Lisa Peachey, Landscape Architect

Lisa has had a varied creative career, including studying fine art at The Slade School of Art, as well as serving as a project manager in the graphic design industry, overseeing product launches for a top-5 tech company. She has curated a variety of events and exhibitions, including a show for Turner Prize-winner Elizabeth Price. She has also been commissioned to write curatorial text for a number of up-and-coming and established visual artists. In 2017, she volunteered for both Cruse Bereavement Care and Raleigh International in Costa Rica (a country known for its wide biodiversity, as well as for having the world’s happiest people). Her subsequent understanding of the impact of the environment on our life experience, particularly in confronting grief and death, has led her to retrain and work part-time as a landscape architect.

Lisa on Art and Nature

As a landscape architect, Lisa sees nature as a fundamental factor in her work. Lisa’s interests focus on understanding our relationship to nature (or indeed our place within it), as well as how we shape nature – through cultural understanding and perception as much as through its physical manipulation. While at Bloedel, Lisa will be considering how blue and green spaces (and which types) enrich our lives. She’ll also explore the question of how nature aids our understanding of the shape of our own trajectories, specifically how to make change and loss evident as a natural course, and how these natural spaces provide a source of reflection, relaxation (both physical and psychological), and renewal.