Helen Leckie
Helen Leckie creates ceramic sculpture for both indoor and outdoor settings.
Her new work encompasses the themes of goddesses, garden spirits and monks as well as her popular "cylinder heads".
Helen is a great "people watcher" and is fascinated by cultural differences expressed in dress and mannerisms. The inspiration for her most recent work comes from her extensive travels in Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia.
She aims to communicate both the hedonistic and extroverted state of being and the contrasting secret and contained state in her sculptured figures. Some of her new figures are "wrapped" and faceless female forms, exploring the mystique of the muslim women whose faces are hidden from the world. She is also exploring her popular "finding the inner chi" figures in joyous dance forms unencumbered by the trappings of clothing. She is a keen observer of the outer forms we present to the world in different cultural and traditional incarnations and seeks to suggest the deeper levels of being that are contained or even hidden within these.
Helen has taught secondary school art for 30 years in several countries and is now creating ceramic sculpture full time from her Sunshine Coast studio.
