Leonie Matthews

Leonie has worked in the creative industry for over thirty years as a practitioner, educator and researcher. Skilled in team collaboration and focused on achieving impactful results, she has strong communication, organizational, and culturally respectful interpersonal skills. Leonie is professional, experienced, and ready to contribute in a volunteer capacity.

Architectural practice:

• Significant body of built projects
• Provision of pro-bono services for the proposed Aboriginal Males Healing Centre, Newman, 2018
• Design services for Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation, 2024

Exhibited creative works:

• 'Mountain Quarry', Shire of Mundaring Acquisition, Mundaring Arts Centre, 2022
• ‘Yangon Alley Garden’, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 2021
• Botanical City’, Yangon, 2020
• “Pansodan Street”, ‘Urban Screening’: Federation & Harmony Square, Monash University, 2020
• ‘Cliff & High Street’ - University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 2020
• “Pansodan Street”, ‘Urban Screening’: Perth Cultural Centre, 2020
• ‘Interview with Don Bailey’, in ‘Civic Visions’, Council House, City of Perth, 2019
• “McMullan Building” in ‘Dead Matter’: Watt Space, Newcastle, 2019
• ‘xyz’ SpatialCo, Onespace Gallery, Highgate Hill, Queensland, 2019

Curated exhibitions:

• ‘Out of the Sea’, Midland Junction Arts Centre, 2021
• ‘Civic Visions: Council House 1954 - 1963’, Council House, Perth, Western Australia, 2020
• ‘Still Life’, Mundaring Arts Centre – Exhibition Co-curator, 2015
• ‘Trace: Architectural Musings’, Mundaring Arts Centre - Exhibition Co-curator, 2014
• ‘Unfixed Connections’, Perth Centre for Photography, Curator, 2014

Grants:

• Yangon Alley Garden: Community Arts Project, local partner Doh Eain, Australia-ASEAN Council 2019
• Lessons from Malaysia, New Colombo Plan Short Mobility Programme, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Federal Government, 2018

Fieldtrips & workshops

• Yangon Alley Garden Workshop, as part of Yangon Alley Garden: Community Arts Project, local partner Doh Eain, 2020
• Yangon Storytelling Masterclass, as part of Yangon Alley Garden: Community Arts Project, local partner Doh Eain, 2019
• Learning from Malaysia, School of Architecture, The University of Queensland, Fieldtrip 2018
• Learning from Penang, School of Architecture, The University of Queensland, Fieldtrip 2016

Recognition for teaching excellence:

• Citation for Excellence in Student Learning, ARCH3341 Architecture Fieldwork, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, The University of Queensland, 2019

• Australian Institute of Architects, 2002 - present
• Mundaring Arts Centre, Western Australia, 2010 – present
• Parlour – gender, equity and architecture, 2022 - present