Leonie (Lee) Rehardt / Bilya Boodja – River Country (LR06)

Leonie (Lee) Rehardt is a Gold Coast-based Aboriginal artist with 25 years of experience in her cultural art style, combining extensive knowledge and a broad skill-set of contemporary non-indigenous art.

Leonie’s ancestral tracks originate from the Boonwurrung mob of Port Phillip Bay in Victoria. She has spent much of her life piecing together her family and ancestry from Tasmania and Victoria.

Leonie has blossomed throughout her life, raising three children of her own and being married for 50 years.

Within Leonie’s beautiful Aboriginal artworks, you will find stories of dreaming and rich Indigenous culture cultivated from many years of meeting and absorbing her kin and traditions. Leonie’s true life calling has been her art; she remains grateful and blessed to share it with the world.

Long ago it was women’s business to bear children, teach, cook and gather food. Women living along the Bilya would set fish and shellfish traps catching a bounty for their tribe.

The methods have since been recognized as some of the most ingenious hunting methods found anywhere in the world.

We have always been an innovative culture.