Hello!

I am an artist.

I’m also a facilitator, cultural programmer, curator and community-er.
I call this web of practices creative citizenship.

As an artist I work between London and Frome, Somerset. Based at the Silk Mill Studios, I balance my time between studio practice, collaborations and socially-engaged projects.

As for the creative citizenship bit, I bring 20+ years of experience as a public and community engagement professional. I have worked across the higher education and culture sectors, initiating and delivering diverse projects in the entanglements of creativity, health, ecology and social justice. I’m a progressive, collaborative leader committed to social and environmental impact through relational practice - fostering cultures of care, curiosity and co-creation.

R E S I D E N C I E S

KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, UK | 2016-17
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care
Residency + permanent commission: Constellation // A Watch of Nightingales

KENTISH TOWN HEALTH CENTRE [FREE SPACE PROJECT], UK | 2014
Residency: Subtle Bodies

DORDTYART, NL | 2013
Residency: Work, Rest, Play

IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, UK | 2010
Residency at Multi-Faith Chaplaincy: Risk, Reflect, Repeat

COOMBE FARM STUDIOS, DEVON, UK | 2009

KURT SCHWITTERS MERZBARN / LITTORAL TRUST, LAKE DISTRICT, UK 2008

ACS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, COBHAM, UK | 2004

E X H I B I T I O N S & S C R E E N I N G S

2025
Tinctoria - Silk Mill Studios / Frome Festival
2019
Wild Drawing Experiment - Window Galleries, CSM, London
2018
One Pot Per Day (minor modifications) - The Victorian Vitrine, London
A Real Job is to Make Something - AiR, Tottenham, London
2016
One Pot Per Day - Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London
One Pot Per Day - Coalition of Craft, London
One Pot Per Day - Homerton University Hospital, London
One Pot Per Day - Imperial College, London
One Pot Per Day - Mental Spaghetti
2014
Humble Origins: Art on Paper – B.A.R, Gallery, London
Balfron Season / Open House – Bow Arts Trust, London
2013
Super Scale - Plan.Open / Arbeit Gallery, London
Collision - Nancy Victor Gallery, London
2012
Pursuit, n. – Heath Street Arts, London
SLUICE - Exhibition / Auction / Publication - Hanmi Gallery, London
Audio Activity – The Lagoon, London
Inclusions - The Stone Space, London
2011
Jazz Mass - Union Chapel, London
Sonant Ensemble / Gavin Bryars Ensemble -Testbed1, London
2010
New Embroidered Objects - Liberty & Co, London
Risk, Reflect, Repeat - Imperial College Chaplaincy, London
Beware of Embroidery - PM House and Gallery, London
Minimalism Massimo, The Gallery at Willesden Green, London
Incidents - Goth on Bus, Greenwich
2009
Graveyard Shift - Dissenters' Chapel & Gallery, Kensal Green Cemetery, London
Rising Stars - Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth
Terrain - The Lock-up Shop, London
MA / MFA Show - Slade School of Fine Art, London
Sequel - UCL Print Collections, London
Affluenza - Samaritans/ New Economics Foundation, Clerkenwell, London
2008
Touching the Divine - Hervey de Stanton Chapel, Cambridge
The Body Project - Slade Research Centre, London
Cosm - UCL Observatory, London
2007
Action! - V22 / The Projection Gallery, London
Deviant Art Festival - Gothenberg, Sweden
2006
Not Out Of The Woods Yet - The Projection Gallery, Liverpool (Independents' Biennial)
Projektor - Cafe Gallery Projects, London
Display Until - Byam Shaw, London
Where are you now? - 12Box Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Cliffhanger - Hoxton Hall, London
Small - Kingsgate Gallery, London
PG Dip Interim Show - Byam Shaw, London
17 Principles of Coexistence - Lauderdale House, London
2005
Camberwell Open Studios, London
2004
Science Fictions - ACS International, London
Return to Sender - Spitz Gallery, London

C U R A T I N G

Observatory (with Teleri Lloyd-Jones & Mia Cormack), Lethaby Gallery, CSM, London
Human Resources (with Teleri Llloyd-Jones), Lethaby Gallery, CSM, London
Designing in Turbulent Times (with Carole Collet & Martin McGrath), Lethaby Gallery, CSM, London
Creative Unions (co-curator), Lethaby Gallery, CSM, London
Normal to Dissent (with Rebecca Wright), Window Galleries, CSM, London
Wintervention: Alternative Advent (co-curator) Intervention Gallery, London
Diana Taylor: Climbing, Falling - Intervention Gallery, London
Youngman & Sack, Intervention Gallery, London
Equal Night: Music, Video, Sculpture - Dissenters' Chapel & Gallery, London
Terrain - The Lock-up Shop (Kensal Rise Overground Station), London
COMMUNICATORS II: Music, Dance, Video - Shoreditch Church, London
Display Until - Byam Shaw, London
Kneejerk: Lundahl & Seitl project development - Byam Shaw, London
COMMUNICATORS: Music, Dance, Video - Shoreditch Church, London

P U B L I C S P E A K I N G

Bodies in Motion, Minds in Bloom, COLOURS European University Alliance - conference speaker
How Might the Arts Reimagine a More Peaceful World?, Bloomsbury Festival - convenor, chairperson
Atmospheric Forces, Silk Mill Gallery, London - in conversation with artists Sue Palmer & Sheila Ghelani
We Are Nature, Avanti Arts Festival, Frome - climate assembly facilitator
Creativity, Care and the City (I & II) - host
Sculpting Civic Space, AKOSI Storytelling Institute, UAL - presenter
Bangalore by Design, Bengaluru, India - curator talk
Anant University, Ahmedabad, India - curator talk
Designing Turbulent Times, Paris College Art - curator talk
Independent Cinema Office, London – Pop-up and Event Cinema - panellist
Portobello Microplex Cinema, London – Community Cinema - panellist
Dordtyart [with Dario Lazzaretto], NL - artist talk
Daylight Music [with Ana Silvera] , Union Chapel, London - performance
Reverb Festival [with Ana Silvera and Imogen Heap], The Roundhouse, London + The Sage, Gateshead - performance
Art in Sacred Spaces, Wallspace, London – panellist
Oracles [with Ana Silvera] - The Roundhouse, London - performance
Imperial College London chaplaincy - artist talk
Michaelhouse, Cambridge [with Anna Sikorska & Dr Joel Cabrita] - artist talk
Central Saint Martins, UAL, London [with Benjamin Jenner] - postgraduate artist talk

P U B L I C & C O M M U N I T Y E N G A G E M E N T

CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS, UAL | 2024-25
Cultural Programmer

Poetics of Care - convenor, programmer, creative producer
Camden Schools Art Biennale - project lead
The Observatory – co-curator, public & community engagement lead
In Body & Mind: Creative Health Micro-Festival - programmer & producer
SMK National Campaigner Awards x CSM – project Lead, creative director-producer + creative change-maker award
UAL Technical Conference: technicians’ forum – facilitator

STORYTELLING INSTITUTE, UAL | 2022-23
Head of Creative Projects

Pilot Season - programmer, convenor (partners included the GLA, Art on the Underground, 4th Plinth Commissioning Group, World Cities Culture forum, Doc Society)
Storytelling-for-change Fellowship: Truth & Lies - producer
Storytelling Impact Autopsy (with Sheffield DocFest & SMK Foundation) - producer
Horizon Lab (with NT Studio, IDFA DocLab, Reset Narratives, Crossover Labs, Moral Imaginations - co-designer, senior producer
The Storyteller and the AI – Project manager, produced (AI Fringe at the British Library with UAL Creative Computing Institute)

Commissioned projects:
Traces: Stories of Migration – film documenting major community project led by Prof Lucy Orta
CultureBox: Arts, Dementia & Covid-19 - performance

CLIMATE EMERGENCY NETWORK, UAL | 2021-25
Co-Founder & Creative Director

I directed, produced and facilitated a broad range of collaborative student/ staff/ alumni projects and initiatives around creative climate action, including:

Nesta: Hot Stuff! Heat Pump Design Challenge
London Doughnut Economy Coalition: Global Doughnut Days
Climate Emergency Assemblies
Earth Days: Appetite for Justice (2022) / The Green House (2023) / From the Ground Up (2024) / More Than Human Stories (2025)
Carnival of Crisis - a Creative Climate Summit for COP26
Parade for Climate Justice
Barbican: Earth Quest – Your Ecological Adventure
Centre for Sustainable Fashion: Imagining Possibilities - Field Day
Climate Emergency Interactive (non-linear climate literacy film)

CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS, UAL | 2018-22
Creative Producer: Gallery Programmes, Culture & Community

Produced, co-curated and managed numerous exhibitions, events and displays, including: Creativity,
Care and the City (parts I & II) – with London Arts & Health / Nesta / GLA - convenor, programmer, producer
Human Resources: Creativity as Renewable Energy in a Time of Scarcity - curator
Designing in Turbulent Times (co-curator Carole Collet, designer Martin McGrath) - curator, producer
Creative Unions (co-curator Jeremy Till) - curator, producer
Wellcome Photography Prize - producer
Caroline Broadhead: a Retrospective - producer
The Age of New Babylon – student-curated exhibition (feat. Abbas Zahedi, Sandra Paulson) - producer
Ib Kamara – Double-page Spread - curator, producer

VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM | 2003-08
Learning & interpretation – freelance artist-educator and events team

FREELANCE ARTIST-EDUCATOR | 2002-07
Devising and delivering bespoke outreach and participation projects in schools, galleries & community organisations across London (Barbican Centre, Serpentine Galleries)

TATE MODERN | 2002-06
START! Family Programme – engagement team & activity developer

D E S I G N, C R E A T I V E D I R E C T I O N, P H O T O G R A P H Y

Royal Opera House, London - Research & Development for Cassandra [with Ana Silvera & Kate Church] - video artist, art director
Bunker - Royal Ballet / Ballet Boyz / Random Acts / Channel 4 dance film commission - art direction
Aeon Magazine – editorial photography
Sofa - Royal Ballet / Ballet Boyz / Random Acts / Channel 4 dance film commission - stills photography
The Nomad Cinema - creative direction, design management, graphic design
Route 67 short dance video - stills photography
Ana Silvera - art direction, album design, photography, styling
Sonant Ensemble - graphic design
Love Bites - graphic design
Bicycle Thieves: Pip Productions / In Transit Festival - design consultancy
L'Ecume des Jours: Pip Productions / Le Delirium, Avignon - set design
Crescendos in Blue: Pip Productions / Maison Francaise, Oxford - set design

E D U C A T I O N

SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART, UCL (AHRC-funded) - Master of Fine Art - 2007-9
BYAM SHAW (Central Saint Martins) - PG Dip Fine Art - 2005-6
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (Jesus College) - BA History of Art- 1999-02
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY - BTEC Foundation Studies in Art & Design - 1998-99

A W A R D S 

Arts SU Award: Climate Emergency Network
Emerge Arts Activists Commission - Education 
Emerge Arts Activists Commission - Curating [with Kerim Aytac] 
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea - Arts Grant [Intervention Gallery] 
Arts and Humanities Research Council - Professional Preparation Masters Scheme 
'Touching the Divine National Sculpture Competition - Commendation 
Arts Council England: Project Funding - Cliffhanger: Suspended Objects, Suspended Time, Suspended Conclusions

T R A I N I N G & V O L U N T A R Y R O L E S

Mental Health First Aid certified training | 2024
Carbon Literacy Project certified training | 2024
Bio-Leadership Project fellowship | 2023-24
Emerging Better leadership programme | 2022
Engage – member

THE SUNDAY ASSEMBLY | 2011-14
Volunteer co-host and singing lead (East End)

INTERVENTION GALLERY | 2010-11
Co-Founder, fundraiser, director – artist-led meanwhile space

FORMER TRUSTEESHIPS
Mental Spaghetti Depression
Changes Minds

CRISIS
Volunteer Chef (Christmas shelters)

Fluent French (bilingual) | Conversational Spanish