Bundanon beauty

Founded in 1994, Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) has established itself as a significant and innovative reference point in Australian architecture and urban design. The practice focus is on architecture as a civic endeavour with an emphasis on user experience and enjoyment of place.

LEIF partner venue Bundanon is a clear expression of KTA’s values — architecture shaped by place, purpose, people, and sustainability. We caught up with KTA Director and Principal Kerstin Thompson to discuss her design approach to the creation of Bundanon Art Museum and The Bridge.

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.

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.