Henna Asikainen MRSS

Henna Asikainen is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist whose socially engaged practice explores the intimate relationships between people and the natural world, and the entangled experiences of belonging and displacement across human and other-than-human lives. 

For over a decade, her work has been developed collaboratively with diverse communities, - particularly diasporic communities - unfolding through embodied, place-based methodologies shaped by specific landscapes and the ecologies that sustain them. 

Across sculpture, installation, textiles, sound, and temporary interventions in the landscape, her work creates spaces of encounter where grief and resilience, fragility and strength, converge. She works with foraged materials, materials that are heavily coded—discarded waste, uprooted roots, seeds and dried plants. Foregrounding this work is a sensitivity to her human and non-human collaborators, and to the specific characteristics of a place, its history, ecology, and communities.’

She received her PhD in Fine Art Practice from Northumbria University, UK in 2004 and has since undertaken numerous residencies and exhibited widely with support from institutions including Site Gallery, FACT Liverpool, D6 Culture, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Counterpoints Arts, Lancaster Arts, Middlesbrough Art Festival.