COMMUNITY AND PARTICIPATION

Working with community and collaboratively with artists is ongoing within my practice. Engaging audiences, for them to participate in the work and at times becoming the art work, is a process that I find develops and informs projects in delightful and unexpected ways.

The themes and intention of my work require engagement in more widely, mutually agreeable and meaningful ways.

It is my desire to share with ease and hold people with care.

My Bhᾶti Part 2
2024

What is the purpose of a wake? Is it to meet and reminisce about the past or can it be an opportunity to reflect and support others? In this second part of My Bhati, using food as a means of bringing people together, participants were invited to actively engage in the work by following prompts for reflection whilst honouring others.

Can we rest?
2021

A chance for artists to talk about the possibility of rest whilst taking a guided walk.

For Jo Fong’s series ‘Come Rain or Shine’,

What concerns you on a daily basis
2015

An 1800hrs collaboration with artist Verena Vanderberg

The local community was asked to anonymously share their concerns which culminated in an evening of dress up, a photo shoot and tea ritual acknowledging our common concerns in the form of a hand-stitched paper waistcoat.

For Made in Roath Arts Festival

Some Concerns

How to remain hopeful
Make sure to tell my friends and family I love them, in which ever form love can be shared
Am I a good person? Can I change? Will this last?
We still are not learning enough on the effect we are having on this planet.
Not being alone
Where the next pay check is coming
What shall I eat today. Should I get out of bed. What shall I do.
Will world war 3 begin today
Where are the rules and who makes them???
I work in property so I compare my capitalist professional views with my genuinely socialist ones
Breaking a 'rule' and it comes back and bites me on the arse!
Is Mum gonna be ok?
Collectively changing profit driven and consumption hungry capitalism
How can I contribute something better to the world?
Financial security and recently, my health - mental and physical
Ethically- if I buy this, who is it harming along the way?
Should I do this/ say that/ is what I am doing right? What difference am I making socially?
To do something that makes me happy and sad with nostalgia
Am I ok?
How did I go from 3 proper meals a day to 'oh dear, should get something to eat but what?'
The future The past I must remember to be more present
Masturbation Sex Food Music
Using too much shampoo in the shower
Miss my cats
It hit me I really want to have kids. But is this ever gonna happen?
What am I doing with my life?
Have I done everything I should? Oh god I don't have much time
Be nothing Be everything
Find a way to carry on with my art
Why does this mental health care company care more about the money than the actual PEOPLE?
What is a sleeping pattern again?
Doing things I don't want to do and gearing my life towards what I believe in
Why are the poor getting poorer while the rich are getting richer?
Seeing my brother becoming a clone of my father, having children and mistreating them
Not being able to escape from my family curse, not being able to break the pattern
It concerns me that the word soul is missing from discourses about employability
Lose the control of my clear mind

Stories Next Door
2017

In collaboration with artist Esyllt George

Celebrating everyday happenings and community connections through story. An afternoon of sharing local stories, community collage making and the time honoured British ritual of tea and cake.

For Made in Roath Arts Festival

Take A Step
2015

Participants were invited to take part in this small act of intervention walking down a local shopping street putting one step before another bringing mindful disruption to frenetic unconscious life.

For Made in Roath Arts Festival