LEISE KNOWLES

Leise Knowles presently living in Victoria, Australia, is a surrealist artist, photographer, poet and teacher.

Knowles has been a practicing artist and professional photographer for over twenty years. Exhibiting in Australia, Indonesia, Portugal, France and Italy since 1989. Her work being featured in art magazines, on CD covers, anthologies, textbooks and two self-published books. Knowles work is held in public and private collections. A selection of her photographs were included in the Indigenous research publication, Containers of Power: Women with Clever Hands by Louise Hamby in 2010 (Utber & Patullo Publishing, Australia).

Knowles lived and worked internationally in 2014-18 as a practising artist and photographer, Champagne-Ardenne, France and in 2018-20 practicing artist, Occitainie, France.

“My Visual Arts subject areas of expertise include practical applications in painting, printmaking, 3D installations, ceramics and sculpture. I have deep knowledge and passion for the modernist genre of Surrealism, Post-colonial Australian art history, contemporary Indigenous art practices, & Postmodernism.” -Leise Knowles.

Birth of the Morning Star, 40 x 40