Lesley Asare is a British-Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist and wellness practitioner based in Milton Keynes, UK.

Her practice is guided by a deep inquiry into truth, intuition, and the subtle faculties that shape human experience. Rooted in African diasporic wisdom, she approaches the body as a sacred archive of memory and ancestral intelligence, a site through which histories, identities, and unseen connections can be felt, remembered, and reimagined.

Working across painting, sculpture, movement, ritual performance, installation and sound, Lesley explores identity, ancestry, ecology, and the lived experiences of Africans and the Global Majority. She creates work that invites stillness, play, and self-reflection, opening space for transformation, healing, and embodied awareness. Central to her practice is a belief in the creative process as a restorative force, and in living in right relationship with the earth.

Her projects, including Body Arcana Home, Homecoming (Milton Keynes Gallery, 2022), Home is Where the Heart Is (New Art Exchange, 2023), Homebuilding (Peckham Platform Commission, 2023), The Call (Black British Art Commission, 2024), and Water Memory (Elmina Castle, 2025), reflect her commitment to transforming materials and historically charged spaces into sites of healing, remembrance, and renewal.

A graduate of the London College of Fashion (MA Costume Design, 2012), Lesley has collaborated with artists including Mark Storor, Rene Baker, Amanda Monfrooe, Phoebe Davies, The Ahhhness of Things, and Vicki Igbokwe (Uchenna Dance). Her work has been presented widely across the UK and internationally, including at Artsadmin Toynbee Studios, Bush Theatre, SPILL Festival National Platform, FACT Liverpool, The Showroom Sheffield, Chale Wote Festival (Accra), Elmina Castle (Ghana), and Milton Keynes Gallery, among others. 

In recent years, her work has expanded into ceramic instrument-making and sound. Through research into African, Andean, and Mesoamerican approaches to healing through clay, she is developing a body of work that includes ceramic sound vessels such as ocarinas, flutes, and percussive forms. These instruments act as extensions of the body, carrying breath into vibration and form part of an evolving practice that explores sound as both a sculptural and ceremonial medium. Her work increasingly engages with the relationship between breath, vibration, ancestry, and the nervous system, creating pathways for collective regulation and reconnection.

Through her multidisciplinary and ceremonial approach, Lesley creates spaces for people to reconnect with themselves, each other, and the deeper rhythms that sustain life.