Studio Leanne Tobin

“And being on Country has given me permission to speak loudly; to tell the truth about what has happened to the Dharug, to my family, and also to make work about the shared need to care for Country.”
—LEANNE TOBIN

eanne Tobin is a Dharug woman, living on Dharug Country at Springwood in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The Dharug of the greater Sydney region were among the first to bear the brunt of invasion, including disease, slaughter and institutionalised policies of ‘assimilation’. Yet through her practice, which spans