NICK LEARY

BRUMBIES OF AUSTRALIA

FEBRUARY 11 - 22 2016

Nick Leary is an internationally acclaimed Fine Art and Commercial photographer whose work has taken him to the most remote corners of the world. With a career behind the lens spanning over twenty years, Leary commenced his professional career in New York, where he expeditiously became one of the most sort after photographers in his field, shooting for high profile fashion publications and clientele including Vogue, GQ, Giorgio Armani, Moet Hennessy, Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman and Miranda Kerr, to name a few.

Leary’s starting point for developing a contemporary art career in photography was born during a month long trip to Titkikala, a remote indigenous community near Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory. It was here that Leary researched the history of the Aboriginal Dreamtime, being taught by an Elder. Fascinated by the culture and heritage of the indigenous people and their natural soulful spirit and respect of the land, Leary was determined to capture this raw beauty and emotion within his work. Leary’s first exhibition titled ‘Soul of the

Titjikala Colourful’ was unveiled later that year (2005) at Sotheby’s in Sydney. Motivated by a natural affinity for nature and wildlife; in addition to his adventurous spirit and fasciation with all things intricate and unusual, Leary‘s passion for contemporary art photography evolved as he embarked on journeys further across the unforgiving terrains of the Australian Outback. It is here that his ‘Celebrate Australia’ collection was born.

Using valiant imagery to captivate his audience with each photographic feast, this collection showcase complex beauty, bravery and freedom in its rawest form. His most recent collection ‘Wild Brumbies of Australia’, explores the iconic Australian Brumbies that roam in the harshest environments in the Australian Outback. To Leary, the Brumby symbolizes “freedom and rawness” and “The Spirit of Australia” which he can share with the rest of the world via his collections. ‘Brumby’, Nick Leary’s much anticipated first monograph was released in Novemebr 2015 and boasts some of Leary’s most prized untamed imagery from this collection.

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