Leila Jeffreys: Nature is Not a Place to Visit. It is Home.

Highly acclaimed Australian artist, Leila Jeffreys’ work focuses on diversity within bird species. Through her photographic process she can enlarge them, or slow them down, allowing us to inspect them in detail - getting much closer than possible in real life. This exhibition features the photographic series Ornithurae - a selection of 15 portraits of native pigeons and doves from across Australia and New Guinea printed to human scale; and a multi-channel digital video work entitled Nature Is Not A Place To Visit. It Is Home - featuring budgerigars filmed in extreme slow motion. All works were donated by the artist to the Western Plains Cultural Centre collection in 2020, through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.