Tell us about yourself

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I work in the arts and have founded ARTCRY because I believe the arts can connect us, teach us and inspire us to think bigger and more deeply about the world we live in and the people around us.

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I am currently Executive Producer at Improbable, working in a brilliant team making theatre, running projects and holding spaces using improvisation.  Before joining Improbable I was Senior Producer at Fuel,  Creative Producer at Emergency Exit Arts, did events and project management at the Donmar Warehouse and Battersea Arts Centre and worked as a freelance stage manager in venues across the UK.

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What excites you about being part of the ARTCRY panel? 

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Art has the ability to really reach audiences on political issues with empathy, humanity and connection. Through a creative response you can hold contradiction and messiness, an idea doesn't have to be distilled into three words, it doesn't need to be simple. Being on the panel is a great way of supporting public, political work to happen. On the panel you get to read lots of great applications and have great conversations about them with a passionate and interesting group of people, which is really inspiring, Saying yes to funding someone is joyful. 

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What components would your dream application have? 

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It would be really high quality. It would be directly connected to the time and place it was planned for. The artist would be clear on why they were making that piece, why them, why there, why now. I think for me a dream application would be from someone who hadn't considered making work in public spaces before because part of the reason we started the fund was to encourage more artists to think about making this sort of work. 

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