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Artist blog

This artist blog covers everything from important news, artistic inspiration and just general thoughts on life. My favourite topics of conversation are art, fashion, gender equality and personal development. My writing has an arty, feminist spin because that's just the way I roll.

Dec 29, 2018
3 min

Farewell to my well-heeled friends

How many times have you fallen in-love with a pair of gorgeous, strappy stilettos only to bring them home to discover they

Jan 6, 2018
4 min

What I (finally) learnt from not buying clothes

What I learnt from not buying clothes for a whole year.

Sep 6, 2017
3 min

Ridiculously fashionable

As a fan of Suits and The Good Wife, you'd be forgiven for thinking that female lawyers are all getting around in 4 inch heels

Jun 20, 2017
3 min

How to survive without fashion

Franca Sozzaniwas was famously quoted as saying: I know a lot of people who buy fashion. know, perhaps, only two people who have style.

Mar 24, 2017
2 min

Pass me my gun dear

You may be wondering what this painting is about. It's about turning traditional gender roles on their head.

Mar 15, 2017
5 min

My year of not buying clothes (so far)

Did you know that Australians are the world's second largest consumers of textiles, buying on average 27 kilograms of new clothing each year

Jun 29, 2016
2 min

What makes an artist: Leah Mariani and her take on fashion

This article is extracted from the Bluethumb blog. Bluethumb is an online selling platform dedicated to selling Australian art to...

Nov 25, 2015
3 min

I like pretty things: does that make me shallow?

What would you do if you won millions of dollars? I’d spend it on art and fashion. Does that make me shallow?

Oct 15, 2015
3 min

Our love-hate relationship with sexual objectification

“Men look at women, women watch themselves being looked at.” It is an unavoidable truth. You might even say it’s natural.

Jun 8, 2013
1 min

And the winner is....(drumroll please)

And the winner of the 2013 Staedtler Yen female artist of the year award goes to…..(drum roll)……Leah Mariani! Yay! How exciting. I'm very...