Consultancy

My consultancy has always been informed by my creative practice and many years experience of working across disciplines, national boundaries and cultural contexts.  It is led by a passionate commitment to collaborative and partnership working and developing a shared sense of trust that comes from openness in communication with both clients and teams.

Arts and Culture
Clients have included:

The work itself has included:

• advising a wide range of funders and arts institutions, across UK, EU and beyond on access and participation in culture and the arts, with a specific focus on sharing power and exploring the role of arts in inter-cultural dialogue, cultural heritage, trans-national and cross-border working and community cohesion
• developing and delivering artist educations in formal academic and through, informal learning initiatives and sharings of practice focused on collaborative and social arts practice and critical pedagogy
• researching and writing think pieces and guides to collaborative and social arts theory and practice, particularly for programmes working with more marginalised groups including elders, young people, community practitioners, migrants both internationally and within the UK
• evaluating and acting as critical friend to a wide range of collaborative and social art programmes, using creative and arts based approaches, across EU, UK and beyond
• acting as creative producer and mentor/trainer for social arts projects aimed at creating links between communities and academic institutions
• developing and delivering learning programmes for artists, creative producers wanting to work more closely with communities
• acting as creative producer for programmes focused on inter-generational conversations between women in the cultural sector

Corporate and Public Sector
Clients have included:

The work itself has covered arts based approaches to:

• individual coaching
• leadership programmes
• effective communication
• women’s programmes
• personal impact