Hi. I’m an arts worker with experience in performance, participation, social justice & interdisciplinarity, advocacy for and with artists and widening access in every sense to experimental work.
Alongside organisational 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 informed and 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.
From 2020-24 I was Co-Director of Independent Dance, firstly alongside Heni Hale and then Nathaniel Parchment. The role included steering creative strategy and leading 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. I co-led the creation of ID’s open-access Digital Library with 150 transcribed talks and texts by artists working in diverse movement and dance practices. During and following the pandemic, the main drivers of our intersectional approach were to question and expand the organisation’s practices and representation across every facet of its workings.
Alongside this my freelance practice has involved supporting performance-makers and visual artists internationally on 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), National Gallery (London), De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill), Southwark Park Galleries, Somerset House and Fruitmarket (Edinburgh). Artists I have collaborated with as a freelance producer also include Sung Im Her, Fernanda Muńoz-Newsome, Nic Conibere. As a dramaturg I have worked with Simone Mousset, Mamoru Iriguchi and Umama Hamido.
Work in Crowlink in the South Downs includes hosting informal artist retreats (Alinah Azadeh, Vida Vojić, Dog Kennel Hill Project), writing-moving project Carrier with Clare Whistler, participating in improv practice group Dancers in Landscape. I am also a Trustee of queer-led Hastings-based Home Live Art.
I’m currently producing Graeme Miller’s outdoor sound installation LINKED and his project BEHELD, and producing Stacy Makishi’s participatory project Walking Each Other Home. I am also researching how to create a performance initiative between Eastbourne and Newhaven on the south coast through an ACE Developing Your Creative Practice grant.
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’re interested in working with me or having a chat, please drop me a line.
As Artsadmin’s Lead Artist Advisor/Producer, I shaped artist development schemes, co-curated public artworks, produced projects internationally 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, 30 Weekender Labs with artists ranging from La Ribot to Vlatka Horvat and The Freedom Theatre Palestine, and exhibitions and performances for Southbank’s Paralympic Culture Programme 2012.
Prior to this I was Programme Manager with Chisenhale Dance Space (2000-2004). 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)
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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