Leah M. Bowie (they/them) is a Sri Lankan–Swiss interdisciplinary artist and writer based between Switzerland and London.

Their work crystallized from a background in writing, technology, and lived cross-cultural experience. It unfolds at the intersections of memory, identity, ecology, and alternative epistemologies, moving fluidly across performance, sound, illustration, digital cartographies, and language.

With a professional background in journalism, Leah brings narrative precision and a sensitivity to language to their artistic research. Their practice resists linearity and certainty, creating membranes of encounter – screens, translucent walls, zines, and scores – that hold partial truths, diasporic grief, and speculative narratives. These works offer glimpses of what slips beyond language or remains unspoken, crafting spaces where fragmented knowing can exist without being forced into coherence.

Current projects include:

• Achiamma (launched 2025) – a digital grief map tracing diasporic memory and colonial legacy
• Dis-Place (launched 2024) – a performance archive of lived fragments and artefacts
• Discrimination (exhibited 2025) – commission for the Festival of Cultures (Bern, 2025)

Leah’s academic background spans Computer Science, Environmental Science, and Asian Studies, alongside postgraduate training in Creative Writing, Creative Methods, and Creation & Scenario in Music at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Their research explores feminist and diasporic methodologies, ecological and non-extractive listening, and digital cartographies of care.

Download Leah’s portfolio here.