We are thrilled to announce that Gal Leshem is the 2023 recipient of SPACE/New Contemporaries Studio Award 2023. 

“Receiving the studio bursary is an incredible opportunity for me right now. It will allow me the space to develop a new body of work with weeds as its protagonists. I hope to focus on printmaking with foraged materials as ink and realise a couple of book projects that have been slowly simmering. Having the space for a full year allows for this to be a seasonal and place-based endeavour, one which – for a migrant artist who’s also a mother now – is both an act of rooting down and a questioning of the notion of roots.” Gal Leshem

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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. Her work has been shown at: Christie’s, Untitled Art Miami beach, Photo Paris, Huxley-Parlour Gallery (solo), San Mei Gallery, The Nunnery, Broadway Gallery, Jerusalem Film Festival, T J Boulting, APT Gallery, CCA Video Greenhouse at Fresh Paint Fair Tel Aviv. Gal completed her MA at the Slade School of Art and has a joint Hons BA in Fine Art & Art History from Goldsmiths University.