I work across visual arts, writing, producing and performance, and I live & work on the North coast of Cornwall in the SW UK.
I believe art is vitally important to human beings: fostering wonder and connection - with each other, and with our wider world.
I love making and presenting unexpected art in unusual places: surprising and delighting audiences and playing with scale, time, and movement.
As a freelance arts graduate with creative management & cultural leadership training, a diverse background and a polymath's approach to my practice, I'm thinking a great deal at present about the place where arts & creativity, landscape & coast, community and female leadership & experience intersect; and about how artists, particularly women artists, need more traction in helping shape and illuminate the world differently. How women's voices need to be heard, their ideas valued, empowered and manifested.
making & teaching
As a visual artist, I work in 2D & 3D; I create large scale processive lanterns & builds for festivals & events; and I lead creative learning experiences for all ages & abilities. More
performing
As a Spotlight actress I work in Film & TV, site-specific theatre & live art, voice-over and as a vocalist; and I create performative elements for my large art commissions. More
producing
TIMEPIECE brings place-based historical stories and characters to life through an experimental combination of illuminated arts, new writing, song, live theatre - and Time Travel!
This concept launched with TIMEPIECE: Tempus Fugitives! in Bodmin, a new show devised with the help of a small creative team. Taking audiences on a Time Travelling journey at both the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes 2026, we presented five fascinating characters from local history and shared the heritage stories behind Bodmin's curious connections with Time. This work has been kindly supported by Experience Bodmin, FEAST, IntoBodmin, Bodmin Town Council, St Petroc’s, Bodmin Keep and other local partners.
As well as re-running and developing our Bodmin show in other formats including a new Time Tour, we’re working on new re-tellings of Arthurian legends and tales for sharing with audiences in Tintagel next year, and are also keen to bring to life interesting female characters from times past in other places.
We'd love to bring this concept to YOU. Get in touch if you're interested in talking with us or commissioning an idea. Could we turn YOUR village, town or city into a Time Machine?!
InTheSaltSpace is an initiative founded and first piloted with key partners in Cornwall - including the North Cornwall National Trust and Bude Climate Partnership - in 2024. It brings together women in coastal and other wild spaces to purposely explore creativity, community empowerment, climate concern, time and change.
It also includes The Tide Library - a real resource comprising over 100 book titles and volumes, covering an array of interconnected topics, each of which also convenes where the wider InTheSaltSpace concept does.
Since its launch, InTheSaltSpace has involved and inspired a host of wonderful participants and collaborated with a range of other partners in the SW, including further work with the National Trust, the Two Bays Trust, the Seedlings Trust and the Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust in East Devon. We look forward to widening our collaborations and impacts in 2027 and beyond. More on the InTheSaltSpace website
