Lisa Waud

Old and new. Nature as a cleansing reset. Joy from beauty. There are numerous themes that spark the interest of this US artist who revolutionised the world of floral installations with her now legendary “Flower House”. In this work, she called upon dozens of floral artists to fill an abandoned house – sadly not an unusual sight in the downtrodden city of Detroit – with nature. More than 100,000 flowers and plants took over the house, rendering it a tribute to renewal and to botany.

Some of the things that Waud is vitally committed to are making her projects fully accessible, engaging viewers and collaborators (moving away from the traditional image of the artist working alone), and celebrating the beauty of underrepresented and marginalised groups. Her vision of nature has a lot to tell us, we just need to let it speak for itself.