Leah Evangelista Woolner is a Filipina-Canadian visual artist and community organizer. Her artistic practice explores themes of belonging, desire, storytelling, and relationships with the natural world through painting, mixed media collage, and video installation. Leah continues to (un)learn and be inspired by her relationships with diasporic communities and interspecies beings. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Concordia University (2012) and lives in Montreal.
Her project explores the materials, symbols, and imagery of woven textiles from the Philippines. Through her artistic practice, she is curious about the embodied practices, cultural memory, and ecological relationships illustrated through the content and materials of these fabrics.