Hello!
Welcome to this site about my work as a curator and producer specialising in artist development across live art, performance, dance and visual arts, with strong interests in widening access to bold and radical practices across institutional and independent contexts.
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.
Places I have produced projects in include Southbank Centre, Palais de Tokyo, Leytonstone Library, South Downs National Park, 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). My current work includes directing 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, fundraising and consultancy for artists and organisations including Devonshire Collective, Charlotte Spencer, Anna Maria Nabirye & Darragh O’Leary, the band 3Head, and the Live Art Development Agency.
Drawing on a background in performing and making, I bring a relational and responsive approach: listening closely to artists, shaping supportive contexts for their work, and navigating the practical, emotional and strategic complexities required to bring risk-taking work to audiences. My approach is influenced and shaped by working alongside artists and partners in many ways, including extensive collaboration as a producer with the artists Florence Peake and Stacy Makishi.
Please feel welcome to get in touch if you would like to meet for an initial conversation, in person or online. You can contact me here nikkijtom(at)gmail.com
Producing UK & international tour of Stacy Makishi’s participatory project Walking Each Other Home which explores connection, community and how ritual can heal and transform (2025 - ongoing)
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 project by Samra Mayanja delivered in partnership with 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 the restoration and dissemination of Graeme Miller’s 2003 Museum of London sound commission LINKED, an installation on lampposts across 3 miles of East London which emits the voices and stories of 60 people impacted by the demolition of 400 buildings to create the M11 Link Road in the 1990s
Producing The Exiled Camera, a film installation by Umama Hamido about migration, displacement and homelessness
Mentoring, research and fundraising consultancy work for Devonshire Collective, Charlotte Spencer Projects, Anna Maria Nabirye & Darragh O’Leary, the band 3Head, and the Live Art Development Agency
Trustee of queer-led Hastings-based Home Live Art
Artists’ projects produced as a freelancer: 2016-2026
Holy Kalohe (rascal), a short film about Stacy Makishi (2026)
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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