On Becoming a Habitat by Gal Leshem

On Becoming a Habitat by multi-disciplinary artist Gal Leshem contains 40 abstract ink drawings that capture the fluid internal landscape of early motherhood, as well as a written text unfolding through the pages. The original drawings were created using ink made with foraged weeds, and each cover is hand dyed with natural materials. 

Product Information

Edition of 12
42 pages
12 x 20 cm
printed on Japanese Inbe paper
Hand dyed and binded

About the Artist

Gal Leshem is a London based artist and facilitator. Her work is developed through a site specific and research-based approach, often engaging with heritage sites, objects and plants embedded in myth, memory and folklore.

Gal has won the New Contemporaries x SPACE Studio Bursary in 2023 and the Sarabande Emerging Artist prize in 2022. In 2021 she had a studio residency at Gasworks gallery in London and was commissioned an edition of prints. In 2017-18 she was part of Up Projects' Constellations, a research and development programme for artists working in community contexts. In 2017 she was artist in residence at Tate Modern and Tate Britain School Workshop Programme. She graduated from Goldsmiths University with a joint First Class Hons BA in Fine Art & Art History in 2016 and completed an MA Fine-Art Media at Slade School of Art in 2022.

Her work has been recently shown at: David Zwirner (London 2024), Christie's (London 2022), Untitled Art (Miami Beach 2021), Photo Paris (2021), Huxley-Parlour Gallery (solo, London 2021), San Mei Gallery (London 2020), Visions at the Nunnery, Bow Arts (London 2020).