Minna’s work is an ode to aliveness — the ecstatic, animal pulse that hums in all living things.
Currently living and working on Larrakia Country in Darwin, Minna creates murals and paintings that celebrate the untamed, the interconnected, and the gloriously alive. Her work moves between the urgent and the ridiculous - reverent one moment, absurd the next. Stripping forms back to their bones, she crafts bold silhouettes, organic lines, and instinctive marks to create a world in which animals and humans are equally wild: tangled in a writhing symphony of mischief, sensuality, humour, and resistance. Minna’s work speaks to a fierce love of place, a refusal to let spirit be domesticated, and the desire to protect what is living - both the earth beneath our feet and the fire within.
She believes art should exist beyond galleries - accessible, part of daily life, and connected to the people and places it speaks to. Her work lives in public and on the street across the country, and has been shown in galleries including aMBUSH, Backwoods, Saint Cloche, Laundry, Outré, Yeah Nice, and Juddy Roller.
Latest News: Tropical Tongue Opens at Laundry Gallery, Darwin
Tropical Tongue is Minna Leunig’s new solo exhibition, an ode to the restless pulse of the Tropical North, shaped by her lived experience since relocating to Larrakia Country in 2024.
Through close, ferocious observation of people and place, Minna responds to the sensory overload of the tropics - where the air fizzes with humidity and electricity, excess is ordinary, and intensity defines the atmosphere. Her instinctive visual language embraces the wild sensuality of the North, slipping between reverence and absurdity to capture the charged strangeness of everyday life in the region.
Minna invites us away from polished restraint and into the land of the Tropical Tongue: a world that’s unapologetically alive, feral, and a little bit rude.
