After leaving Canberra Leigh moved to Cairns working as freelance designer for two years with a national media-marketing agency based out of Canberra. Following this short time as a freelance designer he was the recipient of an Australia Council Fellowship award to develop and implement PR and media activities for Apunipima Cape York Health Council and Cape York Land Council alongside Noel Pearson. The one-year fellowship awarded to him by the Federal Government lead him into an organisational environmental where he enjoyed working with the communities of Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait, where he stayed for the next 9 years.
During his time at Cape York Land Council he was instrumental in the production of Far North Queensland first Indigenous newspaper as well as campaigns for the Wik people fight. Having almost spent 10 years working with Cape York Land Council as Communications Officer, Leigh decided to establish ingeous multimedia studios in 2002 as an independent business. To date ingeous studios has developed and designed major local campaign and initiatives in Far North Queensland and also provides design and multimedia production services to the Hitnet, the Australian Human Right Commission, Koorimail, Queensland Department of Health, NTSCorp, United Nations, Korean Air and many more.
With a keen understanding of the issues faced by Australia's hard to reach Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples in urban and remote locations he has developed unique methods to distribute and engage people in these locations through mobile content delivery. Presently Leigh is working on the establishment of Blackvine Media Group, an Indigenous mobile distribution agency that will deliver interactive mobile content throughout Indigenous Australia. Implementation of this mobile distribution of content has already been ground tested with Cairns organisations Wuchopperen Medical Service and Mookai Rosie Bi-Bayan in which these organisations run their own local campaigns for for special events and activities.
