Leila Walter is a South African artist and designer working across fine art and functional textiles.
Her work is a meditation on the ability of cloth to hold and be held, a medium both intimate and immense.
Murmuration, 2025. 'Stratum' Series
ARTWORKS
A practice grounded in abstract textile collages and tapestries, constructed slowly using gathered natural, vintage and remnant textiles.
This work is inspired by layered landscapes and historical forms and is a meditation on the abilty of material to hold, reflect and transform our experience.
Golden Harvest, 2026. 'Parachute' Series
TEXTILES
To hold close and feel held by.
Crafted with care for richly layered, tactile environments
that you will love to live in.
New Works - Spring 2026
The Artist
I work with cloth to think about what it means to be human and how we engage with the material world.
Using natural fibres and collected remnants, I work through slow, considered processes of weaving, stitching and joining by hand. The precision is not incidental: it is what allows intuition to emerge, a rhythm of control and release. These processes are acts of care and of listening, gestures that build upon one another, reflecting our relationship with our environment, one another, ourselves, and with time itself.
Each piece becomes a tactile archive, holding the memory of touch and time. An invitation to notice sensation, to linger and to inhabit the world with feeling.
- Leila Walter
