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1970

Born, Christchurch, New Zealand
Lives and works Auckland, New Zealand

EDUCATION

1988-1991

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008           

Thick Air Method, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Fransisco, USA

2007
Tunnels, nets and holes, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2006
Pictures of the Lumpen Sun, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Drifters, Jonathon Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

2005 – 2006
Point of vanishing, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Fransisco and Los Angeles, California, USA

2005
Drifters, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Putting to sleep fierce beasts, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2004
Secrets and Invisibility, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2003
Dare to lose to win, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2002
Be My World, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Kindle Me Protect My Barren Matter, Room 401, Achilles House, Auckland
Forget the dead, you’ve left, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2001
Underwood, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

2000
Ghost Painting, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
New Painting, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1999
Sleepy Hollow, Manawatu Art Gallery, Pamerston North, New Zealand
New Painting, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
New Painting, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

1998
Slack Flags, The Concrete Deal Project, St. James Carpark, Wellington, New Zealand
Birdlife, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Arkenstone of Thrain (with Simon Cuming), Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1997
Pink Furniture, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
New Painting, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1996
Get Your Filthy Claws Off My Silky Draws, The High Street Project, Christchurch, New Zealand
Emergency Fu (with Daniel Malone), The High Street Project, Christchurch, New Zealand

1994
Mist Sweetie, The High Street Project, Christchurch, New Zealand

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

Better Places, curated by Melissa Keys - Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia, http://www.pica.org.au/view/Better+Places/726/

2007                  

Every colour by itself, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2006

A spoonful weighs a ton, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
A Winter Exhibition, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Tall Tales & History Lessons, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand

2005
Lapped, Campbelltown Art Centre, Campbelltown, Sydney, Australia
Small world big town – Contemporary art from Te Papa, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
World Famous in New Zealand, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House
Dealing Kindly with Insects in the House, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2004
Matrix 213: Some Forgotten Place, UC Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film
Archive, Berkeley, USA

2003
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, touring National Gallery of Australia,

2002
The Tomorrow People, Lord Mori Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Flora & Fauna, Room 401, Auckland, New Zealand
Past & Present, Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand

2001
Bright Paradise, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2000
In Glorious Dreams, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Text & Image, Lopdell House, Auckland, New Zealand
Inheriting The Netherlands, Lopdell House, Auckland, New Zealand

1999
Wonderlands, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
The Comic Show, McDougall Art Annex, Christchurch, New Zealand

1998
Signs of the Times, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Now Showing, The Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand

1996
Hangover, Waikato Museum of Art and History Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2005 —

Saskia Leek 2005 New Zealand Artist in Residence, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand

2000 —

Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Visiting Artist Programme

1997 —

Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award, New Zealand

COLLECTIONS

Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand

BIBLIOGRAPHY

[cover story], Sunday Star Times, 18 September 2005

Berkeleyan. Catch ‘em while you can, Berkeleyan, December 9, 2004

Bywater, J. Bringing It All Back Home, Govett-Brewster Gallery Magazine, 2002

Bywater, J. Saskia Leek, Artforum International September 2006, pp. 394-395

Conland, N. Saskia Leek – Drifters in Residence, Broadsheet, March-May 2006, vol.35, no.1

Conland, N. Saskia Leek, in Butler, B. (Ed.) Speculation Auckland: Venice Project, 2007, pp.134-139; 215.

Haarhaus, I. Touching from a distance in Listener, 20 October 2007, pp. 44-45

Hart, D. Home Sweet Home: an artist-collector’s passion, Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

Huddleston, C. Fading in and out: the pleasure of distance in Drifters – Saskia Leek exhibition catalogue, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand 2006

McDonald, J. Fey way, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12-13 March, 2005

Miles, A. The world of Leek, Visit #8, Summer/Autumn 2006 p. 17

Paton, J. Eye Culture: Op shop Arcadia, Listener, January 1999

Paton, J. Charmed, Ghost Painting, exhibition catalogue, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2000

Scott, H. Everything matters, Eyeline, Number 67, p. 45

Smee, S. The Shapes of Private Memories, The Australian, 25 March, 2005

Strongman, L. Saskia Leek, My Elusive Dreams, Hangover, catalogue essay, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Waikato Museum of Art and History, 1996

Tolson, D. Saskia Leek, Art New Zealand, Spring 1997

Were, V. Ghost World, Arts News New Zealand, Autumn 2003

Zuckerman- Jacobson, H,  Matrix 213: Charged Landscapes, Art Contemporaries, Vol. 1, No. 4, December 2004

Zuckerman-  Jacobson, H, Some Forgotten Place. Matrix 213, Re-imagining the Landscape in Painting, catalogue essay, UC Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA. September 2004