Being With: Eels – Leanne Tobin

Welcome to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney podcast, Being With, featuring local and international voices from across the rīvus exhibition and program. Each episode we dissect the rich and diverse relationships we hold with nature, science and technology through creative and conceptual practices that span art, design, environmentalism and activism. 

Being With discusses ancestral and futuristic knowledge systems and cultural practices as tools for understanding. Join us and our guests to find out how our micro and macro relationships with the natural world can be understood and be nurtured.

Leanne Tobin
Born 1961 in Newcastle, Australia
Lives in Sydney, Australia
Dharug

Leanne Tobin is a multidisciplinary artist of Irish, English and Aboriginal heritage descending from the Buruberong and Wumali clans of the Dharug, the traditional Aboriginal people of the Greater Sydney region. Leanne works collaboratively with community groups, local schools and institutions using her art to tell local stories and to evoke an environmental conscience and respect towards the land and its original people. Her art practice seeks to encourage an open and honest dialogue about the past and to nurture, respect and care for Country, paying homage to our Old People and their legacy.