Leah Leaman is a Gurindji/Malngin woman, artist and Chair of the Board of Directors of Karungkarni Art. She works for NT Government Department of Families. Leah takes a pivotal role in many Art Centre projects including two recent culture/language/art/science projects, Tamarra: Termites and their Mounds and the ‘Electro-Magnetic perception in Gurindji people’ project (in collaboration with Professor Felicity Meakins at the University of Queensland and Professor Joe Kirschvink and other researchers from Caltech in Los Angeles). Her artwork has featured in a number of events and exhibitions including the annual exhibition at Charles Darwin University ACIKE Unit commemorating the Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture (2015–2018) and the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. Leah’s work, Women Collecting Flowers and Bushfood, toured Australia as part of the Karungkarni Art/Brenda L Croft exhibition ‘Still In My Mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality’. Her painting, ‘Ngumpin Kartiya’, was commissioned by The Plenary to represent its Reconciliation Action Plan. In 2024, she was a joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country.
