Leila Galloway is a Cornwall-based artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, and sound. Her recent work investigates the tension between projection and presence, memory and material. In projects such as Homage to All the Men I’ve Ever Loved – Especially Barry, Whom I’ve Never Met (Backline West, Redruth, 2025), she constructs figures of absence and longing, exploring the space between place and form. Recent exhibitions include SECOND HAND — Part One and Part Two, works extracted from a Redruth charity shop and re-presented at Auction House (2026), Redruth; In-a-gadda-da-vida at Auction House, Redruth, 2025, with Venezuelan conceptual artist Eugenio Espinoza; Letting Out the Slack with Isaak Johnson (Stick Figure & Sons, Redruth, 2025); Hebaska (The Fly Cellars, Newquay, 2024); In the Thick of Things (APT Gallery, Deptford, London, 2024); and Sound Solid Liquid Light, a collaborative installation with SJ Blackmore, Naomi Frears, and Alice Mahoney (Two Queens, Leicester, 2024).
Leila Galloway is a contemporary sculpture and installation artist with roots in Edinburgh’s art scene, where she co-founded and co-ran Gallery 44 between 1987 and 1991. Her work explores the tension between attraction and friction, and the relationship between materials and place. Galloway studied Sculpture at Manchester Polytechnic and the Slade School of Art, London, and completed a Higher Diploma in Aesthetics and Art Theory at Kingston University. She has exhibited widely in independent spaces and museums nationally and internationally.
Hebaska is a mutable, site-responsive installation of sheer suspended forms that fluctuate with air, light, and movement, inviting a heightened awareness of space and embodied presence. It is an immersive field of green where material, biological, and sensory processes converge to induce a bodily shift. The only condition is that the panels must be securely fixed to immovable architectural points. The final configuration is determined on-site by architecture, airflow, and movement.