I enjoy making performances, texts, experiences and environments with people. My practice comes from performance, but is now firmly interdisciplinary.

My interests include: play, place, story, belonging, assembly, schools, culturally responsive pedagogies, community building and the languages of children.

Current and recent work:

I’ll meet you under the willow (2022 – 2029) is a 7-year residency with St Joseph’s Primary School in Salford. We’ve made three performances together to date which explore young people’s authentic languages of storytelling, play, place, and new ways of assembling in community. In 2024, we made a very fancy version of pass-the-parcel, and our final layer unwrapped a golden heart.

I was initially matched with the school by The Lowry. In 2023 we were supported by Heart of Glass.

We are open to other artistic collaborators, partners and funders as we continue this journey together.

Textbook (2021 +) is a foundational piece of work for my practice with teachers. Heart of Glass, 10 teachers and I worked together to re-imagine schools in the form of a poetic pamphlet. The project process was reshaped as we responded to the pandemic, and it’s now slowly re-appearing in the offline world with some of its original ideas. From 2023, Textbook moved into an assemblies format.

Textbook Assemblies enable educators to imagine new possibilities for schools, and helps us to generate and experiment with ideas for longer-term art based projects. The form is evolving – from text to performance and everything in between.

In a recent assembly, we worked with the image from the final pages of Textbook: ’school as lighthouse’, and framed questions to guide our practice by physically lighting them up. Lantern in hand, teachers have asked questions like “How do we find new ways to be together?”; “How do we make space for children’s expression and play?”; and “How do we centre freedom?”

Our collaborators are growing all the time; you are welcome to join us.

This is the place (2024) was a performance made with 4 schools in New Brighton, in partnership with C-Change Creativity Collaborative, Wirral Borough of Culture and Theatre Porto. 110 children, a few teachers and I made a performance that explored place, belonging and identity.

Girl on the Gate (2020/1) was created in response to letters exchanged with Holy Family Primary School during the pandemic. The short story responded to the qualities of connection and playfulness that the children identified in their writing.

This project was supported by Arts Council England.

I am an associate artist with The Mac (Belfast), working on their programme to develop Social Art practices with secondary school art teachers.