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(Our temporal anomaly collection)
Whether it’s facilitation, socially engaged arts, community co-production or napping under a tree, each project below asked why are we doing things like this? I’ve written summaries, but words don’t always translate the glimmers and ripples of the work. If you want to learn more about any of the below we can always meet for a hot drink, woodland walk, start a crafting project together or something else whilst we chat. Voicenote exchanges are also very welcome from anyone based further afield <3 Let me know how you like to meet.
What future did we travel to?
One where the power is shared with nature
One where the human | nature binary has been dismantled
One where embodied knowledge is as valued as the written word
one where everyone has a say in what they learn at school (if schools still exist!)
Roots to reimagining (2026 - ongoing)
What is natural history? How do we listen to nature? Who gets to tell the story of a fossil? This 6 part workshop series with 10 teenagers will be interrogating museum practices to produce recommendations for the new natural history GCSE. We hope to produce a template for co-producing decolonised, accessible and embodied curriculums with young people and defining natural history for ourselves through artistic response.
Partners: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, University of Bristol, Brigstow Institute
Role: Socially Engaged Artist, Workshop Design, Access and Engagement strategy
What future did we travel to?
One where research includes lived experiences, community workshops and alternative forms of expertise
One where academic institutions generate compassion, abundance and communities who are resourced to tackle our polycrisis with care
One where academia listens to everyone
Inclusive Research Cultures Conference (2026)
Hosted at the Wellcome Institute, this two day conference brought together researchers from across the UK to advocate for equitable and care-led research practices. Led by the experts and beacons of care, Studio Susegad, each university shared their learnings and hopes for what an expanded and caring research culture could look like. 150 attendees reflected on what shifts and resources are needed in academia to move at the pace of trust with the communities whose voices and needs are currently absent from research.
Partners: Studio Susegad, Wellcome Institute
Role: Lead facilitator
What future did we travel to?
One where all global communities affected by colonial exploitation reclaim their stories and share how they’ve protected their traditions
One where museums are space for grief, movement, feeling and empowerment
The colonial legacy of tobacco (2025)
In October 2025 I was invited to create an artistic response to Bristol’s tobacco archives. After speaking with archivists, local community groups impacted by the exploitation of Bristol’s tobacco factories and two visitors from a Navajo tribe in North America from whom the leaf had been stolen, myself and 5 other artists developed proposals to tell this story. Our creative responses were embedded into the research project which recommends how these archives might finally be shared with the public.
Partners: M shed, University of Bristol.
Role: Socially Engaged Artist
What future did we travel to?
One where every public space is a gallery
One where everyone gets to be an artist
One where high-streets are where we come together as communities and make change happen
Deptford X (2024 - ongoing)
Deptford X is London’s oldest visual arts festival. Taking over libraries, banks, pubs, parks and streets, each festival reminds Deptford that their home is their canvas. Spanning 200 free community events, the Deptford X festival platforms, celebrates and pays artists from across South East London to transform the town into a haven for creativity. They support artists to take up space and subvert traditional gallery practices.
Role: Co-chair of the board of Trustees
What future did we travel to?
One where all genders are welcome and celebrated
One where museums are space for repair and community
One where we all have a say in how our stories are remembered, interpreted and preserved
Gender Stories (2025)
Gender Stories was a touring show that compiled the archives of Bristol, Liverpool and Brighton Museum to reflect on how we have documented our history of gender. I designed and delivered 6 paid workshops with community groups across the intersections of the LGBTQIA+ community to embed the voice of lived experience and social history. The stories, perspectives and artefacts from these groups became the guiding principles for the curation and intent of the show.
Partners: Bristol Museum and Gallery (as part of the MAGNET museum partnership)
Role: Workshop design, access and engagement support, facilitation
What future did we travel to?
One where cities are not just sustainable but regenerative
One where building materials are local, non-extractive and healing to our planet
One where reciprocity is celebrated instead of growth
Between Two Worlds (2026 - ongoing)
Between two worlds is a cohort of 10 architects and those working in the built environment who believe cities can be designed with planetary care at their heart. This cohort is coming together 4 times over the course of the year to camp outside, envision new practices led by access, build fires, eat and make together. This is a space to slowly and intentionally expand the thinking of the built environment sector and support each-other to go back to our respective work and plants the seeds of change. The year long programme models new ways to collectively imagine architecture practices; outside, with hot food and with generosity.
Partners: Jaime Blakeley-Glover and Alastair Mant
Role: Cohort participant