Nee: Piper; Matthews
b. 1954 Broken Hill, NSW
Attended Art School Wollongong Technical College, 1971.
Employed at Victorian Leadlight Magic Studio in 1992 as artist and maker of domestic and ecclesiastical stained glass. From 1993 to 2000 she ran Leonie Matthews Stained Glass, Wodonga, Vic. and has been in Sydney since 2000.
Major Works:
The Resurrection and six altar windows, Christ Church, Tallangatta, Vic. 1994
Jasper Memorial window (St. Cecelia), St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Rutherglen, Vic. 1995
Entire church, Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Albury, NSW. 1995-2001
Kiln-formed tiles with inclusions, Border Medical Imaging (reception desk), Albury, NSW. 1996
Lieschke Family Memorial windows, St. Barnabas’ Anglican Church, Henty, NSW. 1996-7
Habermann Memorial windows (Jesus and Child); Wenke Memorial windows (Angel), Zion Lutheran Church, Walla Walla, NSW. 1997, 1998
Mary McKillop window, St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Nurmurkah, Vic. 1998
Voyage of St. Brendan, St. Brendan’s Primary School Library, Shepparton, Vic. 1999
Jesus and the Children, St. John’s Anglican Church, Corowa, NSW. 2002
Stephenson and Davey Memorial windows, St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, Lennox Head, NSW. 2003
Current studio:
141 Kingsway Cronulla NSW 2230
e: lecornucopia@optusnet.com.au
w: http://www.leonielecornu.com
Last updated 18/1/09
LeC