Artistic Statement
My journey as an artist started in immersive and physical theatre, using playful multimedia spaces to explore meaning and encourage audiences to question conventional frames of reference.
Using what I learnt through theatre making I began working on public engagement projects around ‘death positivity’ to help facilitate conversations around developing a healthy relationship with mortality through lectures and workshops, alongside using my experience as an artist to help members of the public process grief through creative means.
In the last several years I have began making autobiographical work, mainly through writing and spoken word. I have used my own personal experience as a cult survivor and yoga teacher to explore how art and movement can be used as an avenue to process trauma.
I am an associate artist with the theatre company ‘Brass Bathtub’, with collaborations including the ‘Tide Mills Heritage Project’ as a writer and performer and ‘100 Ways to Say Goodbye’ as an expert consultant and workshop designer.
Previous Work
2021-2024
100 Ways to Say Goodbye (writer/performer/expert consultant/workshop facilitator)
2020
Goodbye Brighton, I Love You (writer/ritual arranger)
2019
Deconstructing the Causes of Death Denial in Western Culture, Brighton Death Forum, Brighton Fringe Spiegel Gardens (speaker)
2017
Brighton Death Forum @ The Nightingale, The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, (event organiser, host)
2016
Funeral
[Working as funeral arranger & artist in residence at The Modern Funeral funeral parlour (2016-2020)]
2015
Durational Live Art Interactive Performance: Glastonbury, The Rabbit Hole (performer / collaborator)
FoulPlay Fantastic Foxhunt, FoulPlay Productions, Shambala Festival (performer)
2014
HOGP Xmas Drag Event, Performed “The True Meaning of Xmas”
Timekeeping Moth, Happy Clap Trap, Spiegeltent Brighton Fringe (performer)
2013
Issues, Fedoro Bridges, Blackfriars London (writer, director, performer).
Fish Pie, Colossal Crumbs / Annie Brooks, Brighton Festival (puppeteer)
2012
Fish Pie, Colossal Crumbs / Annie Brooks, Punched Brighton (puppeteer)
Fish Pie, Colossal Crumbs / Annie Brooks, Secret Garden Party (puppeteer)
Be With Me, Therese Steele / Slant, Camden People’s Theatre (performer)
Be With Me, Therese Steele / Slant, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (performer)
2011
Tony Robinson’s Gods and Monsters, Channel 4 (Tv), (actor)
The Living & The Dead, FoulPlay Productions, London (performer / collaborator)
What I wanted, Therese Steele /Slant, The Cochrane Theatre, (performer / collaborator)
Colossal Crumbs, Colossal Crumbs / Annie Brooks, Battersea Arts Centre (puppeteer)
2010
Colossal Crumbs, Colossal Crumbs / Annie Brooks, CSSD London (puppeteer)
Colossal Crumbs, Colossal Crumbs / Annie Brooks, Secret Garden Party (puppeteer)
Sitting Bear and the Man In The Moon’s Reflection, Inconvenient Spoof, Basement Brighton, (puppeteer)
The Office of Correspondence FoulPlay Productions, Secret Garden Party (performer / collaborator)
2009
SHUNTanimo Bay of Pigs, London Leisure Pirates, SHUNT vaults. London (performer)
Ulysses Black Initiative : Live Art / Ritual Actions (performer / collaborator)
Public Enemies, Live Art intervention, FoulPlay Productions (performer / collaborator)
Epoch! FoulPlay Productions, brighton Fringe (performer / collaborator)
The Office of Correspondence FoulPlay Productions, Brighton Fringe (performer / collaborator)
2008
Live Art / Ritual Actions with Ulysses Black, Brighton Various (performer / collaborator)
The Office of Correspondence FoulPlay Productions, Brighton Beach Club (performer)
The Office of Correspondence @ SHUNT, FoulPlay Productions, SHUNT Vaults, London (performer)
2007
The Devil; Chess: A Burlesque! FoulPlay Productions, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (performative / collaborator)