My experience lies in producing, artist development, curating and mentoring, with strong interests in performance, participation, and widening access to bold and radical work in galleries, theatres, public spaces and found sites.
With a spirit of learning, reciprocity, equity and changemaking at the heart of what I do, I am keen to creatively and strategically support work which takes risks, transforms, delights, questions - and enriches - our understanding of the world.
Contexts I have produced projects in include Southbank Centre, Palais de Tokyo, Leytonstone Library, National Gallery, TATE, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Dance Umbrella, Sadler’s Wells and the London Paralympics.
I’m now freelance following roles with Independent Dance (Co-Director 2020-24), Artsadmin (Lead Artist Advisor/Producer & other roles 2004-19).
At Artsadmin I led artist support programmes, produced performance projects and public art commissions, and initiated a Creative Europe network exploring the ethics of participation. Co-Directorship of Independent Dance alongside Heni Hale included co-founding/leading the International Festival of Learning, the creation of ID’s Digital Library, year-long programme Dance It, Dance It: artistic approaches to access and leadership and Keep Listening, Keep Talking, a partnership project by ID, Dance in Higher Education, Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University and Centre for Performance Philosophy at Surrey University, exploring approaches to anti-racism in higher education contexts.
My current work includes initiating a new programme, Track & Field, in Eastbourne and the South Downs on England’s south coast; co-curating/producing a programme for Newington Green Meeting House in London; producing projects by Stacy Makishi and Graeme Miller; mentoring and consultancy for artists and organisations.
My approach is influenced by a background in making and performing, and shaped by working alongside artists and partners in many different ways, including extensive collaboration as a producer with the artist Florence Peake.
Among many things, I enjoy listening and collaborating to help make things happen, longterm artistic development, finding and shaping contexts for work, and navigating complex production challenges to bring risk-taking work to audiences.
Please feel welcome to get in touch if you’d like to meet for an initial conversation, in person or online.
- Producing UK & international tour of Stacy Makishi’s participatory project Walking Each Other Home
- Co-curating a programme at London’s Newington Green Meeting House which includes a residency by Alice Gale-Feeny exploring the impact of Section 28, and CALL CENTRE, a partnership project with Samra Mayanja and Live Art Development Agency
- Directing curatorial research project Track & Field supported (thank you!) by an ACE grant.
For a couple of years I have been researching how to create a new initiative to support live work in Eastbourne, and in the coastal downs nearby. This has involved conversations with artists, activists, ecologists, rangers and farmers, local councillors, community stakeholders, and curatorial staff of arts organisations; hosting pilot events in the South Downs National Park; training, consultancy, mapping and mentoring. I’m now fundraising to host a programme of performance and process-led work (residencies, workshops, performances, walks and gatherings) in 2026 & 2027, across a range of venues and outdoor sites.
- Producing LINKED by Graeme Miller. A sound work installed on lamp posts across 3 miles of East London which transmits the voices and stories of 60 people displaced by the building of the M11 Link Road
- Supporting development of Stratford King, a video installation by Umama Hamido
- Mentoring, research and fundraising consultancy work for Devonshire Collective, Charlotte Spencer, Anna Maria Nabirye & Darragh O’Leary, and the band 3Head
- Trustee of queer-led Hastings-based Home Live Art
2020-24: Co-Director, Independent Dance (ID).
ID is an artist-led, learning-based organisation in London which supports the development of dance through radical enquiry, learning, community-building and audience engagement. As Co-Director alongside Heni Hale I steered creative strategy and led on partnerships, communications, finance, fundraising, governance. Heni and I initiated and co-curated editions of International Festival of Learning and year-long programme Dance it Dance it; artistic approaches to access & inclusive leadership. We co-led the creation of ID’s open-access Digital Library of 140 transcribed artist talks.
Freelance work has involved supporting performance-makers and visual artists to create and present projects in galleries, theatres and found sites. For 13 years I collaborated with Florence Peake; initially as performer in five early works at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, BALTIC, Hayward Gallery, Space Studios, Moving Museum for Frieze, then through Florence being an Associate Artist through Artsadmin, and then as freelance producer of her performance works at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), De La Warr Pavilion, National Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, Somerset House and Fruitmarket, Edinburgh between 2014 - 2023.
Other artists I have collaborated with as a freelance producer include Sung Im Her, Fernanda Muńoz-Newsome, and Nic Conibere. As a dramaturg I have worked with Simone Mousset, Mamoru Iriguchi and Umama Hamido. Recent mentoring/project development support relationships with Marina Collard, Jessica Lerner, Charlotte Spencer, Anna-Maria Nabirye & Darragh O’Leary, Craig Mccorquodale.
2004 - 2019: As Artsadmin’s Lead Artist Advisor/Producer, I shaped and led artist development schemes, co-curated public artworks, and started a European network to critically explore the ethics of participation. Projects included live works by Stacy Makishi, supporting associate artists including Freddie Opoku-Addaie and Mamoru Iriguchi, curating Weekender Labs with artists ranging from La Ribot to Vlatka Horvat and The Freedom Theatre Palestine, and live works for Southbank’s Paralympic Culture Programme 2012.
2000-4: Programme Manager with Chisenhale Dance Space
Before working in the arts, in the 90s, I was an ESOL Lecturer leading a course for women at Hackney Community College, where I was also Refugee Support Worker. Before this I lived in Spain, teaching English and running a market stall.
Artists’ projects produced freelance: 2016-2025
Walking Each Other Home by Stacy Makishi, a touring participatory project (2024-26)
BEHELD by Graeme Miller, an installation (2025)
LINKED by Graeme Miller, offsite commission for Radical Landscapes, Morris Gallery, London (2023 - 2024), open days at Leytonstone and Wanstead Libraries (2024-25)
Factual Actual ((performance) by Florence Peake : Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2023)
Factual Actual: Ensemble (performance) by Florence Peake at Southwark Park Galleries, London (2023)
Factual Actual (performance) by Florence Peake : The National Gallery, London (2021)
Carareretetatakakekerers by Normal Conditions / Nicola Conibere : produced until July 2021. Presented at Sadler’s Wells October 2021
Apparition Apparition by Florence Peake and Eve Stainton at The Place, London (2020)
Nutcrusher by Sung Im Her : at The Place, London and Cambridge Junction (2019)
W.A.Y (We Are You) by Sung Im Her : at ARKO, Seoul (2019)
Slug Horizons by Florence Peake & Eve Stainton : at Nottingham Contemporary for Nottdance (2019)
A Body Rites Itself by Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome : at Powernight curated by Block Universe, E-WERK Berlin (2019)
Inchoate Buzz by Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome : at Nottdance and Sadler’s Wells (2019)
RITE: on this pliant body i slip my wow by Florence Peake: De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (2018)
RITE by Florence Peake at Palais de Toyko, Paris (2018)
RITE by Florence Peake: development phase (2016-2018) - fundraising through Jerwood Choreographic Research Project and ACE, partnership development, logistics and performers’ support during making at Somerset House Studios
Shift Construct by Florence Peake: NOW Gallery, London
Dramaturgy
The Passion of Andrea 2 by Simone Mousset : at KLAP Marseille, Grand Théåtre de Luxembourg (2019), The Place, London (2020), Avignon Festival (2021)
Multiple works by Mamoru Iriguchi alongside Selina Patsoupeli
On Akka’s Shore, a film by Umama Hamido, alongside Graeme Miller
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