Léa Marais is a visual artist working with photography and printmaking. She is interested in how images change through repetition, reproduction, and time, and how memory and experience shape how we see them.
Moving between abstraction and figuration, her work often starts with familiar images, which she layers, repeats or transforms to reveal something different.
With a background in computer vision and psychology, she previously worked with images in scientific research. Her artistic practice takes a different approach, exploring what images can suggest rather than what they can explain.
She is also interested in how technology shapes how images are made, shared, and understood. Her work encourages us to look more closely, notice unexpected details and make our own connections between images, people, places and moments in time.
Selected Exhibitions
2026 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK - forthcoming
2026 Silt, Silver, Shadows - Apparatus Gallery, London, UK (ArtHub London) - forthcoming
2026 Cessation - LumiNoir Art Gallery, London, UK (LumiNoir)
2026 Derby Print Open - Banks Mill Studios, Derby, UK (Green Door Printmaking Studio)
2026 Anarchy Global Exhibitions, Japan/France/Italy/UK (Ephemere Tokyo)
2025 Festival of Print - Art Pavilion Mile End, London, UK (East London Printmakers)
Awards and Residencies
2026 Imprint Art Fair Discovery Open Call - Final shortlisted artist; selected for Director’s Cut
2026 ArtHub residency, London, UK
2026 La Maldita Estampa residency, Barcelona, Spain
Collaborations
2025 Album and single artwork design - Sunlight Echoes by Whitelands (Sonic Cathedral Records)
2025 East London Printmakers Box Set (contributing artist)
Publications
2026 Substratum, Unstaged
2026 Northern European Landscapes, Soft Publishing
2026 Color of Noise Photobook, Ephemere Tokyo , presented at Kyotographie Photobook Fair, Kyoto, Japan
2026 ANARCHY Nº3 Photobook, Ephemere Tokyo