As Lesham washes her hands, the water running through her fingers prompts reflection on the symbolism of water that can guard, or dissolve social barriers or forge brand new connections.
Gal Leshem
Gal Leshem is a London based artist with a socially engaged practice. Her work centres around the significance of history and collective memory within the construction of local identities. In 2017, Gal was an artist in residence at Tate Modern and Tate Britain School Workshop Programme. In 2017-18 she was part of Up Projects’ Constellations, a research and development programme for artists working in community contexts. Gal’s recent exhibitions and projects include Broadway Gallery (Letchworth 2019), Jerusalem Film Festival, T J Boulting (London), CCA Video Greenhouse at Fresh Paint Fair (Tel Aviv), APT Gallery (London), White House Dagenham (London), Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Block 336, (London), The Israeli Centre for Digital Art, (Holon, Israel), Water Tower Art Fest (Sofia), Flat Time House, (London), Mostyn/Agore, Mostyn (Wales), Baltic (Newcastle). She graduated from Goldsmiths University with a joint First Class Hons BA in Fine Art & Art History in 2016 and is currently undertaking her MA Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Art.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey