Visual artist, HCPC registered art therapist, educator and refugee charity CEO, based in London, England. For more than three decades has worked as an art therapist in NHS child and adolescent mental health, inner city schools and community settings, and on numerous socially engaged art projects and interventions, exhibiting in galleries, site-specific and public settings in the UK and internationally. Through the privilege of extensive collaborations with other artists and art therapists, has co-led two contemporary arts projects based in East London: the drawing shed and On Site Arts; and co-led projects, consultation and training in contexts of conflict and upheaval, co-writing ‘The Portable Studio’ and ‘Art Therapy and Political Violence’ under Art Therapy Initiative. CEO of Art Refuge since 2016, works regularly with people displaced and in crisis contexts in the UK and internationally, writing collaboratively about practice and ideas, including the development of The Community Table model. Particular focus on displacement, community, crisis support, co-production and social justice.