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In time 2006 Exhibition Gardens Melbourne

In autumn the historic grounds of the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne turn a carpet of orange and brown. This landscape is often blown south into the city grid with leaves amassing in the corridors, doorways and foyers of the financial district. In time is a performance conducted in the early hours of the last Friday in autumn in 2006, wearing a self-made suit of cardboard armor LeAmon works tirelessly to rake the few remaining leaves in the grounds of the Royal Exhibition Buildings into a large pile. A work about time, labor and the temporal encounters in life of which we are destined to experience over and over.

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Heroes, Chameleons & the Absence of the Ego 1993, Temple Studio, Melbourne

408 cast white metal miniatures

LeAmon's first solo exhibition, part of the Melbourne Sculpture Triennial 1993. 408 cast miniatures of medieval knights presented in the company of myth and contemporary and narratives.

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Karada de Oboeru: Remember it with Your Body 1998, First Floor, Melbourne

Exhibit 12 marks LeAmon’s fascination with the work of French architect Eileen Gray and in particular Gray’s own self-styled training in architecture, craft and design in the early 20th century.

In the essay accompanying the exhibition Justin Clemens writes:

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Exhibit 13, 1998, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

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Supersystem Play 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Artist Spaces, Melbourne

The Supersystem performs the role of a conceptual and visual hinge between the abiding themes of desire, use, comfort and play in view of constructing an environment of objects and images. It is an object – a piece of ‘use-art’ that can be played with to reconfigure soft-micro landscapes for resting, lying, sleeping and dreaming within. Appearing in the shape of an ellipse, it unfolds and comes apart in six varying forms, one must arrange, sit, bounce, balance and rely on the practice of ‘play’ to define its use.

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Moto Showroom: The Return of Desire 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

MOTO Showroom: the return of desire is an adventure emerging from a dialogue between desire and design. Conceived through the exploration of a design methodology MOTO Showroom attempted to construct the world of the artist/designer’s practice. A strategic organization of ideas on gender and design are woven though a schema of works transfixed on the image of the motorbike and notion of the artist/designer as ‘racer’. MOTO Showroom embraced the expressive capacities of digital technologies in order to conjoin the modes of art and design practice and reveal design process within a fantastical narrative.