Northern Nature
Some creatives arrive at their practice through discipline. Others, through instinct. For the Sydney-raised, Northern Rivers-based photographer Ming Nomchong, her calling has always been the latter: a pull towards light, open space, water and the quiet frequency of coastal life.
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Slow season
Moments of togetherness ebb and flow throughout the year, and what follows often calls for a gentler, more unhurried rhythm. Here, we’ve gathered a selection of partner stays — ocean-facing, mountain-bound, deep in the bush, or tucked into rolling countryside — to inspire your own summer retreat.
Image credit: Natalie McComas
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Abstract form
At LEIF, collaboration is a way of seeing anew — uncovering fresh perspectives on the forms and materials around us. Each year, our Holiday Collection becomes a meeting point between art and design, where botanicals are reframed through different creative minds. More than seasonal keepsakes, these limited editions are experiments in perspective, inviting our community to see the familiar anew.
For 2025, we turned to the Sydney-based artist and typographer Mark Gowing, whose vision moves fluidly between visual abstraction, language and form.
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Light language
For Ingvar Kenne, light is more than exposure. It carries character – reactive, alive. It creates atmosphere, shapes tone. And it introduces resistance: the kind of necessary friction that slows you down, asks you to look again. Through Kenne’s lens light softens, sharpens, conceals and reveals, and gives an otherwise stationary sculpture its mood.
Best known for his evocative portraiture in CITIZEN — since 1995 and ongoing — he has lately turned his lens to landscape in a portrait of [country], a study in presence and place. We invited Kenne to turn his attentive eye to the National Gallery of Australia, capturing our National Sculpture Garden Limited Edition Gift Sets.
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