ABOUT

Leigh Bowser
Textile Artist & Educator

MA Illustration – Falmouth University, 2023
BA (hons) Textile Crafts – Huddersfield University, 2012

Leigh (pronounced ‘Lee’, pronouns she/her) is a Leeds based textile artist and educator. Her use of textiles is rooted within the emotional connections we have with cloth, utilising this connection as a vehicle for storytelling and activism.

In 2012, she started ‘The Blood Bag Project’, a craftivist project that aims to raise awareness of the rare blood condition Diamond Blackfan Anaemia, which her young niece, Chloe, was born with. 

Leigh is currently working on the the development of a children’s picture book about the experience of a stem cell transplant from Chloe’s perspective. Through cute characters and embroidered illustrations, she aim’s to make the potentially scary topic easier to digest, a theme that runs throughout much of her person textile work.