Leah King-Smith is a Bigambul descendant, visual artist and lecturer in the School of Creative Practice QUT, Brisbane, Australia. Born in 1957 in Gympie, Queensland. King-Smiths 1991 series Patterns of Connection is widely recognised and has been exhibited both in Australia and overseas.

King-Smith utilises a traditional photograph printmaking process to create her unique artworks. Using mostly found images from national archives, she layers multiple negatives on top of each other, then includes images of her own landscape photography and re-photographs them to create her final artworks. As seen here in "Untitled #7", the rich, earthy tones and textures, blended with the strong indigenous woman represent a unity between a culture and the land it came from.

King-Smith’s art explores the way in which photography was used to document indigenous people after the arrival of the Europeans. By combining archival images of her people with her own landscape images she is returning them to the land. Her use of multiple images overlaid into single artworks evokes a dream like quality, at odds with the singular focus intended of many of the original photographs. By producing these artworks she not only attempts to make sense of the disruption to her culture by the arrival of the Europeans, but also to reclaim the images taken by reframing them in a more culturally appropriate narrative.