CLAUDIA LEONARD

Claudia Leonard is an artist working across animation, projection, sculpture, and installation. A BFA (Animation) graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts, her practice explores the interplay between digital and physical forms through immersive environments foregrounding colour, light, and motion.

Her work combines traditional animation with experimental techniques—including claymation, digital processes, and code—to create vivid, dreamlike visual systems. Her films have screened internationally, with Last Call At the Parade awarded Best Animation at the Sydney Women’s International Film Festival and nominated for Best Australian Short. Her earlier work, Unstitching, received Best International Animation at the Couch Short Film Festival.

Expanding beyond the screen, Claudia develops large-scale projection and installation works that emphasise materiality and audience experience. Recent projects include Tidal Traces, an interactive installation responding to environmental impact (Ocean Lovers Festival, 2024), Overgrowth, a projection-sculpture work created for Woodburnia Festival (2024), and a large-scale immersive installation integrating sculpture and projection presented at Digi Music and Arts Festival, Canberra.

She has exhibited across galleries and festivals, and recently completed Signal’s Young Artist Residency, where she developed The Moon Has Ascended Upon Us—a multi-sensory installation integrating projection, motion- interaction, sculpture, and sound.