I’m a highly experienced participatory and socially engaged artist, and artist educator, having worked in the field for over 30 years. I also have a rich back experience in youth work and community-based practices. In 2017, I began curating. Projects have been independently devised or delivered in partnership with organisations and have been either, or all, participatory, socially engaged, or online.

In 2014, I joined Fermynwoods Contemporary Art as an artist educator on their Alternative Education Programme, delivering workshops to young people excluded from mainstream education. While continuing in this role, I became an Education Co-Ordinator, supporting visiting artists and working closely with the students throughout the school year. In 2018, I began curating on projects, becoming their Education Curator. I managed the Alternative Education Programme, and curated events for their Free Exchange Programme, and in 2020, the Isolated Moments series.

In 2020, I began a new role, teaching at Youth Works Community College, working with young people who find mainstream education a challenging environment. I currently teach art and music, but have also taught environmental studies, managed a youth group for LGBTQ+ young people, and ‘Waste Knot and Wot Not’s, a shop selling vintage goods and handmade items made from recycled materials, made by students and young people attending the ‘Waste Knot’ youth group.

In 2019, I was commissioned to be an artist on the Artist in Residence at C2C Social Action project along with three other artists. We worked with women who were in vulnerable situations, making art to be exhibited in a joint exhibition. In 2020, in its second iteration, I became lead artist, developing the project and curating the programme and exhibition, which was held in 2022. In 2023, while maintaining my role as a lead artist, I managed the project, now called Artists in Residence at C2C Social Action, Sol Haven and Northampton Hope Centre, leading a team of seven other artists over the course of a year, in partnership with three organisations, C2C Social Action, Sol Haven and Northampton Hope Centre. We worked with adults who were in vulnerable situations, on a series of art activities, the resulting work being exhibited at NN Contemporary Art in 2024.