Tell us about yourself

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I’m an arts producer and currently work with improvisation company Improbable as executive director. I’m also a trustee of Deafinitely Theatre, Sphinx Theatre and the Multi-Story Orchestra.

 

In 2019, Improbable called a Devoted & Disgruntled conversation at Battersea Arts Centre about how artists can respond to the proroguing of parliament. The room was flooded with ideas – puppets of protest, street art, placards, flags, choreographed marches – and I left thinking how valuable a fund like ARTCRY would have been in supporting some of those ideas to happen. I’m excited to find out what and how ARTCRY is able to support. 

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Why do you think it’s important to see artistic response to social and political events?

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If there’s a route out of the mess our planet and our societies are in right now, it’s going to involve doing things differently. Different ways of being, living, communicating; different stories, power balances and relationships; different visions, perspectives and values. I’ve no idea what those things might look like, but the time to start exploring them is now. 

 

The arts has a critical role to play in that. Making a piece of art is an opportunity to think differently about a question; to dream up and model new modes of being, and to do so in ways that are playful, hopeful and risk-taking. Creating and engaging with art helps us figure out what we think about the world and what we’re going to do about it.