Lea Colombo

Lea Colombo is a self-taught South African artist, photographer, and designer who works across mediums like sculpture, painting, and print.

Work

Biography

Lea Colombo (b. 1993, Cape Town, South Africa) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice explores Lea Colombo (b. 1993, Cape Town, South Africa) is a collectible design through semi-precious stone, sculpture, and multidisciplinary artist working across photography, material research. Working predominantly with Red Jasper, sculpture, and collectible design. Rooted in intuition, Sodalite, Rose Quartz, Tiger’s Eye, and other natural stones her work explores colour, light, and form as living sourced from Southern Africa, Colombo creates sculptural energies — bridging the physical and the spiritual furniture and objects that investigate balance, geometry, weight, through immersive, sensory environments. and vibration.

Rooted in an intuitive yet materially driven approach, and glass, she translates vibration into sculptural and her work transforms raw geological material into refined functional objects that explore balance, connection, collectible forms through polished surfaces, stacked and transformation. compositions, and architectural structures. Drawing from themes of connection, grounding, and spatial harmony, her pieces exist.

In 2026, she collaborated with WE ARE ONA during between functional design and sculpture — emphasizing both the Art Basel Hong Kong, creating an immersive, colour- physical presence and energetic qualities of stone. driven dining scenography that brought together art, design, and hospitality as a unified spatial experience.

Central to Colombo’s practice is an ongoing exploration of colour, form, and repetition, often expressed through recurring geometric motifs and modular systems that translate natural material into contemporary sculptural language. Working between Cape Town and Milan, Colombo’s practice sits at the intersection of collectible design, sculpture, and contemporary material exploration.