Born in 1991 in Nowra, Australia, Niah Juella McLeod is a contemporary artist of Aboriginal Yuin (Wandandian, Gunaikurnai, Jaimathang, and Monaro) and Anglo-Celtic heritage. She grew up in Bangalow, surrounded by nature and a loving family.<\/p>\n
Her perspective was shaped between the artistic world of her mother and the spiritual legacy of her father, Bobby McLeod, a poet and Aboriginal activist. Now living in Byron Bay with her husband and their three children, Niah explores her identity through a sensitive and meditative artistic practice. The loss of her grandmother marked a turning point. She began a journey of reconnection with her roots, expressed through works made of delicate lines and dots \u2014 spaces of transmission, memory, and identity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I paint, each dot almost feels like a breath.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monographic publication to coincide with the exhibition “Niah Juella McLeod Doonooch Mabra l Owl Eyes – Dans le sillage de la chouette \u00bb Bilingual catalogue French\/English Format 26 x 21 cm Paperback, 56 pages ISBN : 979-10-95931-03-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20071,"template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_api_id":"66061","_exhibitors":["13130"],"footnotes":""},"edition":[370],"country":[],"class_list":["post-20067","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","edition-antica-namur-fine-art-fair-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antica.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antica.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antica.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antica.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20079,"href":"https:\/\/www.antica.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20067\/revisions\/20079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antica.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antica.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antica.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=20067"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antica.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=20067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}