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STALA Contemporary Art Stala Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery located at 11 Southport St, West Leederville 6007.
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STALA CONTEMPORARY showcases stellar Australian contemporary art. Artworks are available online at www.stalcontemporary.com.au and we offer arts consultancy, leases and project management. Contact Sherri Staltari (Director) 0417 184 638 for viewing appointments or queries.

UMBRALES - Marcia Espinosa (WA)‘UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS’ - joint solos by Marcia Espinosa + Sue Leeming Open Wed-Sat 10am-...
15/10/2026

UMBRALES - Marcia Espinosa (WA)

‘UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS’ - joint solos by Marcia Espinosa + Sue Leeming

Open Wed-Sat 10am-4pm

‘Chilean-born artist Marcia Espinosa explores the threshold as both an architectural form and a metaphor for moments of transition. Through charcoal drawings and clay sculptures, I draw on memories of Andean landscapes, ancient temples, sacred geometry, and the relationship between earth and sky.

Life’s challenges can bring us to unexpected thresholds, prompting internal questions about existence, impermanence, and the time we are given in this world. These moments of uncertainty and transformation become spaces for reflection.

Through geometry, repetition, openings, and layered forms, the works move between the physical and the inner world. UMBRALES (Spanish for thresholds) considers the threshold not simply as a passage from one place to another, but as a space between what has been, what is, and what is yet to come.’

Ancestral
Stoneware clay and glazes
36 x 27 x 10cm
2026

THRESHOLDS - Sue Leeming (WA)‘UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS’ - joint solos by Marcia Espinosa + Sue Leeming Open Wed-Sat 10am-4p...
15/10/2026

THRESHOLDS - Sue Leeming (WA)

‘UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS’ - joint solos by Marcia Espinosa + Sue Leeming

Open Wed-Sat 10am-4pm

Sue Leeming’s latest collection of abstracted landscapes presents THRESHOLDS as not merely a boundary but a place of possibility. It is the space between what is known and what is becoming, between where one has come from and where one stands now. Her paintings dwell within this in-between space—the space between places, memories and states of being—-inviting contemplation of connection, belonging and the shifting ground of identity.

Threshold
oil, ink, cold wax on wood panel (framed)
80 x 80cm

UMBRALES - Marcia Espinosa (WA)‘UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS’ OPENING EVENT - TOMORROW!SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pmWe warmly invit...
09/10/2026

UMBRALES - Marcia Espinosa (WA)

‘UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS’ OPENING EVENT - TOMORROW!
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm

We warmly invite you to the Opening Night of UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS - joint solos by Marcia Espinosa + Sue Leeming. Tomorrow SAT 10 October 6-8pm. Everyone is welcome.

‘Chilean-born artist Marcia Espinosa explores the threshold as both an architectural form and a metaphor for moments of transition. Through charcoal drawings and clay sculptures, I draw on memories of Andean landscapes, ancient temples, sacred geometry, and the relationship between earth and sky.

Life’s challenges can bring us to unexpected thresholds, prompting internal questions about existence, impermanence, and the time we are given in this world. These moments of uncertainty and transformation become spaces for reflection.

Through geometry, repetition, openings, and layered forms, the works move between the physical and the inner world. UMBRALES (Spanish for thresholds) considers the threshold not simply as a passage from one place to another, but as a space between what has been, what is, and what is yet to come.’

Zenith
charcoal on Arches Aquarelle paper
44 x 35 x 3cm (framed)
2026

THRESHOLDS - Sue Leeming (WA)‘UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS’ OPENING EVENT - TOMORROW!SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pmWe warmly invite ...
09/10/2026

THRESHOLDS - Sue Leeming (WA)

‘UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS’ OPENING EVENT - TOMORROW!
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm

We warmly invite you to the Opening Night of UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS - joint solos by Marcia Espinosa + Sue Leeming. Tomorrow SAT 10 October 6-8pm. Everyone is welcome.

Sue Leeming’s latest collection of abstracted landscapes presents THRESHOLDS as not merely a boundary but a place of possibility. It is the space between what is known and what is becoming, between where one has come from and where one stands now. Her paintings dwell within this in-between space—the space between places, memories and states of being—-inviting contemplation of connection, belonging and the shifting ground of identity.

In the wonder
2026
oil and ink on canvas (framed)
40 x 30cm

OPENING EVENT - SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm. You are warmly invited to our joint solo exhibitions openings - UMBRALES | TH...
06/10/2026

OPENING EVENT - SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm.

You are warmly invited to our joint solo exhibitions openings - UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS by Marcia Espinosa (WWA) | SUE LEEMING (WA)

‘Chilean-born artist Marcia Espinosa explores the threshold as both an architectural form and a metaphor for moments of transition. Through charcoal drawings and clay sculptures, I draw on memories of Andean landscapes, ancient temples, sacred geometry, and the relationship between earth and sky.

Life’s challenges can bring us to unexpected thresholds, prompting internal questions about existence, impermanence, and the time we are given in this world. These moments of uncertainty and transformation become spaces for reflection.
Through geometry, repetition, openings, and layered forms, the works move between the physical and the inner world. UMBRALES (Spanish for thresholds) considers the threshold not simply as a passage from one place to another, but as a space between what has been, what is, and what is yet to come.’

Cosmos
Stoneware clay, glazes, wood, oil paint and glue
37.5 x 29 x 9cm
2026

OPENING EVENT - SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm. You are warmly invited to our joint solo exhibitions openings - UMBRALES | TH...
06/10/2026

OPENING EVENT - SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm.

You are warmly invited to our joint solo exhibitions openings - UMBRALES | THRESHOLDS by Marcia Espinosa (WWA) | SUE LEEMING (WA)

Sue Leeming’s latest collection of abstracted landscapes presents THRESHOLDS as not merely a boundary but a place of possibility. It is the space between what is known and what is becoming, between where one has come from and where one stands now. Her paintings dwell within this in-between space—the space between places, memories and states of being—-inviting contemplation of connection, belonging and the shifting ground of identity.

Reservoir
oil, ink, cold wax on wood panel (framed)
100 x 80cm
2026

UMBRALES - Marcia Espinosa (WA)OPENING EVENT - SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm‘Chilean-born artist Marcia Espinosa explores th...
04/10/2026

UMBRALES - Marcia Espinosa (WA)

OPENING EVENT - SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm

‘Chilean-born artist Marcia Espinosa explores the threshold as both an architectural form and a metaphor for moments of transition. Through charcoal drawings and clay sculptures, I draw on memories of Andean landscapes, ancient temples, sacred geometry, and the relationship between earth and sky.

Life’s challenges can bring us to unexpected thresholds, prompting internal questions about existence, impermanence, and the time we are given in this world. These moments of uncertainty and transformation become spaces for reflection.
Through geometry, repetition, openings, and layered forms, the works move between the physical and the inner world. UMBRALES (Spanish for thresholds) considers the threshold not simply as a passage from one place to another, but as a space between what has been, what is, and what is yet to come.’

Umbrales
2026
Stoneware clay, glazes
41 x 27 x 12cm

Artist image courtesy the artist

THRESHOLDS - Sue Leeming (WA)OPENING EVENT - SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pmSue Leeming’s latest collection of abstracted land...
04/10/2026

THRESHOLDS - Sue Leeming (WA)

OPENING EVENT - SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm

Sue Leeming’s latest collection of abstracted landscapes presents THRESHOLDS as not merely a boundary but a place of possibility. It is the space between what is known and what is becoming, between where one has come from and where one stands now. Her paintings dwell within this in-between space—the space between places, memories and states of being—-inviting contemplation of connection, belonging and the shifting ground of identity.

Born in Aotearoa New Zealand and living in Western Australia, Leeming’s praxis is shaped by her Māori and Pakeha heritage and by the experience of moving between cultural and geographical worlds. She positions the act of making as an autobiographical inquiry into the shifting contours of her inner terrain.

Through the juxtaposition of the painted image and free-verse poetry she invites the viewer to inhabit the pause between past and present realities, and what is actual and what is perceived. Leeming allows material, gesture and chance to enter into this dialogue with intention. Layers emerge, dissolve and reappear, creating spaces that hover between recognition and abstraction, presence and absence. The act of painting becomes a form of listening and questioning—an encounter with the unknown and what might surface when control gives way to intuition.

Her work ultimately suggests that identity is not a static destination, but a continual journey, firmly rooted in the brave acceptance of the transitions that define our

A place of rest
2026
oil on linen (framed)
71 x 51cm

Artist image courtesy the artist

SAVE THE DATE! Opening Event SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pmMarcia Espinosa Chellew Sue Leeming (Harris)
15/09/2026

SAVE THE DATE! Opening Event SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 6-8pm

Marcia Espinosa Chellew
Sue Leeming (Harris)

Address

11 Southport Street, West Leederville
Perth, WA
6007

Opening Hours

Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

+61417184638

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