Bio
Leza Howie is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia. Her practice explores how time is experienced, remembered and embodied through people, place and material, inviting audiences to slow down and consider the quiet moments that shape our lives before they pass unnoticed.
Working across painting, installation, sculpture, handmade paper, ceramics, printmaking, photography, moving image, sound and electronic media, Leza creates immersive works that examine memory, care and our relationships with both human and more-than-human worlds. Her process-led practice is grounded in experimentation, material research and close observation, drawing on systems thinking, craft traditions and interdisciplinary approaches that bridge art and science.
A central inquiry within her practice is the preciousness of ordinary moments and the ways they quietly become memory. Through projects such as Temporal Residue and Holdfast, she explores time through both intimate and ecological perspectives, asking how we might live differently if we recognised that any ordinary moment could be the last time we experience it. Whether considering the rhythms of motherhood or the fragile ecologies of seaweed and coastal environments, her work encourages deeper attention to the people, places and living systems that sustain us, drawing connections between care, memory and environmental responsibility.
Leza's practice creates immersive spaces that invite reflection, foster connection and reveal new layers of meaning through sustained attention. Bringing together material, sound and image, her work encourages audiences to slow down, engage deeply and consider the people, places and living systems that quietly shape our lives. By giving voice to experiences and ecologies that are often overlooked, she asks what we choose to value, protect and remember while there is still time.
Leza is the recipient of First Prize in Fine Art and achieved the highest marks in her cohort for three consecutive years at Curtin University, an unprecedented achievement within the Fine Art program. Her practice continues to evolve through ambitious interdisciplinary projects, research collaborations and immersive exhibition-making that explore time, materiality and the ethics of care.
CV
Arts Education
2023 – undertaking part-time Bachelor of Creative Arts (Fine Arts Major) Curtin University.
Group Exhibitions
2026 HOLDFAST – Fremantle Arts Centre Moores Building Art Space – June/July 2026 (Leza Howie, Nicole Steenhof and Josephine Johnson)
2026 30x30 - Curtin University
2025 Curtin Fine Art Graduation Exhibition
2025 30x30 - Curtin University
2025 Home Front - Group exhibition, the Dock Library Docklands Melbourne (Leza Howie, Kelly Manning, Sarah Vandepeer, Kat Rae and Drey Willows).
2024 Empathy Symposium Melbourne, Monash University
2024 Research Collaboration School of Nursing and School of MCASI
2024 PAWA Golden Gala 50th Anniversary – PAWA Members Exhibition
2024 168. - 2nd year and Masters Exhibition Curtin University
2024 Belmont Art Awards
2024 Kalgoorlie Boulder Art Awards
2023 Pete Vile Drawing Prize
2023 Just Leaving - First Year and Graduate Certificate Art Show Curtin University
2023 Mandurah Art Prize
Panel Discussions
2026 Seaweed People - Holdfast art exhibition panel discussion and podcast. Speakers: Jessica Hamilton, Dr Jenny Shaw, Dr Antoine Minne, Leza Howie, Josephine Johnson, Nicole Steenhof.
2024 Studio Making Forum – John Curtin Gallery. Studio In Practice panel discussion. Speakers: Artists Jacky Cheng, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Anna Louise Richardson and Leza Howie, moderated by Director John Curtin Gallery and A/Prof. Susanna Castleden.
2024 Artistic Endeavour Within the Military and Veteran Environment – Led by ADFCAA. Speakers: Mark Johnston, LTCOL Rick Maher, COL Richard Barrett, Leza Howie, Roman Baca, Anneke Jameison, A/Prof. Drew Bird, Anthea Skinner and Professor Jane Davidson.
Articles
2026 Essay by Erin Coates for Holdfast Exhibition.
2024 Exploring the Military Art Program Australia: Bridging Creativity and Service. Duty First, Defence Force Regiments National Magazine.
Exhibition Coordinator
2025 Curtin University Fine Arts Graduation Show.
Exhibition Coordinator & Curator
2025 Bridging to Next: Truth and Reclamation. John Curtin Gallery, WA. Inaugural student collaboration of 5 non-Aboriginal graduating students to address 2025 Reconciliation Week theme utilising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks within the Curtin University Art Collection.
2019 Summertime Art Exhibition, Military Art Program Australia – MAPA Veterans Art Centre (Legacy House Building Fremantle).
2018 Coming Home Centenary of Armistice Art Exhibition, Military Art Program Australia, Government House Gardens, Western Australia.
2017 Into the Unknown, Military Art Program Australia – Subiaco Art Centre in collaboration with ‘Good Little Soldier’ theatre production.
2016 Outcome Exhibition Art Exhibition, Military Art Program Australia, Wilkinson Gallery Claremont.
Public Art
2025 Art on High – Awarded project for mural artworks. A collaborative submission, artists Leza Howie and Olivia Crockford.
2016 Gunners Cottage Public Art Project – Defence Housing Authority & Military Art Program Australia.
Experience Prior to Fine Arts
2001-2022 – Senior Management (Human Resources and Industrial Relations) roles across Mining and Construction Western Australia.
2015-Current – Founder and Director Military Art Program Australia.