Minna Leunig (b.1992) lives and works on Larrakia Country in Darwin, creating paintings and murals that celebrate the untamed, the interconnected, and the ecstatic pulse of aliveness that hums through all living things. Working with instinctive mark making, bold silhouettes, and organic lines, Leunig creates worlds where animals and humans exist as equally wild forces, entangled in states of humour, sensuality, resistance, and transformation. Her visual language moves fluidly between reverence and absurdity, often stripping forms back to their essence to reveal something both primal and deeply human.
raised on a rural property in North East Victoria, Leunig’s upbringing fostered an early sensitivity to the rhythms of the natural world, shaping the intuitive and animated quality of her mark making. This connection to landscape, animals, and the physicality of everyday life continues to inform her practice, where gesture and line carry a raw immediacy and emotional charge.
At the core of her work is a fierce love of place and a desire to protect what is living, both the earth beneath our feet and the inner vitality that resists domestication. Her practice embraces art as something embedded within daily life: accessible, communal, and connected to the environments and people it speaks to. Alongside her studio practice, Leunig’s murals and public works appear across streets and spaces throughout Australia.
Leunig has exhibited nationally in galleries and project spaces and is represented by Saint Cloche.
