Future Shed Lead as part of Green & Healthy Frome : A unique partnership between Edventure Frome, Frome Medical Practice and Frome Town Council taking action on climate and health in our town. Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund through the Climate Action Fund. Future Shed provides and holds a space for community organising and community-led development focusing on ways to respond to the climate crisis in our market town. Future Shed provides support, space and coaching for groups and projects around food, textile reuse, wellbeing, seeds and growing and other ideas and initiatives that come forward from the community.www.greenhealthyfuturefrome.org

Green & Healthy Future for Frome : A unique partnership between Edventure Frome, Frome Medical Practice and Frome Town Council on climate and health. Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund through the Climate Action Fund. www.greenhealthyfuturefrome.org

Artist making live performance, often through collaborative work with people and place.Most recent work: Common Salt with artist Sheila Ghelani.Common Salt is a performance around a table – a ‘show and tell’. It explores the colonial, geographical and natural history of England and India taking an expansive and emotional time-travel, from the first Enclosure Act and the start of the East India Company in the 1600s, to 21st century narratives of trade, empire and culture. Arts Council funded, Common Salt has toured nationally since 2018 to museums, libraries and arts venues including Royal Museums Greenwich, Museum of London Docklands, Glasgow's Hunterian, Lancaster, Manchester, Bristol, Reading. In 2024 the work will show in Bath, Birmingham, Norwich and Reading.New work in development through 2024: Atmospheric Forces with Sheila Ghelani.Initiating and producing both individual and collaborative projects, I draw on 40 years of professional experience as an artist, producer and project manager. Commissions include: Gob Squad (Berlin), Battersea Arts Centre London, You & Your Work Bristol, Earth Festival 2012, The National Trust, ANTI Festival Finland, Somerset Art Works, Ashden Directory, B-side multimedia festival, PVA Medialab, Bridport Arts Centre, Aune Head Arts, Dorset AONB, and Somerset Wildlife Trust.Based in Frome Somerset, I’ve worked on projects across the UK, particularly in the South West region and internationally including Georgia and Finland. In 2016 I was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship to research social arts practice and participation in public green space in Berlin DE, Portland US and Vancouver CA.

Activity Lead planning and leading the participatory programme for National Lottery Heritage Funded park restoration project.

Communications, environmental education, volunteer management, design and participation. Project Manager on Urban Heat, a partnership project with Policy Studies Institute, Westminster University funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, managing the local case study in Hounslow on community resilience to heatwaves (2015).Project Manager for 'Springtimes' education, art and environment participatory programme to involve people across age and background in nature across Richmond Borough, London, through walks and talks, art and active exploration (2016).

Project Manager for ‘The Eel Pie Island Music Project‘, a Heritage Lottery Funded project celebrating the music history of Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, South West London through an exhibition, film documentary, oral history collection, a book, education and training, and live music events, produced by Aurora Metro Arts and Media

Teaching includes: Associate Lecturer at Dartington College of Arts (2001-2010), Visiting Lecturer at Winchester University and CSSD, and contextual practice intensives at Royal Holloway University London and University College Falmouth.Teaching contemporary devised collaborative theatre, both studio and site based practice across the curriculum and years on the BA Undergraduate course at Dartington College of Arts in Devon (merged / relocated to UCF July 2010).