Courtesy: the artist and MARS Gallery, Melbourne.

Leila Jeffreys is an acclaimed photographic and video artist who lives in Sydney, Australia.

She is best known for captivating images of birds from Australia and around the world that explore and subvert the traditions of portraiture. Her avian subjects are photographed at human scale with a startling attention to colour, line, form and composition. For Jeffreys, birds are both medium and message. Her practice asks critical questions about anthropomorphism while highlighting the connection between humans and other animals, the sense of interdependence between all living species and the profound refuge nature provides in a frantic world.

Opening Event: Saturday 29 July, 4 – 6pm.

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