Artist Educator, Consultant Lecturer
January 2022: an occurrence / an event / a happening - käfig with semester students of Foundation for International Education. Going beyond ourselves.
April 2022: käfig workshop with GCSE pupils of Harris Academy, Morden. Spontaneously and playfully responding to and improvising material, sound, objects, people, movement etc. This resulted in a käfig performances consisting of all that is theatre, without the hierarchies, because set, props, actions (movement.), light, sound and ‘narrative’ or spoken word, all happened at the same time and were choreographed into a composition.
October 2020: On Wednesday 14 October I lead a workshop with OCD and BDD patients of the Seacole Ward at Springfield University Hospital. We collectively created a large scale, semi-abstract mural through chance methods, intuitive response and improvisation, transforming the main corridor on Seacole Ward completely.
Due to success and transformative qualities of the workshop the patients and medical staff expressed a strong interest in doing a longer-term project that would apply the above-mentioned approaches. So I devised ‘working title’….
May to July 2021: ‘working title’, an artist residency over a period of three months is this longer term project, curated by myself and funded by private art patrons.
Over a period of three months (in a series of biweekly choreographed sessions in and around the hospital) the service users and I created multidisciplinary artworks and situations (installation, found objects, drawing, choreography, spoken and written word, sound and moving image) through play, chance methods, intuitive response, improvisation and collaboration.
20 to 26 September 2021: The artist residency culminated in an interactive and performative exhibition titled storm at Art Hub Studios Gallery, Creekside, Deptford.
Embracing openness and indeterminacy in its conception, storm was an exhibition in constant flux. Adapting the metaphorical guise of a state, the exhibition came to life through the creative interventions of actors Greta Hansen, Marley Brown, Cal Newman, and Kelton Hoyland.
2018 to 2019: leader and curator of unCaged for Parasol Unit, Foundation for Contemporary Art – youth workshops aimed at increasing young people’s engagement with contemporary art as well as to complement traditional ways of making through a more experimental, collaborative and playful approach.
2017: Visiting tutor at RCA and Bath School of Art and Design – Programming and delivery of practical workshops (specifically devised by myself and relating to my own artistic practice) for undergraduate and post-graduate students.
2016 to 2022: ‘art/talking’ – upon the request of a small group of patrons and collectors who like to discover emerging artists, I have created ‘art/talking’: a venue based project aimed at exploring the variety and depth of the London contemporary art scene as well as key themes in current contemporary art practice through twice monthly visits to galleries, museums, project spaces, artist studios, foundations and collections. The approach is conversationalist and participatory and visits culminate in discussions and conversations supported by my research and experience in the field as well as through dialogue with artists, gallerists and curators.
2013 to 2015: Bow Arts Trust, London. Artist Educator. Responding to briefs from schools and delivering practical workshops related to my own practice.
2008 to 2022: Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. Consultant lecturer on Contemporary Art. Classroom and venue based teaching. I have also been programming, designing and leading the institute’s annual month long summer course ‘Contemporary Art in London’ for the last 6 years and programme courses for their Public Programme.
2008 to 2022: Frieze London. Artist Educator for different age groups and levels around the fair where I curate tours and unpick and discuss the latest tendencies in contemporary art.
2008 to 2012: Tate. Artist Educator teaching in the permanent collection as well as in temporary exhibitions.