Leigh Hobba b. 1949

  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (New Media Artist)
Experimental performance and new media artist who first exhibited with the Experimental Art Foundation in the mid 1970s.
Tags: Experimental art
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exhibited at
The idea of visible / Leigh Hobba. New video works / Mary Lou Pavlovic. Images d'architecture: architecture de l'image / Lucien Herve.
Date
1998
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
The idea of visible / Leigh Hobba. New video works / Mary Lou Pavlovic. Images d’architecture: architecture de l’image / Lucien Herve. Woolloomooloo, NSW: Artspace Visual Arts Centre, 1998.
ISBN 187617406

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Video/Film, Photography
participated in
AIMIA Conference
Date
2 July 1995 - 5 July 1995
Description

ANAT coordinated a program/exhibition of screen-based new media work for the The Australasian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA) conference, held at the Adelaide Convention Centre  2 – 5 July 1995 …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/4978
Note
Included in
participated in
Art Rage
Date
1994 - 1998
Description

A series of 79 art works commissioned, curated and produced for ABC television’s late night music program, Rage, by Kim Machan …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/4455
Note
Included in
exhibited at
Video visions
Date
24 August 1990
Place
Arthouse, Launceston, TAS
Description

Four video installations and single channel vieo by Leigh Hobba, Floride Pavlovic, Nick Hall and Matthew Perkins. Source: Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery History Archive.

Tags
Video installation
exhibited at
Soundworks
Date
9 May 1986 - 11 May 1986
Place
Performance Space, Sydney, NSW
Type
Performance
Tags
Biennale of Sydney
exhibited at
Model for Community Art
Date
September 1980
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Documentation from Perth residency by Leigh Hobba

Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
performed at
Friday Nights at the EAF
Date
August 1980
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Leigh Hobba, Peter Cheslyn, Cathy Cherry, Phillip Rees, The Perth Papers… performances

Tags
Experimental Art Foundation, Performance
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
April/May Show
Date
April 1979 - May 1979
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Installation, performance, video, discussion by Adelaide artists

Tags
Experimental Art Foundation, Installation, Performance, Video
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
performed at
Freeways
Date
July 1978
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Ian de Gruchy, Leigh Hobba, performance, soundworks

exhibited at
Terrorism in Australia
Date
July 1978
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Robert Rooney, Leigh Hobba, installation

Tags
Experimental Art Foundation, Installation
exhibited at
Stockhausen's birthday
Date
1978
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Celebration, phone call to Stockhausen, performance.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Stephanie Britton (ed.) A decade at the EAF: A history of the Experimental Art Foundation 1974-1984. Adelaide: The Experimental Art Foundation, 1984

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Performance
performed at
Cult Objects
Date
November 1977
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Friday nights at the EAF, Leigh Hobba, Cult Objects, Friday night performance sessions

Tags
Performance
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
Project 18: Some Recent Art in Adelaide
Date
25 June 1977 - 24 July 1977
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Project exhibition, curated by Bernice Murphy, that brought recent Adelaide experimental art to Sydney

Type
Exhibition
appeared at
Come Out
Date
May 1977
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Series of workshops for high school students

Type
Festival
Tags
Workshop
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
Note
ran workshops
exhibited at
Invitation to a Beheading
Date
December 1976
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Leigh Hobba and Paul Hay, videotape
Source: Britton, Stephanie (ed.) 1984, A decade at the EAF: A History of the Experimental Art Foundation 1974-1984, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

Tags
Experimental Art Foundation
performed at
Drunk Elephant
Date
September 1976
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Jim Allen, performance; also Leigh Hobba, Richard Tipping

Tags
Experimental Art Foundation, Performance art
performed at
One
Date
22 April 1976
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Type
Performance

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