blue and green residency
In partnership with the Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture at Huddersfield University, we developed an exciting residency opportunity with a focus on Green and Blue wellbeing spaces.
Artist Michaela Lesayova has been commissioned to undertake the residency and will present her findings through various public engagement activities across 2024 and 2025.
About Green and Blue Space
Green and blue spaces refer to natural environments such as parks, forests, lakes, rivers, and oceans. Research suggests that spending time in these environments can have significant positive effects on mental and physical well-being.
About the artist
Michaela Lesayova is an interdisciplinary Artist, Creative Educator and a Specialist Coach and Mentor to Creatives. Her work operates at the intersection of ecology, neurodiversity and wellbeing exploring the creativity-nature connection. Informed by her own lived experiences of migration, intergenerational trauma and repeated loss of health, her approaches and art practice explore deeply our relationship to our local environments. Michaela investigates her interests through accessing and engaging with local natural resources. Her art practice spans natural dyeing, making inks from plants and flowers, and immersive installations which she often shares in a community set up through social art practice.
About The Centre For Cultural Ecologies In Art, Design And Architecture (University Of Huddersfield)
Our ambition as a research centre is to provide a space for collaboration, knowledge and cultural exchange between academics, students (postgraduate and undergraduate), creative communities and cultural organisations. We encourage collaborations that will develop new ecologies of thinking and making across a broad range of themes and topics. We support opportunities for interdisciplinary working across the arts and humanities and encourage participation and engagement in our public realm programmes.
