CV

COLLABORATIVE CV:

LEANNE SHEDLEZKI & NAOMI SHEDLEZKI

Born/Live: Sydney, Australia

GRANTS/AWARDS

2009
City of Sydney Grant

2008
Japan Foundation Support Program for New Visual Artists (Invited Recipient)
NAVA Marketing Grant

2007
Arts NSW Projects Grant
Australia Japan Society of NSW Grant
Cowra Japan Society Grant
Federation of Australia Japan Societies Grant

RESIDENCY

2007
Cowra Japanese Garden & Arts Centre, Cowra, NSW

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008
Facetnate!: People to People, Place to Place: Australia-Japan, Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Match Box Projects, AWEspace II Gallery, UNSW, Kensington

2007
Out & About: Cowra Japanese Garden & Arts Centre, Cowra, NSW
Match Box Galleries – Out & About, Tusculum Gallery, RAIA, Potts Point, NSW
Influence – Japan, Gosford Edogawa Commemorative Garden, Gosford, NSW
People to People, Place to Place: Sydney Tokyo Nagoya, Gosford Regional Gallery

2006-
Artspace is Everywhere, Match Box Galleries Tour: Sydney, Tokyo, Nagoya, Furudono, Osaka, Brisbane, Melbourne, Willoughby, Cowra, Gosford, Yokohama

2006
People to People, Place to Place: Sydney Tokyo Nagoya, Kudos, Paddington, NSW
Match Box Projects; Sydney Tokyo Nagoya: International Design Museum, International Design Centre, Nagoya, JAPAN
Match Box Projects, Sydney Design 06, Space, Alexandria, NSW; Box, Melbourne, VIC
People to People, Place to Place, COFASpace, UNSW, Paddington, NSW

SELECTED EVENTS:
Match Box Performances/Talks/ Presentations/Events:

2008   
Breaking New Ground, Australia Japan Society of NSW, Tresscox, Sydney, NSW
Art in the Park, Nagoya Gardens, Hyde Park, Sydney
Match Box Galleries, Customs House Forecourt, Sydney, NSW
Pecha Kucha, Superdeluxe, Tokyo, Japan

2007
Matched, Gaffa Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney NSW
Sydney Design 07 Pecha Kucha, Customs House Forecourt, Sydney, NSW
Willoughby Art Festival, Chatswood, Willoughby, NSW
Sakura Martsuri, Cowra Japanese Garden and Arts Centre, Cowra, NSW
Australian Art Collectors 10th Birthday Party, MCA, Sydney, NSW
Match Box Projects:Journey to Japan, Gosford Regional Gallery/Arts Centre, Gosford
Match Box Projects Picnic, Nagoya Gardens, Hyde Park, Sydney

2006
Australia-Japan Business Association Conference, Shangrila, Sydney, NSW
Federation of Australia-Japan Societies Symposium, Maritime Museum, Sydney
Tokyo Art Beat 2nd Anniversary Party, Superdeluxe, Tokyo, JAPAN
Aichi Geidai Cultural Festival, Nagoya, Aichi, JAPAN

SELECTED EXCHANGE PROJECTS/ACTIVITIES

2006-
Match Box Cultural Centre Friendship Project: evolving series of community art projects: children participate in art & cultural activities/workshops/visit exhibitions and create artwork themed: “Playing with my Friends” for Portable Community Friendship Walls (to date conducted in Sydney, Gosford, Cowra, NSW; Fukushima, Tokyo, JAPAN)

2006
Match Box Exchange Tour: Sydney & Tokyo Artists/Curators exchange: incl art tours, visits to artist’s studios, Talks by MCA, AGNSW & BOS Curators (Sydney)
Match Box Biennale of Sydney Australia-Japan Exchange: studio visits & exchanges between Japanese Biennale of Sydney artists & Match Box artists (Tokyo & Sydney)
Tokyo Geidai – Imants Tillers – Exchange, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo (Tokyo)
Geidai Festival – Match Box Tour, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art & Music, Aichi

SELECTED ARTICLES (Japanese article titles translated to English)
Dominique Angelero, Match Box Projects, Incubate, Winter 2008, p26
Tracey Clement, Life in a suitcase, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March, 2008, p25
Lexi Landsman, ‘Twins’ exhibition strikes a match’ Sydney Life, Weekly Magazine of the AJN, 14 March, 2008, p11
David Boyd, ‘Focus on New Visual Artists in 2008,Omusubi, The Japan Foundation Magazine, Issue 14, Summer 2008, Cover-p1
Karina Dunger, ‘Have art will travel, as twins think outside the box’, mX, 12 March, 2008, p7  
‘Match Box Gallery’ Museum and Galleries NSW, The MAG, Issue 3, 2007, p18
‘Think outside the box at the Japanese Garden’, The Cowra Guardian, September 28, 2007, p8
Tim Elliot, ‘Watch This Face – Leanne Shedlezki and Naomi Shedlezki’, the(sydney)magazine, issue 47,  Sydney Morning Herald, March 2007, p32
News, ‘It’s hip to be square’, Gosford City Sun Weekly, 22 March 2007, p16
Tadasu Harada, ‘Match Box Projects Exhibition goes to Gosford’, Nichigo Press, Feb 2007 p23
Kate Moore ‘Match Box Project’ Central Coast Express Advocate, 7 February, 2007 p49
Penny Craswell, ‘People to People – Leanne and Naomi Shedlezki talk about the Match Box Project’, SDQ Magazine, Design Quarterly, January-March 2007 p10
Tadasu Harada, ‘Profile – Australia-Japan Artist Exchange – Sisters Naomi Shedlezki & Leanne Shedlezki’, 2007 Four Seasons (2007 edition)p 23
Tadasu Harada, ‘60 Australian & Japanese artists participate in Match Box Project‘, Nichigo Press, December 2006, p25
Tadasu Harada, ‘Tokyo Geidai Post Graduate Students – Exchange with Sydney Artists’, Nichigo Press, September 2006, p22
Mana Togo, ‘Australia –Japan Art Exchange’ Jams.tv, August, 2006
Carolina Totterman, ‘People to People’, COFA Magazine, Issue 16, Autumn/Winter 2006 p27
 
SELECTED INTERNET ARTICLES 
Links can be found at
http://www.matchboxprojects.com/wordpress/?page_id=150
For info on Leanne’s individual practice see http://www.leanne.com.au

CONTACT

Leanne Shedlezki and Naomi Shedlezki
PO Box 880
Bondi Junction
NSW  Australia 1355

Phone:   Australia wide - Leanne 0419 388 108 Naomi 0410 331 600
Phone:   Global - Leanne +61 419 388 108 Naomi +61 410 331 600
E-mail:   matchboxprojects@gmail.com     
Web:   www.matchboxprojects.com