• Lea-Anne Sheather’s current practice involves creating 2D and 3D textile, drawn and collaged art. These works include highly detailed fabrications that depict an imaginary construct called Island of Woo. The artworks  explore the wonder within nature and the unguarded, transcendent moments she has with the natural world which she interplays with personal and imaginary narratives. She pays close attention to details, which she describes as being like mini landscapes. Sheather describes how even the smallest of space can teem with exuberant layers of life. Island of Woo is a visual depiction for her imagining of lively, interactive connectivity on Earth.

• Sheather has won and been a finalist in several art awards within Aotearoa New Zealand, including the Miles Art Award 2014 (Supreme winner), the Parkin Art Award 2022 (Highly Commended), the Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award 2019 (Highly Commended winner) as well as a finalist in the Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award, and Rotorua Museum Art Award

• Sheather is an art teacher and runs private art classes in her studio

• She has exhibited within New Zealand and abroad and her work is held in several private collections including the Wallace and Parkin collections

• Fibre work, drawing, collage and painting are her preferred mediums

• Sheather completed a Master of Fine Art (1st class honors) in 2014

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