05 - 30/09/05.

Eastman, L.H., Johns-Messenger, N., 2004, Pointform, Conical Inc, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, 26 November 2004 - 12 December 2004.

Eastman, L.H., 2004, The Visible and the Invisible - Swoon Exhibition, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ACCA, Sturt Street Southbank Vic 3006, May 29 - July 25.

Coutts, M.F., Cooper, P.J., Dupree, G., Eastman, L.H., Grant, O.E., Kosloff, L., Miller-Coleman, L., McLeish, R., Tonkin, M.E., Trembath, A.G., Walch, M., Zeiss, M.A., 2003, Drawing 2003, Faculty Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 09/10/03 to 14/10/03.

Eastman, L.H., 2003, Eraserhead, Video, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, Vic.

Eastman, L.H., 2003, Projects One - Fidelity, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, VCA Gallery, Southbank Vic Australia, 19 June 2003 to 18 July 2003.

Eastman, L.H., 2002, Eraserhead: A Project by Leslie Eastman, RMIT Project Space, Carlton, Victoria, 27 August 2002 to 14 September 2002.

Kosloff, L., Eastman, L.H., 2002, Gating, Westspace Inc., Melbourne VIC Australia, 16 May 2002 to 8 June 2002.

Eastman, L.H., 2002, Several Provisional Contingencies not Necessarily Precluding a Permanent Eventuality of Reconciliatory Union, Penthouse & Pavement, Carlton, Victoria, 02 November 2002 to 16 November 2002.

Eastman, L.H., 2002, The site of drawing, RMIT Project Space and Penthouse & Pavement, RMIT Project Space and Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne, Vic, 27 August to 14 September and 2 November to 16 November.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

EXPLORING THE CREATIVE TRIUMVIRATE.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

When everything appears similiar, nothing really is..

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Bain-King, D.

Program of Study:

Moments of Possibility and Becoming: Aspects of the Subject within the Social Space of Participation and Installation . (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main), Palmer, D (Joint).

Student:

Davies, G.

Program of Study:

The Poetic and Transcendent Effects of the Abstract Field. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Student:

Dorall, D.

Program of Study:

The Inversion Theory: Viewing the anthropomorphic as a study for the miniature object. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Student:

Fairnie, H.

Program of Study:

The Determinate and Indeterminate fields of Monochrome Painting. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Student:

Gutteridge, A.

Program of Study:

Flat Out: Expanding the Field of Contemporary Hard Edge Abstraction. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Student:

Hanover, I.

Program of Study:

finders keepers....on the path to a Cabinet of Curiosity. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Student:

Holt, W.

Program of Study:

Objectificationality. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Joint-Co), Vale, M (Joint).

Student:

Lynch, J.

Program of Study:

Modernism's orphanage: social relations, group processes and transforming narratives. (Masters) 2010.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Student:

Ramholdt, A.

Program of Study:

Full: a studio investigation of nostalgia, love, horror and the void. (Masters) 2006.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Student:

Stark, A.

Program of Study:

Process and Intention: Between Western and Japanese Aesthetics. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Coutts, M (Main), Eastman, L (Joint).

Student:

Troski, N.

Program of Study:

Form into Time, Time into Form, through Light . (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main), Wollmering, D (Joint).

Student:

Tsoulis-Reay, K.

Program of Study:

Painting: The Environment of Memory. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Student:

Ward-Furmston, C.

Program of Study:

Exploring the space of the family archive. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).

Student:

Watson, C.

Program of Study:

Covert Operations: A Phenomenology of Food. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Eastman, L (Main).