In collaboration with Aotearoa NZ-based gallery PAULNACHE, Quality presents Sometimes Lady Macbeth Pops By To Compare Legs by Virginia Leonard.

17 Oct - 26 Oct
Opening night: 6 - 8pm, Friday 17 October
Gallery Hours: 12-4pm, Sunday 19 October, Saturday 25 October and Sunday 26 October

Address
Upstairs, 1b Marine Parade, Abbotsford

In reflecting on Sometimes Lady Macbeth Pops By To Compare Legs, Virginia writes:

“I really want to cast glass onto ceramics, but I don’t think I’m physically strong enough. But I’m awfully good with resin, so that’s the look I’m going for. Suddenly I have become hyper aware of opaque and transparency together within my practice. I have no idea why it has taken me this long to even consider the juxtapositions between these two positions. Maybe I’m a slow learner but I’m making up for time at the minute. I bring my fired and glazed ceramics home from the studio and cast resin onto the work in my garage. I’ve trashed the garage, it’s covered in resin, Olly can’t park his car in there anymore and the lawn mower now lives under the house. But it’s worth it when the position of opaque versus transparency is up for exploration.”

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Virginia Leonard

b. 1965 Auckland
Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand

Virginia holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, which she completed in 2001. She has won numerous awards and residencies, including the 2025 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, 2019 Artist-in-Residence prize in Finland, the Open to Art Ceramic Award from Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy, and the Glass House/Stone House Residency in Chenaud, France. In 2017 she won the Ceramic residency at Guldagergaard, Denmark. Closer to home, she was awarded the Merit Award in the 2015 Portage Ceramic Awards, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland. Leonard’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout Australasia and internationally, including exhibitions in Switzerland, Italy, USA, and Denmark, and is held in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and the prestigious Ann G. Tenenbaum Collection, New York. She is profiled in the influential Thames and Hudson book 100 Sculptures of Tomorrow.

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