Emmanuel Leon
Art Forms
Drawing, Illustration, Mixed media, Multi-disciplinary, Painting
Biography
Emmanuel León is a Peruvian anthropologist, multidisciplinary artist, and writer based in High Wycombe. He holds an MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a BA in Social Anthropology with Human Rights from the University of Essex. His practice sits at the intersection of anthropology, decolonial methodology, and arts-based research.
Working under the name The Little Hut Studio, León creates oil pastel works that draw on alchemical and mythic frameworks, using motifs of composting, decay, and transformation to explore questions of becoming, liminality, and the more-than-human world. His recent series include The Guardian, To Compost the Rot, and The Marriage of Rot.
Alongside his studio practice, León works across the museum and heritage sector, currently serving as Web Officer for the Museum Ethnographers Group and Head of Digital Communications for Museum Detox.