A very brief introduction to Permaculture for artists, with Liz Postlethwaite

Part of Mental Health for Artists 2026

This participatory session offers a brief introduction to permaculture design and how it can inform creative practices that are more regenerative and restorative, for the natural world and for ourselves. Liz invites attendees to work together using the elements as a starting point to consider the energies that shape our work, projects, and lives. We explore how mapping these energies can help frame what we do in a more grounded, less reactive way.

About Liz

Liz Postlethwaite is a community artist and organiser with a wide ranging practice which is grounded in over fifteen years of learning as a permaculture designer and regenerative practitioner. Her work bridges and unites a range of different disciplines and creates communal discourses, often between strangers in public spaces, motivated by a desire to better understand the way that culture, art and imagination can create new ways of doing things, to help envisage alternative futures.

About Mental Health for Artists

Mental Health for Artists is Axis’ annual event season dedicated to the wellbeing and self-care of artists and creatives.

This year’s programme looks closely at how artists sustain themselves and their practices. Through conversations about tenderness, grief, regeneration, seasonality, and world-making, the season offers space to reflect on how we live, work, and care within contemporary art.

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