Healing Land: How Nature and Art could treat souls – an immersive and captivating artist talk and presentation from Kerry-based Ukrainian artist, Olga Derevyanko, exploring themes of healing, resilience, and reconnection through her long-term visual art project ‘Healing Land’. This talk provides insight and consideration of complexity around themes of nature, healing, and migration.

About Olga

Olga Derevyanko is a Ukrainian visual artist based in Ireland. Her practice explores the relationship between the human body and the natural environment, shaped by her experience of forced displacement and rebuilding a sense of belonging through landscape. Her long-term project Healing Land combines self-portraiture, landscape photography, and collective stories to reflect on healing, resilience, and reconnection through nature. Her work has been presented in exhibitions in Ireland, France, and the UK. https://www.olgaderevyanko.com/

About New Wave Wild Project

New Wave Wild Project is delighted to host a range of creative workshops during this year’s art event at Siamsa Tire in May. A Wave of Change is about diving into experiences inspired by amazing blue and green spaces, and leaning into therapeutic moments through creative engagement, play, mindfulness, and connection. Our Creative Skills workshops are a perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in a creative space and explore some new practical skills through guided workshops with our wonderful selection of experts. www.newwavewildproject.ie

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