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

From May to June, New Wave Wild Project returns to Siamsa Tíre with The Wild Within, an inspiring exhibition and workshop series celebrating the therapeutic power of nature and our human connection to the natural world.

Now in its third year, this expanded creative programme builds on the success of the A Wave of Change events in 2024 and 2025. For 2026, New Wave Wild Project will present a dynamic showcase of visual art, educational talks, hands-on workshops, and an online auction—all exploring themes of grounding, connection, emotional wellbeing, and the creation of safe spaces through nature.

. www.newwavewildproject.ie

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