Creative environmental art in collaboration with communities

Since 2011, Genevieve has led participatory/community arts projects in museums, galleries, schools, festivals, outdoor spaces, and health care settings (GP surgeries, wards care homes.); Projects encourage participants to look closer at their surroundings, often through walking arts practice often co-relating to her own practice and always collaboratively; She Co-founded the Artist Educator Social Network in 2019.

Her creative arts work is underpinned by Outdoor & Environmental Practice. Genevieve holds a Wild Beach Leader Level 3 qualification since 2022, in the same year, she founded Under Open Sky, a not-for-profit organisation exploring the coast through arts, heritage, science, and wellbeing; facilitating community groups & events in Norfolk/Suffolk blue watery locations.
She is a climate declarer and co-instigator of East of England Culture Declares Emergency Hub; 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 often explores 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 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 rehabilitation since Acquired Brain Injury in 2023, this now informs her current neuro-inclusive practice (Internal Waterscapes, Ambulatory Imaginations in 2025) and necessitates new arts practice approaches supported by a First Light Festival CIC Creative Bursary in 2025-26.

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