Welcome to Leighton Contemporary.

A boutique contemporary art gallery and art consultancy representing dynamic emerging and mid-career artists based in Australia and New Zealand. .

Pictured: Ming Nomchong — ‘Sola Cola ‘(2025) — Composition of 2 Original Hand Printed Silver Gelatin Prints — 25.5 cm x 17.7 cm (Artwork Size), 37 cm x 42 cm (Framed Size)

Exhibition Schedule, 2025

Sarah Darling, Clare Dubina, Jordy Hewitt and Christopher Jewitt — ‘A Gentle Unfolding’

— From 5 September, 2025

“Together, Darling, Dubina, Hewitt and Jewitt demonstrate that unfolding, whether of perception, form, or meaning, is not always immediate. It is a gentle process of movement between states: from closeness to distance, from gesture to refinement, from the seen to the sensed. In this space, detail and abstraction are not at odds, but two expressions of a shared language.”

Opening night — Friday 5 September, 2025 from 5 to 8 pm
Exhibition runs to — Friday 26 September, 2025

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Michelle Wilkin — ‘SALT’

— From 10 July, 2025

“Inspired by the call of the coast, this series explores our deep, instinctive connection to the sea – its rhythms, its energy, and its calming stillness. Like the sea, each piece captures a fleeting moment – here one second, washed over the next. A visual journal of life's ebbs and flows: the calm before the storm, and the quiet wisdom that follows.” - Michelle Wilkin

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Lucy Hersey — ‘Shadeseeker’

— From 26 July, 2025

“As most of Southern Australia currently grapples with drought, we on our farm are no different - experiencing the first hand pressures of living on the land in a changing climate. Instead of looking out to the cloudless horizon and uncharacteristically brown hills of our local landscape, I have found myself seeking out enclosed places of solitude, pushing deeper in to the bush, wandering the gullies and looking more closely at the activities happening closer to the ground; turning over leaves and logs, digging and investigating the soil.” - Lucy Hersey

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Ming Nomchong — ‘Sea Foam In My Eyes’ — From 1 July, 2025

Nomchong’s latest body of work explores the delicate interplay between the minute and the monumental elements of our oceanic environments.

Nomchong turns her gaze to the hypnotic language of tides and textures; sea creatures, velvet currents, blurred reflections, human form.

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Amy Wright — ‘Sunbleached Eden’

— From 5 June, 2025

In ‘Sunbleached Eden’, Wright explores the tension between fragility and endurance in landscapes shaped by heat, scarcity, and improvisation; gardens caught in the in-between, both dying and blooming, suspended in the shimmering stillness of high sun.

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Paige Northwood and Skye Jamieson — ‘promise paintings’

— From May 23, 2025

‘promise paintings’ is a collaborative exhibition by Skye Jamieson and Paige Northwood, exploring movement, mark making, and the quiet complexities of relationship.

Rooted in embodied practice, the works speak to connection—between the artists, materials, and the viewer—and the subtle conversations that unfold through paint.

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Miranda Hampson — ‘Cultural Flows’

— From February 17, 2025

“I am of Aboriginal descent (Anaiwan). I am the great-granddaughter of Joan Jones (nee Richardson), whose mother was Annie Murray, an Aboriginal woman born at Nundle, NSW. I am recognised as part of the Aboriginal community at Uralla (oorala - meeting place/camp - where people come together). My totem is the echidna. I am currently practicing on Dharawal Country.”

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Sarah Darling — First Release of 2025 Works

— From March 19, 2025

Darling’s painting practice involves working with colour and abstract forms, often in large scale works. She creates intuitively and her projects are often material-led. They are as much about process as they are about outside inspiration.

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