Community & Participation
For over 20 years I have worked with communities that are often excluded from arts and cultural spaces: young people not in education or employment, care leavers, asylum seekers, mental health inpatients, young carers, people living with dementia, and communities affected by poverty and inequality. My approach always begins with listening — and the work is always led by the people I am working with.  I believe that everyone has something important to make and say, and that the role of the artist is to create the conditions for that to happen.
Litter / Let Me Be Heard
Endeavour (NEET young people)  |  2018–2019
What happened: Led young people excluded from mainstream education to create life-size armature sculptures from recycled litter, addressing environmental issues in Page Hall. Final artworks exhibited at Millennium Galleries and Winter Gardens as a public arts intervention, followed by a family day, film screening and sculpture exhibition.
Outcomes: Public exhibition. Film documentation. Measurable increases in engagement, concentration, pride and creative skills.
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