About
I am an Essex-born, Liverpool / London-based socially engaged combined arts creative who explores the ability of everyone to be creative in any area of their life.
I am passionate about the power of creativity, collaborative arts and practices to draw out individual and community stories.
My drive is to inspire and promote sustainable creativity in myself and others, facilitating the co-creation of group work that explore place, space and memory.
Art can take many shapes through forms such as community organising. I have co-founded an award-winning community food growing space - Greening Brownfield, Poplar, East London which now runs as a community-run cooperative. In Marlborough, Wiltshire I led on Reclaim Our River project and We Love Marlborough; hyper-local creative community cooperative.
More recently I have begun to DIY my own creative podcasts to share hidden stories about creatives and how they make work every day.
LISTEN TO EVERYDAY CREATIVITY PODCAST
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I run Get Lost unguided Artist Walks as part of London Creativity and Wellbeing Week and Find Your London Festival. Through these walks participants are invited to creatively play with day-to-day journeys, randomness, opening up to questions and conversations with strangers. The aim is to seek out more physical/performative actions in public/private spaces of parks, pavements and waterways.
I ask people to open up to new ways of thinking and being linked to seeing familiar and unfamiliar spaces in totally new ways.
I believe that you don’t have to be creative to be an artist and that creativity is embedded in everyone’s everyday experiences from how we get up in the morning, how we set the table, what food we choose to eat, plants we grow through to the choices about how and with whom we spend our time.
My studio practice is based around playing with drawing, photography, sketchbooks and collages as much for it's own sake as well as ways of mapping out ideas for projects and exhibitions.
I have run creative supper clubs hosted from my live/work studio where small groups of people meet, converse, share homemade locally sourced veggie meals and have transformational moments through creative making and play.
My work has been shown in shows in Beecroft Gallery, Domino Gallery - Liverpool, The Photographer's Gallery, Bow Arts Open, RCA Secret, Salisbury Arts Centre and Mile End Pavilion.
I have curated a range of community-led group exhibitions with the London Transport Museum, The Other Side Gallery, Hackney Museum and Bow Arts Trust.
PROFESSIONALLY
I am an arts, learning & health creative engagement consultant. I have been working in Arts & Health initiatives since 2002 when I worked with the award-winning Cracked project, via Immediate Theatre, Hackney, UK.
I am a trained creative leadership coach, enterprise mentor, socially engaged artist educator and clinical solution-focused psychotherapist and hypnotherapist.
I offer a range of ways to work 1-2-1 or in groups via
+ Re-discover your creative mojo coaching
+ Everyday Creativity podcaster
+ Social enterprise strategic leadership, programme and team mentoring
+ Creative, hands-on, person-centred, accessible learning facilitation and training
+ Better sleep, boosted mood, focus & love of life hypnotherapy
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