Jessica Ann Leffley
Jessica Ann Leffley is a Lithgow based Wiradjuri woman, both an artist and primary school teacher, who expresses her imaginations and interactions of Australian native birds through drawing and painting. Her birds have been exhibited at various galleries and to her delight, have found homes throughout Australia. Leffley sees her birds as her friends, she talks to them as she peers outside her studio window admiring the Black Cockatoos, King Parrots and Rainbow Lorikeets that sing to her while she creates. Her birds bring her comfort and joy, while also challenging her to explore her creativity and to appreciate the landscapes she knows as home.
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South East Aboriginal Arts Market 2024
Carriageworks, Redfern, NSW
Lithgow Arts Trail 2024
Lidsdale, NSW
SPARK: A Bird Week Exhibition 2024
The Corner Gallery, Stanmore, NSW
Hello, Goodbye 2024
Union Theatre, Lithgow
As the Currawong Flies - Solo Show 2024
Gallery 47, Rylstone, NSW
Weaving Ancestral Threads 2024
Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow
NAIDOC Art Exhibition 2024
Oberon, NSW
BEYOND: Aboriginal Arts & Culture in regional NSW 2024
NSW Parliament House, Sydney
Waste to Art Regional Showcase 2024
Parkes, NSW
Cementa Salon - Cementa Festival 2024
Kandos, NSW
Cut n Polish 2023
Carriageworks, Redfern
Get on Board - PCYC Charity Fundraiser 2023
PCYC Lithgow
Royal Bathurst Show (third prize) 2023
Bathurst NSW
Rydal Daffodil’s Festival 2023
Rydal, NSW
Incognito Art Show 2023
Paddington, NSW
Waste to Art Lithgow (2D Winner) 2023
Lithgow, NSW
Waste to Art Regional Showcase (Highly commended) 2023
Blayney, NSW
BRAG Art Fair 2023
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Community Exhibition 2023
Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
A Gift in a Box Art Fair 2023
Gang Gang Gallery, NSW
Cut n Polish 2022
Carriageworks
Cementa Salon - Cementa Festival 2022
Kandos, NSW
South East Aboriginal Arts Market 2022
Carriageworks, Redfern, NSW
Christmas Art Fair 2022
Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow
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I is for Ibis - An A to Z of Australian Birds 2023
Author, illustrator
Ng Ngara Collection Education Resource Kit 2017
Sydney Boys High School, NSW
(In)visible: The First Peoples and War – Education Resource Kit 2015
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Lore and Order – Education Resource Kit 2015
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
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Murungarra - to be alive 2024
Ironfest, Portland, NSW
Look What I can do - Children’s art exhibition 2024
Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow, NSW
Birds Hut HOME. 2016
Kandos. NSW
Birdshut, Cementa Fringe Festival 2015
Kandos, NSW
Beautiful Minds Project II 2012
At the Vanishing Point, Newtown, NSW
Curating Internship 2012
Verge Gallery, University of Sydney
LINE. 2012
Index. Gallery, St Peters, NSW
Beautiful Minds Project 2011
Index. Gallery, St Peters, NSW
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Dhuluny Aboriginal Art Market 2024
Bathurst, NSW
Author visit - Kandos Public School 2024
Kandos, NSW
Author visit - Little Learning Tree 2024
Lithgow, NSW
Author visit - Mudgee Pre School 2024
Mudgee, NSW
Let’s Paint a Mural 2024
Olinda, NSW
LithGROW Community Mural 2024
PCYC Lithgow, NSW
I is for Ibis - Book Launch 2023
Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow
Author visit - Cooerwull Public School 2023
Lithgow, NSW
Author visit - Cullen Bullen Public School 2023
Cullen Bullen, NSW
Mural - Cullen Bullen Public School 2023
Cullen Bullen, NSW
Mural - Hampton Public School 2023
Hampton, NSW
Stepping Stones Project, Project Coordinator 2016
Kandos High School, Kandos, NSW
Visual Arts, Gifted and Talented Program Coordinator 2015
Northlakes High School, San Remo, NSW
(In)visible: The First Peoples and War, Teacher Day, Workshop Presenter 2015
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Beautiful Minds Project Coordinator 2010-2012
Sydney, NSW
Sea of Hands Installation Designer, Reconciliation Week 2012
University of Sydney Main Campus, Broadway, NSW