Tell us about yourself

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I’m a socially engaged practitioner with a keen interest in how the arts overlap with social policy and statutory services. I’ve been fortunate enough to have worked almost exclusively with underrepresented communities, it’s important to me to make work for and with people who don’t call themselves ‘artist’ our audiences, our muses and our storytellers. I support organisations to create accessible and ethical participation approaches, more recently working with lived experience community building models and care practices for global majority arts administrators. I’m motivated by rage, injustice and a dry Brummie irony. On my off-days, I work with folk song and participatory performance inspired by clowns and fooling, but good luck catching that!

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What excites you about being part of the ARTCRY panel? 

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GIVING OUT CASH! Brilliant ideas can get overlooked by mainstream routes that struggle to preserve the reactive and spontaneous nature of socially engaged work. Being a part of ARTCRY is an honoured opportunity to hear what makers are conscious of and inspired byin 2025. I’m looking forward to getting into a few healthy debates with

the rest of the illustrious panel - and giving out cash.

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What components would your dream application have? 

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An idea that addresses time-sensitivity in this urgent and unprecedented era, something persistent and reactive with a relationship to public space. I love work by the likes of Praxis or Francis Alys, work that doesn’t sit on the fence but is decidedly humanistic. I’m hoping something weird, difficult and beautiful finds its way to us.