Lèonie Cronin is a London based artist who aspires to awaken intrinsic female worth suppressed by patriarchy.

She creates embodied rituals which manifest primarily in the form of performance and sculpture.

Informed by somatic performance techniques, yoga and shamanic practices her rituals are site sensitive and relate to female sexuality, spirituality and fertility.

Her sculptures take the form of ceramic rattles charged to her through shamanic practice. Her companions during the performance, they play hosts to the spirituality of the piece.

Cronin’s work spans painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography and film. The work on this website covers her most recent 10 year period of making charting her exploration through unconscious mythology, consumerist femininity and female spirituality. 

She has exhibited in the 250th Royal Academy Summer show (2018) , for The Uniqlo Lates at the Tate Modern (2018)  and in London group shows at Safehouse, Arcadia Missa, Space Station 65, Beaconsfield and Gasworks. 

Cronin graduated with an MA in Fine Art, Camberwell College of Art, 2012, a BA (hons) Fine Art Norwich Art School, 1993 and a GAD BTec, Chelsea Art School, 1990. In 2008 she co-founded South London Women Artists (SLWA) and played an instrumental part in running the group until 2013.

She has artwork in public and private collections, including The Women’s Art Library and The Birth Rites Collection. She has been shortlisted for the Bar Tur Student Award and the Birth Rites Award.

As an artist Lèonie Cronin’s art and thinking has been shaped by learning from, working alongside and performing for, amongst others: Franco B, Fran Cottell, Sally Dean, Sama Fabian, Rebecca Fortnum, Althea Greenan, Ann Liv Young, Rosalie Schwieker, Tanya Syed, Jessica Voorsanger.