About

Tereza Violet Stehlíková

I am a Czech-British artist, writer, researcher and educator exploring how we make meaning through the senses. Across moving image, installation, participatory performance, writing and pedagogy, my work engages embodiment, atmosphere, memory, place, and ways of paying attention through the senses.

I am drawn to the thresholds between inner and outer worlds: the ways light, texture, sound, place, space and movement shape how we feel, remember and belong. Much of my work explores what happens when we become estranged from lived, bodily experience, and how art might help us return to a fuller sense of presence.

My practice is rooted in artistic research and shaped by an ongoing dialogue between art, philosophy and sensory studies. I am interested in how aesthetic experience can deepen attention, reconnect us with the body, and bring us back into fuller contact with the world.

I hold a PhD from the Royal College of Art, London. I am the author of Exiled from Our Bodies: How to Come Back to Our Senses (Routledge, 2025), published as Tereza Stehlíková, editor of Tangible Territory, and co-founder of the Ecstatic Truth symposium. I have taught and supervised across institutions in the UK and the Czech Republic, and am currently based in Prague.

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/terezastehlikova
Instagram: @tereza_stehlikova
LinkedIn https://linktr.ee/tereza.stehlikova

If you are particularly interested in mentoring, workshops and embodied approaches to creative practice, you can also visit my dedicated platform, Back to Your Senses.