Let’s Make...
Let’s Make Art
Creative making, participatory practice and commissioning artists to create new work for and with audiences.
Working with artists as a commissioner and curator to develop new works.
Acting as a lead facilitator/maker on slow making and creative arts projects.
As Lead Artist
Sleep Quilt, Wellcome Reading Room
As Lead Producer/Curator
Squish Space, Barbican
Basquiat’s Brain, Barbican
Hunt & Darton, Cross Arts Box, Barbican
Squish Space, commission with India Harvey & Lisa Marie Bengtsson
Barbican 2018-20, as Creative Learning Curator and Senior Producer
Developing a brief for a play installation for children under 5s. Working with lead artists, Level G Programme team and audience experience team to develop and deliver several seasons of Squish Space.
Barbican 2018-20, as Creative Learning Curator and Senior Producer
Developing a brief for a play installation for children under 5s. Working with lead artists, Level G Programme team and audience experience team to develop and deliver several seasons of Squish Space.
Basquiat’s Brain, Exhibited at Barbican Centre
Barbican 2017-18, as Creative Learning Curator
Exploring Basquiat’s style and techniques using contemporary digital tools. Commissioned programme and artwork, led by lead artist Antonio Roberts and a multi-disciplinary group of Barbican Young Creatives alumni.
Barbican 2017-18, as Creative Learning Curator
Exploring Basquiat’s style and techniques using contemporary digital tools. Commissioned programme and artwork, led by lead artist Antonio Roberts and a multi-disciplinary group of Barbican Young Creatives alumni.
Basquiat’s Brain, Exhibited on Shoreditch Digital Canvas
Barbican 2017-18, as Creative Learning Curator
Exploring Basquiat’s style and techniques using contemporary digital tools. Commissioned programme and artwork, led by lead artist Antonio Roberts and a multi-disciplinary group of Barbican Young Creatives alumni.
Barbican 2017-18, as Creative Learning Curator
Exploring Basquiat’s style and techniques using contemporary digital tools. Commissioned programme and artwork, led by lead artist Antonio Roberts and a multi-disciplinary group of Barbican Young Creatives alumni.
Hunt & Darton, Cross-Arts Barbican Box
Barbican 2019-20, as Senior Producer Creative Learning
Working with Hunt & Darton to scope a cross-arts box inspired by their practice. Initial development, artist and team induction to the project, and supporting the Creative Learning Team to deliver the programme in London and Manchester.
Barbican 2019-20, as Senior Producer Creative Learning
Working with Hunt & Darton to scope a cross-arts box inspired by their practice. Initial development, artist and team induction to the project, and supporting the Creative Learning Team to deliver the programme in London and Manchester.
Sleep Quilt, Delivered and Exhibited at Wellcome Reading Room
Wellcome Collection 2016, as Lead Artist/Quilt-maker
Conceived as a response to the exhibition States of Mind, I hosted workshops at Wellcome and St Mungo’s, Endell Street inviting people to share their stories of sleep and embroider them into a quilt.
Wellcome Collection 2016, as Lead Artist/Quilt-maker
Conceived as a response to the exhibition States of Mind, I hosted workshops at Wellcome and St Mungo’s, Endell Street inviting people to share their stories of sleep and embroider them into a quilt.
Let’s Make History
Inclusive and accessible approaches to history.
Uncovering, exploring and recording heritage through work with archives, collections and people.
Includes work with
- Crafts Council
- Barbican
- Bristol Museums and M Shed
- Imperial War Museum London
- Imperial War Museum North
- LSE Archives
- Museum of Croydon
- Museum of Healthcare at Kingston
- Pink Singers
- ss Great Britain
- UCL Museums
- University of Huddersfield
Chart Your Own Course, Self-Led Resource for Secondary School Pupils
ss Great Britain 2014, as Museums and Schools Project Officer
Creation of a self-guided, choose-your-own-adventure trail drawing from familiarity with the site and supporting pupil exploring independently. Writing the resource, design, testing and delivery.
ss Great Britain 2014, as Museums and Schools Project Officer
Creation of a self-guided, choose-your-own-adventure trail drawing from familiarity with the site and supporting pupil exploring independently. Writing the resource, design, testing and delivery.
Persistence of Memory, Greenhead Park
Greenhead Stories Oral History Project, As Project Manager/Oral Historian
Exploring the history of Greenhead Park through oral history interviews, workshops, research and an exhibition hosted by the Friends of Greenhead Park.
Greenhead Stories Oral History Project, As Project Manager/Oral Historian
Exploring the history of Greenhead Park through oral history interviews, workshops, research and an exhibition hosted by the Friends of Greenhead Park.
Pink Singers @ 40, Oral History and Community Engagement Sessions
Pink Singers 2023, as Project Oral Historian
Drawing from the archives, concert recordings and oral testimonies, I developed and delivered creative engagement and remensicence workshops for members of Opening Doors and Metro Youth, celebrating LGBTQ+ History month
Pink Singers 2023, as Project Oral Historian
Drawing from the archives, concert recordings and oral testimonies, I developed and delivered creative engagement and remensicence workshops for members of Opening Doors and Metro Youth, celebrating LGBTQ+ History month
Forget Me Not, Exhibition by Barbican Young Curators
Barbican 2019, as Senior Producer Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning
Exploring Barbican’s Archive with a group of young creatives: exhibition including archive material, creative responses and newly commissioned work. National Heritage Lottery Funded.
Barbican 2019, as Senior Producer Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning
Exploring Barbican’s Archive with a group of young creatives: exhibition including archive material, creative responses and newly commissioned work. National Heritage Lottery Funded.
Queering the Gallery, Outstories Bristol with M Shed
M Shed Bristol 2013, as part of Revealing Stories Exhibition
As a volunteer member of Outstories Bristol, I worked with the M Shed Learning Team to develop a schools project that engaged with oral histories, explored LGBTQ+ History in Bristol and produced a series of labels written by young people from Bristol Secondary Scho
M Shed Bristol 2013, as part of Revealing Stories Exhibition
As a volunteer member of Outstories Bristol, I worked with the M Shed Learning Team to develop a schools project that engaged with oral histories, explored LGBTQ+ History in Bristol and produced a series of labels written by young people from Bristol Secondary Scho
Let’s Make Ideas
Curated programming that sparks ideas and generates meaningful dialogue between specialised expertise and lived experience.
Bringing different stakeholders together to exchange knowledge, share ideas and guide exhibitions, commissions and programming.
Frames of Mind Exhibition, Oral History and Community Consultation,
Museum of Croydon 2009, as Freelance Consultant
Building relationships with, and gathering feedback from, local mental healthcare services, support groups and services users. Interviewing a range of key artists, practitioners and service users to contribute oral history to the exhibition.
Museum of Croydon 2009, as Freelance Consultant
Building relationships with, and gathering feedback from, local mental healthcare services, support groups and services users. Interviewing a range of key artists, practitioners and service users to contribute oral history to the exhibition.
Too Young for What? Basquiat
Barbican 2017, as Creative Learning Curator
Programming a festival of activity exploring Basquiat’s practice in a contemporary context. Commissioning new performances, poetry and writing for the free stage, and workshops, tours and talks across the centre.
Barbican 2017, as Creative Learning Curator
Programming a festival of activity exploring Basquiat’s practice in a contemporary context. Commissioning new performances, poetry and writing for the free stage, and workshops, tours and talks across the centre.
Are You Sitting Comfortably? Young Visual Arts Group Exhibition
Barbican 2017, as Creative Learning Curator
Building the annual Young Visual Arts Group programme with lead artist Jordan Mckenzie. Developing a programme of exchange and development for emerging artists that culminated in a three-day exhibition across the Barbican.
Barbican 2017, as Creative Learning Curator
Building the annual Young Visual Arts Group programme with lead artist Jordan Mckenzie. Developing a programme of exchange and development for emerging artists that culminated in a three-day exhibition across the Barbican.
ENO Youth Company, artist Bethan Yates, and Richard Seager Awards
English National Opera 2020, as Project Facilitator
Developing a digital programme of exchange between artist Bethan Yates and members of ENO’s Youth Company, on a commission for The Coliseum. Making connections between performance and craft, hosting digital workshops and support collaboration.
English National Opera 2020, as Project Facilitator
Developing a digital programme of exchange between artist Bethan Yates and members of ENO’s Youth Company, on a commission for The Coliseum. Making connections between performance and craft, hosting digital workshops and support collaboration.
Training and knowledge exchange programme, The First Decade Project
Crafts Council 2016, as Learning and Participation Manager
Developing a training programme for volunteers based across England as part of a National Heritage Lottery Fund project. Supporting the First Decade Project Team with in-person delivery and leading on a digital learning platform for volunteers.
Crafts Council 2016, as Learning and Participation Manager
Developing a training programme for volunteers based across England as part of a National Heritage Lottery Fund project. Supporting the First Decade Project Team with in-person delivery and leading on a digital learning platform for volunteers.
Let’s Make Resources
Resources that spark curiosity by putting the experience and expertise of learners first.
Resources for educators that are easy to adopt and adapt.
Digital resources, trails and activities that support self-led learning.
As Programme Lead/Curator
Twelve Tall Tales Exhibition, Crafts Council
As Resource Writer/Designer
I Am Here, English National Opera
Basquiat Box, Barbican
Finish This, English National Opera
I AM HERE, Schools Photography Project
English National Opera 2020, as Project Lead and Publication Designer
Developing a programme for ENO's partner schools, inviting Year 7 pupils to capture self-portraits during their post-lockdown start to Secondary School. Writing resources, and designing the printed publication.
English National Opera 2020, as Project Lead and Publication Designer
Developing a programme for ENO's partner schools, inviting Year 7 pupils to capture self-portraits during their post-lockdown start to Secondary School. Writing resources, and designing the printed publication.
Basquiat Box, Barbican Visual Arts Box
Barbican 2017-18, as Creative Learning Curator
Basquiat Box was an edition of Barbican Box filled with examples of Basquiat’s work, materials he used and objects that contextualised his life. The box was curated to inspire learning and collaboration and activated by artist residencies in schools, to create new work and newly publised zine anthology
Barbican 2017-18, as Creative Learning Curator
Basquiat Box was an edition of Barbican Box filled with examples of Basquiat’s work, materials he used and objects that contextualised his life. The box was curated to inspire learning and collaboration and activated by artist residencies in schools, to create new work and newly publised zine anthology
Story Selector, Twelve Tall Tales Exhibition
Crafts Council 2016, as Learning and Participation Manager
Twelve Tall Tales was an exhibition that highlighted how artists, makers and designers tell stories through the objects they create. This included developing a Story Selector guide illustrated by Sally Jane Thompson FF
Crafts Council 2016, as Learning and Participation Manager
Twelve Tall Tales was an exhibition that highlighted how artists, makers and designers tell stories through the objects they create. This included developing a Story Selector guide illustrated by Sally Jane Thompson FF
Finish This, Lesson Plans, Resources and Composer Workbook
English National Opera 2021-2022, as Consultant and Designer
Working with ENO producers and composer Jessie Maryon Davies to distill ideas for the Finish This programme into easy-to-follow lesson plans, downloadable resources and pupil workbooks that supported Secondary School take up in the project.
English National Opera 2021-2022, as Consultant and Designer
Working with ENO producers and composer Jessie Maryon Davies to distill ideas for the Finish This programme into easy-to-follow lesson plans, downloadable resources and pupil workbooks that supported Secondary School take up in the project.
Let’s Make Change
Engaging with people to enact individual and organisational change.
Supporting teams to collaborate.
Working between programming and strategy.
Reflecting on practice and developing pedagogies that challenge the status quo and support institutional change.
Teacher CPD, Ark Schools Hastings,
Ark Schools 2023, as Project Lead - Cultural Education Programme
Developing and embedding creative arts and cultural entitlement activity as part of a Clore Duffield Foundation funded programme with Ark Schools. Working with teachers, local arts organisations and artists in Hastings to deliver a pilot programme of activity for primary and secondary school pupils.
Ark Schools 2023, as Project Lead - Cultural Education Programme
Developing and embedding creative arts and cultural entitlement activity as part of a Clore Duffield Foundation funded programme with Ark Schools. Working with teachers, local arts organisations and artists in Hastings to deliver a pilot programme of activity for primary and secondary school pupils.
Design Yourself, Barbican Young Creatives
Barbican 2019, as Senior Producer Creative Learning
Developing a digital commissioning programme for Young Creative Alumni, responding to the questions: What does it mean to be human? and how do advances in technology help or hinder our capacity to be creative? Co-developed and led with artist Antonio Roberts, as a pilot within a new digital strategy.
Barbican 2019, as Senior Producer Creative Learning
Developing a digital commissioning programme for Young Creative Alumni, responding to the questions: What does it mean to be human? and how do advances in technology help or hinder our capacity to be creative? Co-developed and led with artist Antonio Roberts, as a pilot within a new digital strategy.
Peer Reset Group and Cultural Sector Support Programme
A New Direction 2020, as Senior Programme Manager
Developing a Peer Support group for people working in the arts education sector, bringing together people to share practice, engage in dialogue and take part in peer coaching during the disruption of the pandemic. Sharing learning from that process more widely through a programme of digital events and resources.
A New Direction 2020, as Senior Programme Manager
Developing a Peer Support group for people working in the arts education sector, bringing together people to share practice, engage in dialogue and take part in peer coaching during the disruption of the pandemic. Sharing learning from that process more widely through a programme of digital events and resources.
My Basquiat Tours, Basquiat Boom for Real Exhibition
Barbican Art Gallery 2017, as Creative Learning Curator (Visual Arts)
Creation of a youth-led tours for members of the public in the Barbican Art Gallery, tours included performance, storytelling, poetry, dance, and imrpovisation, establishing a new format for visitor and youth enagagement.
Barbican Art Gallery 2017, as Creative Learning Curator (Visual Arts)
Creation of a youth-led tours for members of the public in the Barbican Art Gallery, tours included performance, storytelling, poetry, dance, and imrpovisation, establishing a new format for visitor and youth enagagement.
Young Enterprise Lab, Entrepreneurship Awards
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as Senior Producer
Piloting a pre-incubator programme for Barbican Young Creative alumni and Young Barbican members with an interest in entrepreneurship. Supporting a cohort through a mentoring process, led by Social Enterpreneur Joe Gray, as part of a strategic review of Careers and Enterprise programming.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as Senior Producer
Piloting a pre-incubator programme for Barbican Young Creative alumni and Young Barbican members with an interest in entrepreneurship. Supporting a cohort through a mentoring process, led by Social Enterpreneur Joe Gray, as part of a strategic review of Careers and Enterprise programming.
Metal Casting with Jacky Oliver, Craft&Making Saturday Club
Cockpit Studios 2023, as Youth and Community Producer
Developing and embedding Youth and Community Engagement activity across Cockpit Studios in Bloomsbury and Deptford. Includes setting up a National Saturday Club, developing careers programming for schools and growing a public offer on site.
Cockpit Studios 2023, as Youth and Community Producer
Developing and embedding Youth and Community Engagement activity across Cockpit Studios in Bloomsbury and Deptford. Includes setting up a National Saturday Club, developing careers programming for schools and growing a public offer on site.