Leila Jeffreys' family loved adventure and the great outdoors. Leila was born in the wilds of Papua New Guinea, and grew up in Western Australia. Her family also spent time living in a village in I...
My Garden Path | Leila Jeffreys
Leila Jeffreys is a photographer and video artist whose focus is working with birds. Her fascination with birds started about 15 years ago with a desire to take portrait photos of birds, capturing ...
‘Feathered’ brings birds in many forms to Dallas’ Erin Cluley Gallery
At Erin Cluley Gallery, the relationship between humans and birds is the subject of a new exhibition, “Feathered,” that brings together artists from several countries. Drawing on various mediums in...
Art screen lights up Alfred Deakin Place
“From an artist’s perspective, public art is probably my biggest passion,” ...“I have a real drive and desire to connect people to nature and so the opportunity to have work shown here is incredibl...
NYC Show Puts the Lens on Pet Photography
Best in Show: Pets in Contemporary Photography is a celebration of our unbreakable bond with our domesticated fuzzy, feathery, and scaly friends that perforates humanity’s delineation from the natu...
For our 106th issue, Photo London is delighted to feature Leila Jeffreys, an Australian based bird portrait artist and photographer. Best known for her captivating images of birds from Australia an...
Filming art for the big screen, sewing my feminist muse and soulful bird portraits
(From 32.39 min) Photographer Leila Jeffreys sees into the souls of birds, and is arguably Australia's leading ‘bird portraitist’. Her latest series of works feature a range of exotic birds with re...
Bird portrait photographer Leila Jeffreys' new exhibition soars into Sydney
Acclaimed Australian bird portrait photographer Leila Jeffreys first exhibition in three years opens in Sydney today. The wound is the place where the light enters, based on a line from a poem by t...
New Leila Jeffreys exhibition: The wound is the place where the light enters
Heralded for her intimate, fine art photography, Leila Jeffreys explores the fragility and strength of birds in her latest exhibition, ‘The wound is the place where the light enters’. Renowned bird...
Arthouse publisher’s bird books fly off the shelves
Italian studies of people living in urban environments claim an “irrefutable relationship” between the presence of birds and human happiness. So writes ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre, whose text ac...
Reconnect with feathered friends at Leila Jeffreys' Birdland exhibition
Think you know what a Rose-crowned fruit dove is? Look closer. Contemporary artist Leila Jeffreys has based her practice on exploring the unique characteristics of Australia’s quintessential bird ...
Elegant Portraits Highlight the Feathery Features of Leila Jeffreys’ Perfectly Posed Birds
Those of us who’ve been party to an awkward family photoshoot or embarrassing school picture have reason to feel envious of the birds Leila Jeffreys (previously) photographs. From a pair of stoic b...
Leila Jeffreys’ Winged Portraits
“My dad had a Pentax Spotmatic 35mm film camera. He was a keen photographer, and we traveled a lot overseas. That early memory must have sparked an interest and I took up photography. For me it was...
Behind the breathtaking design of the new Hermès Sydney Flagship
Time-honoured craftsmanship and peerless attention to detail – it’s what to expect from any Hermès piece and the French leather specialist’s incredible new flagship store in the centre of Sydney i...
2020 Bowness Photography Prize | 60 finalists
Monash Gallery of Art (MGA), on behalf of the MGA Foundation, has announced the shortlisted finalists for the 2020 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize. The judging panel – comprised of a...
Hermes' new Sydney flagship has one impressive staircase
Art, too, is key to the Hermès universe, and an opportunity for the past to meet the present, and for France to meet Australia. Two equestrian portraits from the Emile Hermès collection sit among t...
Bergdorf Goodman's Discreet New Café is a Culinary Gem
Brought to life by BG’s in-house design team, the space boasts a rich, moody color palette accompanied by Art Deco elements that pay homage to the building’s architecture. Tying Goodman’s Bar’s chi...
Exhibition of New Works by Australian Photographic Artist Leila Jeffreys opens at Olsen Gruin
“There exists a symbolic relationship between birds and trees,” says Leila Jeffreys. “Their survival depends on each other. We depend on them. High Society serves as a visual reminder to leave wild...
It’s been a devastating month for the east coast of Australia. Bushfires fueled by wind and long-term drought conditions have spread across Queensland and New South Wales — the latter losing at lea...
With her striking portraits of birds like the Bleeding Heart Dove, Leila Jeffreys turns her lens to the urgent plight and eccentric personalities of the world’s birds.
High Society by Leila Jeffreys
A series that explores the close, symbiotic bond between birds and trees. Following the Budgerigar series, which also became her first solo exhibition in Australia, photographic artist Leila Jeffre...
Turning Bird Photography into Fine Art
Leila Jeffreys is a fine art photographer famous for her Australian bird portraits. Rather than capturing her motives in the outdoors she brings them into a photo studio environment and creates tru...
Birds of a green and yellow feather flock together in artistic glory
Leila Jeffreys’ ethereal images required 300 budgies, 20kg of birdseed and painting the birds’ toenails Jeffreys, 47, has made a career photographing birds. But her work is a far cry from nature ph...
Leila Jeffreys ‘High Society’ Photography Exhibition
Australian contemporary photographer Leila Jeffreys presents her latest nature-inspired works, ‘High Society’, the result of almost five years of planning. Having documented birds since 2008, the n...
Living colour: the intricacy and beauty of budgies - in pictures
Leila Jeffreys started photographing birds in 2008. In this series she takes the birds out of their natural habitat, and by stripping the environment back to the bare minimum and using neutral back...
Flock To The New Exhibition From ‘Bird Nerd’ Leila Jeffreys!
Leila Jeffreys is celebrated for her evocative and striking portraits of owls, cockatoos, hawks, eagles and kestrels, but for her upcoming show, High Society, she has returned to a childhood favour...
In her first Australian solo exhibition in five years, 'High Society', Leila Jeffreys explores new territory. Releasing over 300 budgerigars into her studio, Jeffreys has documented this 'society' ...
Flying high with bird photographer Leila Jeffreys
For Leila Jeffreys, emotional connection isn’t reserved for humans. It’s a currency that flows between creatures who share the natural world. The artist, 47, has spent the last decade taking portra...
Bird Nerd: The Art of Leila Jeffreys
This intimate portrait follows beloved Australian bird photographer Leila Jeffreys' childhood in the Australian bush, through the grief of losing her father to her first exhibition in New York.
Renowned bird photographer Leila Jeffreys dedicates new exhibition to the budgie
THE STORY OF the Australian budgerigar is one of the most striking visual statements on how humans have played a determining role in evolution. A two-coloured bird that was native to Australia and ...