LEA CELIK SOMMERSETH SHAW (ISIK) CREATIVE DIRECTOR, CULTURAL ENTREPRENEUR

Lea is a multilingual Mediterranean-origin mum born in Smyrna and grew up in Gothenburg, an independent cultural entrepreneur and creative director who works with different geopolitical language-focused cultural and philanthropic projects and ventures. Growing up in Sweden, where her extended family is settled through generations, her NGO YS Trust is dedicated to her brother she found after her peace philosophy studies at Galtung Institute. Philosophy is the bridge that connects science to creativity for Lea and an important part of her works. Growing up to Fellinis Roma during her student time in Lund, she held conversations with its local Anita on Rome, Fellini, and Marcello. After studies on Hasselblad and encounter with Bergman during his Mary Queen of Scots production, both followers of Tarkovsky, the cinematic philosopher, Lea wrote works on Nietzsche Altermankind terminology, some outlined in her forthcoming book The Philosophical Library, herself a pilgrim follows fragments of Abrahamism and Buddhism.

From Philosophy, Theology, and Philanthropy, the fourth cornerstone of Creativity is the tool that Lea designs her projects and ventures with, all autobiographical based on her and her history. After Hasselblad and Gallery management studies at Birkbeck, she held various independent cultural projects and ventures in Brick Lane, including the music venture Cargo Cult and the literature project Britanniarum. During the pandemic, she was in contact with Peter Beard on Verushka and ”еловек с киноааратом” Man With A Movie Camera by the Vertov brothers; they originally scheduled exhibitions together in London, which was neglected by Najma Beard. Lea later reorganized this for Beards Kenya students, and when she was promoting an exhibition with Galerie De Buci 2022 in Saint Germain Des Pres, Lea’s kid was involved in political misconduct. Lea has postponed all her cultural works in France and is focusing on her independent NGO, YS Trust Universal Jurisdiction Channel project since being in contact with countless law firms in France and the UK for political misconduct her kid has been in France since 27 January 2023.

PHILANTHROPIC WORKS

YS Trust is dedicated to her brothers Sehmuz and Yesmin Morales. YS Trust is an independent project-based human rights organization that promotes peace through philosophy, theology and philanthropy. One of the projects has been to propose to international authorities to establish an open and direct universal jurisdiction channel for civilians to have direct access to human rights policymakers across borders. Lea researches Philosophy, Theology and as a former student of Peace and Conflict Studies with Johan Galtung the Philosophy of Peace is indicated in YS Trust

ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS

Lea is working through her NGO YS Trsut to set up a fund for reforestation through philanthropy and landscape architecture, protect and preserve flora and fauna in urban and rural places, its an Independent project part of YS Trust.

CULTURAL ENTREPRENEUR WORKS

As an Independent Cultural Entrepreneur, Creative designer and creative director, Lea has had several independent projects and ventures since Birkbeck. Through her freelance works in Brick Lane, Notting Hill, Kensington and Chelsea, YS Trust, Cargo Culture, and Paris Jardin Luxembourg Scouts.

CULTURAL WORKS

Lea is an independent cultural entrepreneur and works in different fields as an independent worker, entrepreneur, curator, and creative director. Her works are creative processes focused on cultural designs and mainly based on her and her child’s origins from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean, Greek and expanding to Chinese, Japanese. Lea's works are creative designs based on her research on philosophy, historical. theological and philanthropic ideologies are included in the design process of her projects and ventures, LI INC as all her other her works and Independent Cultural Conglomerate on hold as she is looking for an official representing the country to launch her works.

Images Top: Self-portraits with her kid William in London and their vacation neighbourhoods Saint Germain Des Pres 2022. ©Lea Celik Sommerseth Shaw

Image Below: Self portrait at Paris Expo Spring 2023 © Lea Celik Sommerseth Shaw