Leah Ann Early is a contemporary collage artist and teacher based on the South Coast of NSW. Her work speaks with the dialogue of colour, shape and movement, paintings without a drop of paint. Using 1960s and 70s publications to source paper, Leah celebrates the richness of vintage pigmentation and renews the ephemera to create a tangible, touchable story of softness in motion.
Get in touch with Leah at hello@leahannearly.com
Exhibitions
Inside This Box (Finalist), The Corner Store Gallery, 2024, Orange, NSW
Grammar Art Show, Toowoomba Grammar School, 2024, Toowoomba, QLD
Coloured Glasses (solo exhibition) Frame & Brush, Far South Coast, 2023, NSW
The Every Day, The Corner Store Gallery, 2023, Orange, NSW
Little Things (Finalist), Saint Cloche, 2023, Paddington/Sydney, NSW
Grammar Art Show, Toowoomba Grammar School, 2023, Toowoomba, QLD
Sydney Collage Society, The Other Art Fair (Barangaroo), 2022, Sydney, NSW
Pulling Shapes, Brunswick Street Gallery, 2022, Melbourne, VIC
Mixed Business, Omni, 2022, Austinmer, NSW
Small Works, Gallery Independent, 2022, Clovelly (Sydney), NSW
Little Things (Finalist), Saint Cloche, 2021, Paddington/Sydney, NSW
Contemporary Collage, The New England Regional Art Museum, 2019, Armidale, NSW
Leisure Coast, Thirroul Gallery 2019, Thirroul, NSW
Inner, Ellery Gallery 2018, Paddington, NSW
Brooklyn Vs Sydney II, Chinatown Soup Gallery 2017, Chinatown, NYC
Cut It Out! 2, Goodspace Gallery 2017, Chippendale, NSW
Sydney Collage Society, Academy Xi 2016, Surry Hills, NSW
Cut It Out!, Lowroad Garage 2015, Paddington, NSW
Sydney Collage Society, Bootsdarling 2015, Darlinghurst, NSW
South Darling (solo exhibition), Bootsdarling 2015, Darlinghurst, NSW
Brooklyn Vs Sydney, M2 Gallery 2015, Surry Hills, NSW
Publications
Contemporary Collage Magazine, interview feature, November 2022
Marie Claire Magazine, editorial collage illustrations (reoccurring), 2020 - 2023
Women’s Health, Editorial collage illustration, June 2020 issue
Coal Coast Magazine, Editorial collage illustration (reoccurring), 2018 - 2020
Kaleido Magazine, Sydney Collage Society feature, June 2015
Projects
Artist - Singles & Album artwork (reoccurring), The M1 2020 - 2021
Featured Artist - Coogee Bay Hotel / Murrah commissions, Studio Isgro, 2020
Collage Memory game, Featured artist, BIS Publishing 2018
Champion Blues - Single artwork, Lady Lyon 2018
Class facilitator, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney 2016 & Workshop, Redfern 2017
Product – Brand label artwork, SupLuv 2016
Festival artist – Poster artwork/media, The Farmer & the Owl Festival 2015
Artist – BioCup Art Series, Australia/New Zealand 2015
Artist/collaborator, Video imagery, The Walking Who 2014
Finalist/Awards
Finalist, Inside This Box Art Prize, 2023
Finalist, Little Things Art Prize, 2021, 2023
Finalist, Festival artwork, Sydney Film Festival 2016