Disability‑led, embodied and ecological art rooted in movement, drawing and lived experience.

Genevieve Rudd is a disability‑led artist whose work explores how the brain‑body moves, senses and interprets the world. Her practice is shaped by the lived realities of acquired brain injury, vision impairment, fatigue and neurodivergent processing — not as constraints, but as generative artistic methods. Working through drawing, movement, video and place‑based processes, she creates experimental, reflective artworks that emerge from the body’s shifting capacities and its dialogue with the natural environment.

Across bed‑based drawing, wheelchair‑led movement, studio experiments and outdoor mark‑making, Genevieve works with the textures, distortions and rhythms of disabled embodiment. Her recent work investigates how spasticity‑stiff movement echoes the bent, wintering and weather‑shaped forms found in local ecologies and broken vascular/water systems. These resonances between body and landscape form a core thread in her practice, revealing how attention, care and slowness can become creative strategies.

Genevieve has an established background in socially engaged and community arts, with over a decade of experience leading participatory projects across East Anglia and beyond. Her facilitation centres access, co‑creation and sensory connection, often working with disabled, neurodivergent and marginalised communities. This long-standing commitment to inclusive arts practice continues to inform her current work, where personal embodiment and collective experience meet.

Her projects span drawing, movement, video, printmaking, textiles, found materials and ecological processes. Whether working indoors or outdoors, alone or collaboratively, Genevieve’s practice is grounded in care-centred creativity, gentle activism and an ongoing inquiry into how disabled bodies inhabit, notice and reshape the world.

She is based in Gorleston, Norfolk, and works across the region on artist residencies, commissions, workshops and interdisciplinary collaborations.

She has been a Trustee of Natural Habitat charity since 2023.

Genevieve’s research proposal through Under Open Sky was nationally shortlisted for the Centre for Cultural Value’s research programme with her idea ‘The Sea and Me’ exploring the relationships between cultural identity and the coast – whilst this proposal didn’t get through to the last stage of the process, it was an affirming opportunity to her creative practice exploring participatory community nature/blue space engagement.

In her participatory projects, she has often explored arts & health. Genevieve is experienced in creative health projects from a lived experience perspective. Genevieve was awarded bursaries to join the Arts & Health Research Intensive residency in 2022. She worked as a Peer Evaluator for a Kent & Norfolk-based St Giles Trust women’s project; and as a lived experience reviewer for the AHRC culture & health fund – both in 2023.

Now in on-going rehabilitation since Acquired Brain Injury in 2023, this now informs her current neuro-inclusive practice (including her projects: Internal Waterscapes, Ambulatory Imaginations/) and necessitates new arts practice approaches supported by a First Light Festival CIC Creative Bursary in 2025-26; and residency at The Grange, Norfolk in Spring 2026.

In her career, Genevieve has attracted different recognition & Awards, including:

• Highly Commended in Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance Awards (Climate category, 2022).
• BBC Make A Difference Green Award – Highly Commended (2023).
• Shortlisted for Norfolk Arts Lifetime Achievement Award (2023).

In her own Artistic Practice, pre-2023, she worked in multidisciplinary approaches: textile arts, drawing, photographic techniques including: cyanotype and anthotype. Inspired by the natural world, working with plants, weather, and natural materials. She is currently (2025/6) in the process of evolving her practice. Across these two life phases, she has explored themes of time, place, seasonality, and lived health experiences.

Genevieve studied BA (Hons) Photographic Arts, at University of Westminster (2008–2011).

Email: hello@genevieverudd.com