LESLEY GIOVANELLI
Contact lgiovanelli@hotmail.com
Art Education
2000-02 Master of Visual Arts, Painting Studio -Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
1989-90 Grad Dip. Visual Arts, Sculpture Studio, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW
1982-4 BA (Visual Arts), Sculpture Studio, Sydney College of the Arts

Solo Exhibition
2017 Coming Going, Aps, Sydney
2015 Continental Drift, Aps Sydney
2014 Cottage Industry, an installation using Asian textiles in Aps, Sydney
2011 Monochrome, an installation of 17 objects in Articulate project space Sydney, mixed media.
2011 Paradise Pavilion in a Sculpture Garden, polystyrene, polyester wadding wool, timber acrylic dye and paint, Articulate project Space (Aps)
2010 Modern Grotto, polystyrene, polyester wadding, acrylic paint, Index, Sydney
2007 Mexica Rosa, wool, paint, styrene site specific installation, factory 49, Sydney
2003 Delicate Gestures, wool and paint installation, 18th St Arts Centre, Los Angeles
2003 One Fine Day, mixed media Installation. Faro Cultural Centre, Mexico City
2002 Woven Space, mixed mediaopen studio, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
2002 Colourful Confusion, site specific installation, Degree Show, Sydney University
2001 Picnic, fabric, timber. site specific installation, Newspace Gallery, Sydney
2000 Dried Fruit, site specific installation First Draft, Sydney
1998 Orange Lift, site specific installation developed in situ, South Gallery, Sydney
1998 Conglomerate, site specific installation developed in situ, South Gallery, Sydney2015
1996 Urban Landscape, Kinesis Gallery Sydney
1990 Roads, Mixed media site specific installation at Window Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group shows

2018 Wei Bao Shan in ‘Degrees of Refinement’  Used clothing, fabric, paper, paint Aps Sydney
2014 Tourquoise Chair in ‘Domesticated’ hand dyed wool, polesther wadding, polystyrene Aps
2013 Pakse in Black. Articulate project space. Column for Vientiane in Articulate turns 3, Aps.
2012 Turquoise Chair in the Bakers Dozen, UTS gallery, Sydney
2011 Psychedelic Dream Home in Horror Vaccuii, Viva Mexico, Aps, Lost Spirits in Articulate turns One, Aps, Sydney
2008 Phosphorus in Local Time, with Beata Geyer & Margaret Roberts, Tin Sheds Sydney
2004 Chromophobic, exhibition with Beata Geyer, Rocketart, Newcastle
2004 Only for Flamingos in Plane To Line And Point, Tin Sheds, Sydney
2002 Drawing a Line, Gallery Wren, Sydney
2002 F2, curate Billy Gruner. Idspace contemporary art Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Installation in “pgr”, Newspace Gallery, Sydney
2000 Granny Smith Installation in Green, Kudos Gallery, with Margaret Roberts & Tony Warburton
1997 Forest, in Untitled, curate Angharad Wynne-Jones, Performance Space, Sydney
1991 Flower Arrangement, Installation in a Sense of Space, Coach House Gallery
1991 Road through Rock and Cloud, in Osmosis, Gary Anderson Gallery
1989 Black Road, bitumen and formica sculpture in China Crisis Exhibition, Chinatown
1989 Red Road, installation curate Adrian Hall, First Draft Gallery
1985 Suburban Cross Section in Selection Exhibition, curate Tony Bond, Manly Gallery

Curatorial

2018 Curator of “Degrees of Refinement” at Articulate project space
2014 Curator of “Domesticated” at Articulate project space. project funded by a Leichhardt council grant.

Residencies and Grants
2008 Artspace Studio residency
2006 Bundanon residency NSW
2004 Slak Guest Studio residency, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2003 Australia Council Skills and Arts Development Grant: Los Angeles Studio Residency
2002 Beauty Thematic residency, Banff Centre, Canada

Board membership
Founding member of Articulate project space, Leichhardt, Sydney. Board member until 2016 Duties include coordinating and curating group shows and grant applications.