Born in Goondiwindi in 1966, Leonie Binge has lived at the Toomelah Mission near Boggabilla, NSW her whole life. In 1999 Binge enrolled in the Certificate IV, Aboriginal Visual Culture at Boggabilla TAFE, graduating in 2001. In 2006 she gained her Certificate II Pulp and Paper Manufacturing, also from the TAFE college.
Binge was a founding member the Euraba Paper Company in the late 1990s and left soon after but rejoined the group in 2005. That same year she exhibited her pastels on handmade paper images at the Cowra Regional Gallery in the exhibition Paperworks, in Paper as Object, a 2001 – 2004 national touring exhibition.
In 2005 Binge was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize at NSW Parliament House and in the Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in Darwin. In 2006 Binge’s work was included in two exhibitions; Euraba Paper at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and in Goomeroi Artists from Boggabilla at Gunadah Regional Gallery both in NSW.
- Writers:
- Allas, Tess
- Date written:
- 2007
- Last updated:
- 2011
