Artwork and technical services

Leon van de Graaff is a multidisciplinary artist and professional arts technician/installer. Working primarily with found and recycled materials he creates elegant, thoughtful works of art. Works include sculpture, collage, installation, interactive, sound sculpture, automata, video, and performance. Subject matters include science, mental health, politics, media, environment, and human rights. His practice is based in Narrm/Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.

“My practice is largely concerned with found object assemblage. The scale, media, and themes vary greatly from miniature, through human-sized, to small architectural. Works include sculpture, collage, installation, interactive, sound sculpture, automata, video, and performance.  Subject matters frequently include science, mental health, politics, media, environment, and human rights. 

I tend to work from the materials and a seed concept. The conceptual and visual elements then grow through the process of making the disparate elements work together aesthetically, structurally, and thematically.  Making is a process of discovery about myself and the world.  I frequently won’t know what a work is really about until it starts to come together ⅔ to ¾ of the way through the process.  In this way it is a kind of therapy and revelation process.”

Leonvdg.art technical services include arts project management, exhibition installation, AV installation, public art installation, gallery & museum consultation, video documentation, and technical problem solving for visual and performing arts. Clients and employers have included NGV, ACCA, ACMI, CCP, Artbank, Islamic Museum of Australia, and Hume, Moreland, and Muroondah city councils.