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Leisa Gillham - Queensland Community Artist

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Leisa Riggs

Leisa Gillham

Community Artist and Events Organizer

Splash! Artistic team member (Visual Arts)
Stormwater Education Officer, Noosa Shire Council



Leisa conducts workshops in shadow and large performance puppetry and lantern-making in various Schools, Libraries and for Community groups, festivals and events.

Treefrog
Lanterns

She writes environmental education books and material for various groups, tailored to deal with local issues. Leisa also designs sets for corporate trade shows and paints murals & backdrops for stage shows.

Recent Achievements & Activities

2003

Splash! Artistic team member (Visual Arts)
"Gone Froggin' Street" Theatre Troupe (duo) - Woodford Folk Festival 2002/2003, Noosa Regional Gallery, Education and Social Action conference Sydney, 2002, Yagubi multicultural festival, National Science Teachers conference.

Frog

2002

Artistic team for Splash! Representing the Noosa River. Shadow puppet performance with special needs students from Noosaville State School, construction of "The Ship of Forgiveness" procession piece.
Ongoing employment Stormwater Education Officer, Noosa Shire Council for the Noosa Estuary Stormwater Quality Improvement Project.

 

2 weeks private tuition in Vietnamese Water Puppetry.
4 week residency Burnside High. The "Big Beasties" sculpture project with Year 8 students.
Environmental education program for Caloundra schools and Community groups.
Member of the artistic team and community workshops for Splash! celebration Oct 2002. Commission sculpture piece 'The Ship of Forgiveness'.


Dragon Puppet

2001

Kid's Ship Building project for the Noosa Regional Gallery.
Commission construction of 2 metre Brahminy Kite sculpture, 2 mangrove propagule costumes and mangrove tree costume, funded by Coast Care and RADF.
Gympie Gold Rush Festival, funded Festivals Australia.
Buderim Street Parade and Party Green Tree Frog performance puppet.


2001

Artist in Residence Lindsey Gardens Retirement Village.
Set design and construction for the main stage "Greatest Earth on Show" expo, Nambour.
"Fantasy Ship" maquette at the AMP expo for Noosa Regional Gallery.
Mural commission Noosa Library.
3.5 metre performance platypus puppet commissioned by Petrie Ck Catchment Care Group, funded by the Westpac Bank.
Commission construction of Mary River Cod and habitat diorama for the Mary River Cod Community Network, funded by Natural Heritage Trust.

Frog Costume

 

Kid's Ship Building project for the Noosa Regional Gallery.
Commission construction of 2 metre Brahminy Kite sculpture, 2 mangrove propagule costumes and mangrove tree costume, funded by Coast Care and RADF.
Gympie Gold Rush Festival, funded Festivals Australia.
Buderim Street Parade and Party Green Tree Frog performance puppet.
Director "Humpback Symphony" Fire Event, Yag'ubi Multicultural Festival, Hervey Bay.
Facilitator Shadow puppet workshops PAKTI conference, Sunshine Coast University.
Facilitator "Catchment Care Activity" Science Teachers Assoc Qld. Biodiversity Conference, Sunshine Coast University.
Project Officer "Mary River Cod Community Network," a Natural Heritage Trust funded project hosted by Barung Landcare.


Noosa Shire Australia Day Award

2000

Two 3 metre sculptures (Fleay's Frog and Ground Parrot) commissioned by QLD Biodiversity Network, exhibited at Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa Library & State Landcare Conference 2000.
Member of the Artistic team for the creation of "SPLASH" A celebration of Communities and Waterways.
Facilitator of 4 In-schools and community workshops (from Gympie to Buderim) in large puppet making, choreography and performance skills, including 2 human puppet frogs, a 10-metre "procession dragon" type Red Bellied Black snake, many huge insects and a 5 metre Mary River Cod.


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