About

Henna is a multi-disciplinary artist of Finnish heritage with a participatory, and socially engaged practice. Her work explores the intimate and entangled relationships between humans and the natural world, intersecting with themes of migratory movement, climate change, heritage, and belonging.

Rooted in co-creation and collaboration, Henna is dedicated to developing innovative arts projects with diverse communities. Her practice spans various media, including installation, sculpture, video, sound, and temporary interventions in landscape. The materials she uses range from found and disregarded objects to ephemeral and fragile natural materials, such as dried flowers, uprooted tree roots, textile, feathers and cast metal and glass. Central to her practice is a response to the particularities of place - its history, ecology, and community.

Henna’s recent projects have been created in collaboration with people who have lived experience of forced displacement and of seeking refuge. These co-creative projects have explored ecological and social issues through communal experiences within rural landscapes and examined issues such the importance of access to nature and green spaces and how a sense of homelessness – of not belonging – is produced through exclusion. At the heart of these projects is an idea of radical hospitality, care, mutual aid and a sense of humanity as an interdependent part of a larger planetary web of life in which we all (human and the other-than-human) can flourish and live well.

Henna holds a PhD in Fine Art Practice (Northumbria University). She has undertaken numerous residencies both nationally and internationally as well as developing projects with a number of agencies and partners and exhibiting widely.