//Artist Bio

(b. 1977) lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

Leah Johnson is a textile artist and practising architect — two fortuitously aligned vocations. Working with fibre, weaving and layering, she builds textured compositions of bold form and dynamic perspective. Their sensibility nods to the early modernists she so admires: Barragán, Corb, Niemeyer, Doshi, Khan, Correa.

Her architectural philosophy is driven by a deceptively simple ambition: to craft moments of joy within the built space, where the occupant feels simultaneously elevated and grounded. It is this quality — elusive & deeply human — that she looks for in her textile work too.

Abstraction distils form to its essence, creating artworks as threshold: inviting the viewer to step forward and find their own interpretations within. In Leah’s works, spatial relations are both flattened and expanded, creating an intriguing paradox: complex simplicity.

// Selected exhibitions

2024 - Scarborough Centre, Group Exhibition
2025 - Music: Artpoint, Group Exhibition
Artpoint Collective: Kamers, Group Exhibition
The Blues: Artpoint, Group Exhibition
Open Studios Kommetjie
2026 - Quiet Geometry: RK Contemporary, Group Exhibition
Off The Wall: OSK Kommetjie, Group Exhibition Innovative Threads II: RK Contemporary, Group Exhibition Walk Out To Winter: 131A Gallery, Group Exhibition