Vanya Lambrecht-Ward
Artist, researcher & lecturer
Atlantic Technological University
Department of Fine Art
Sligo, Ireland
Vanya Lambrecht-Ward is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work exists as a studio and research practice, alongside collaborative, educational and community engagements. In her studio practice, through a variety of topics and media, she explores our relationship to our natural environments and built surroundings. Her research centres around fungal ecologies, system and process thinking, and language with a particular focus on relationships and perceptions of our environments and ecological partners, which often take the form of small publications and events.
Field of research | Area of activity
Art, artistic research, philosophy of science, transdisciplinary studies, Climate Arts Assembly
Keywords related to mycelial space
Process and material, decay, growth and transformation
Related projects
LEER Residency Leitrim Sculpture Centre
Roots for the Future – Climate Arts Assembly Research Project
Mycoremediation Research – Rathlin Island/University of Ulster
Selected exhibitions
2024 When We Cease to Understand the World, Interface Inagh, Galway International Arts Festival
2024 Landscape, Ecology and Environment Residency (LEER) Exhibition at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre
2023 Interface Inagh, Clifden Arts Festival Exhibition
2022 Becoming – (online) exhibition of language art with Camilla Nelson Single Apple Press
2019 Shoptalk – A commissioned art project by Leitrim County Council (Heritage and Arts office) and Creative Ireland
2018 The Workstation – SPARK Residency Exhibition, a partnership project of Leitrim Co. Co Arts Office
Selected publications
Mycothought – Dock Arts Centre, Leitrim
LEER Residency Research Documentation