Furniture as material study
Leonie Evans.
Sculptural seating shaped from brick, concrete, stone, glass, wood, and steel.
Collections
Grouped by material.
Each piece begins with a single substance — and asks what happens when it becomes a place to sit.
Artist
Chairs, culture, and the spaces between.
From retail floors across Asia Pacific to gallery installations at home, her work asks how everyday objects — especially the chair — shape the way we inhabit a room.
Artists Background
Curriculum vitae.
Education, leadership, exhibitions, and press across three decades of design and art practice.
Design Artist · Retail Design Lead (APAC) · Blue Mountains, Australia
Design artist working across sculpture, product design, and spatial composition. Her practice centres on the chair — its form, its cultural role, and the way objects shape how people inhabit space. Group Head of Retail Design for Asia Pacific at Space and Poliform, leading showroom renovations, layouts, and display orders across Australia and Asia. Over 30 years of design and art practice investigating cultural life and the stories embedded in everyday products.
Education
- 1998
- Bachelor of Creative Arts — University of Wollongong Major: Theatre Design. Secondary disciplines: Sculpture, Graphics, Drawing.
Professional Experience
- 2008–Current
- Head of Retail Design, APAC — Space Furniture Leading showroom renovations, layouts, and display orders across Australia and Asia for Space and Poliform.
Selected Work Highlights
- Poliform Renovation, Sydney
- Bowermans Renovation, Sydney
- Space Renovation, Singapore
- SP01 × Hayden Shapes Collaboration, Space Australia
- Design Insiders, Singapore
- Design Office & Space Renovation, Melbourne
- Space Commercial Retail Design, Sydney
- Space Exhibition, Denfair, Melbourne
- Baxter Launch, Asia Pacific
- Cassina Launch, Singapore
Selected Installations & Exhibitions
- Kartell Casa, Installation, Space Sydney
- Home, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
- Chairs, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
- Shaping the Future, Installation, Space Sydney & Melbourne
- Funnel, Installation, Sydney Opera House
- Park Life, Installation, collaboration with Space Furniture & Lee Broom, Space Sydney
- Steel Sister City, Casula Powerhouse
- Concrete Manor, Kinetic Studio, Newtown
Projects, Awards & Residencies
- Woodford Academy, Artist in Residence
- Wally Ruler, Product Design, Launch Pad (InDesign), Finalist
- Bondi Banners, Public Art Proposal, Sightworks, Shortlisted
- Bloom Street Project, Large-scale Sculpture Installation, Willoughby City Council
Press
- Kartell Casa, Installation, Space Sydney — Vogue Australia
- Chairs, Articulate Project Space, Sydney — Design Hoarder
- Shaping the Future, Installation, Space Sydney & Melbourne — Yellowtrace
- Park Life, Exhibition, Space Furniture & Lee Broom — Yellowtrace
- The Art of Dr. Seuss, Exhibition, Sydney Opera House — Concrete Playground