Works in textile exploring memory and material through making
Working with natural fibres, reclaimed fabrics, and textile waste, I create woven and assembled pieces that investigate the life cycle of material and the histories it holds. Tracing its journey from earth and back to it - through production, use and disposal - I explore the possibility for transformation through repair and reconstitution.
Through processes of mending, repairing, layering and intuitive piecing, my work reflects on what cloth holds: memory, labour, care and the passage of time. These material histories are brought into dialogue with natural systems through metaphor of erosion, accumulation and impact of intention materialising over time.
The resulting works offer a quiet but powerful presence, shifting the felt experience of the spaces that hold it, while inviting deeper reflection on our relationship to material, environment and memory.
Cape Town, South Africa
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![An image of 'Vertical Contact' from the series 'In Contact']()
Holding Patterns
a body of work shaped by the idea of the container: the frame, the edge, the boundary that allows something to be held.
Using salvaged cloth, I have been thinking about cycles of desire, accumulation, disposal and contemplating the speed at which materials move through our lives, alongside a slower, geological sense of time. Layers of fabric begin to echo sediment, where fragments are compressed, preserved, and transformed. In this way, the work moves between the fleeting and the enduring.
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![an image of 'Parachute in silk' an original artwork from the 'parachute' series]()
Textile Collages
A series of hand-pieced works using vintage and remnant fabrics, guided by touch, intuition, and material response. As fragments are brought together, new relationships unfold—shifting energy, establishing balance, and revealing how cohesion can arise through difference.
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![An image of 'colourfield in sulphur' an artwork from the 'Field' Series.]()
Mohair Panels
A collection of handwoven panels using handspun and dyed mohair, wool, silk, and cotton. Framed as textile fields, the works invite a tuning into subtle vibration and presence—drawing on the legacy of abstract colour field painting to explore silence, simplicity, and resonance through reduced form.
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![an image of 'Days of Heaven' an original work by Leila Walter in the series 'Tapestry']()
Animal Fibre Tapestries
These handwoven works arise from an intuitive engagement with the natural fibres— of wool and mohair. Each piece unfolds through the rhythm of weaving, allowing material, hand, and space to converse, yet always subtly referring to the expanse of the landscape from which the fibre comes, and through which it is metabolised. Freely suspended, they are meditations on craft, presence, and the subtle relationships that emerge through making.
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![An image of a work from the series 'Stratum']()
Salvage Tapestries
A series of handwoven tapestries formed from textile waste and natural fibres, examining how time, use, disposal and desire accumulate in material—revealing parallels between cloth, landscape, and geological strata
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![A close up of 'Al dente' a tapestry woven by hand using cotton, silk and palm fibre]()
Plant Fibre Tapestries
A series of tapestries woven by hand using natural plant fibres, including cotton, ilala palm and vintage linen yarn. They are subtle reflections on material, on the integrity and softness of plant matter
