Hello!
I’m an arts worker with experience in performance, participation, social justice & interdisciplinarity, aiming to widen access in every sense to experimental work.
Alongside roles with Independent Dance (Co-Director 2020-2024), and Artsadmin (2004-2019) I have developed a freelance practice in producing, dramaturgy, curating and mentoring.
My work is influenced by experience of being inside processes of making and performing through a background in movement and music. I am based in London and Crowlink, near Eastbourne, and work between the two.
My approach across all roles is based on strong collaborative and listening skills, humour, and an enjoyment of the challenges of complex processes and production. Translating ideas between forms and contexts and supporting the shaping of projects/structures is at the heart of this - as is a spirit of ongoing learning. I’m keen to maintain joy in the serious processes of art-making and to support work which takes risks, transforms, delights, troubles - and enriches - our understanding of the world.
If you’d like to have a chat, please feel very welcome to get in touch via the contact link below.
- Producing Walking Each Other Home, a participatory project by Stacy Makishi exploring how we might build communities of connection. Workshops, residences and performances across the UK in 2025
- Producing LINKED by Graeme Miller. A sound work installed on lamp posts across 3 miles of East London which transmits the stories of people displaced by the building of M11 Link Road. LINKED has run continuously since 2003 following its launch as a Museum of London commission. Now fully restored technically, we are running open events from local libraries every year so that audiences can go on the audio walk to hear the work
- Producing BEHELD by Graeme Miller. Since 2003 Graeme has done detailed research into sites around the world where people have fallen from the wheelbays of aircraft while attempting to migrate. BEHELD has become a poignant installation work shown internationally over many years. We are working to find further contexts to present it in
- Supporting Jessica Lerner’s project KNITTING FOG as a mentor. Knitting Fog works with and in response to the site of a former quarry in the Black Mountain, South Wales. Performance, screenings, talks, workshops in May 2025
- Consulting on the development of a public programme at Newington Green Meeting House in London
- Developing my own research project Towards supported (thank you!) by an ACE grant. This is exploring how - and whether - to create a performance initiative in the area between Eastbourne and Newhaven on the south coast. Longterm dreaming!
- Proud Trustee of queer-led Hastings-based Home Live Art.
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, as performer in early works and then as producer of her performances at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill), National Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, Somerset House (all in London) and Fruitmarket, in Edinburgh. Other artists I have collaborated with as a freelance producer include Sung Im Her, Fernanda Muńoz-Newsome, Nic Conibere. As a dramaturg I have worked with Simone Mousset, Mamoru Iriguchi and Umama Hamido.
2020-24: As Co-Director of Independent Dance alongside Heni Hale I steered creative strategy and led on partnerships, communications, finance, fundraising, governance, co-initiating/curating 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 archive of transcribed talks by artists working in diverse movement and dance practices.
2004 - 2019: As Artsadmin’s Lead Artist Advisor/Producer, I shaped artist development schemes, co-curated public artworks, produced projects and started a European network to critically explore the ethics of participation. Produced projects included live works by Stacy Makishi across a decade, co-curating 25 visual works for Bethnal Green’s Town Hall Hotel, supporting associate artists including Freddie Opoku-Addaie and Mamoru Iriguchi, curating 30 Weekender Labs with artists ranging from La Ribot to Vlatka Horvat and The Freedom Theatre Palestine, and producing 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: 2018-2025
Walking Each Other Home by Stacy Makishi, a touring participatory project: Southbank Centre (March 2025), Stables Theatre Hastings (7 June 2025), Colchester Arts Centre (15 October), SPILL Festival Ipswich (25 October)
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
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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