I deliver workshops across settings and communities for people to play an active role in the development of projects, art-making and exploring questions.
Get in touch via my contact page if you would like to discuss a workshop commission.
Get in touch via my contact page if you would like to discuss a workshop commission.
2025
+ V&A Storehouse x Bow Arts [London, UK]
With Walthamstow College and members of the public.
Using the V&A archives on climate change, climate justice and the anthropocene to explore the visual narratives of climate change through drawing, collage and cyanotype printing to create a collaborative parachute.
+ Ocean Advocate Summit [Bristol, UK]
2024
+ Artlink Inishowen + London [UK + Ireland]
Weaving Brigid’s crosses using foraged willow from Walthamstow Wetlands with a group of young people in North London.
2023
+ Shared Spaces, LAF [Pforzheim, Germany]
+ TERRRA School of Planetary Gardeners [Brezoi, Romania]
A trans-local initiative dedicated to ecological transition and resilience. Based in Brezoi, it connects local and international practitioners through hands-on, alternative education focused on planetary gardening, rural knowledge, interdisciplinary exchange, and practical responses to the climate crisis.
+ SongMaps [Rye, UK]
Interdisciplinary group
SongMaps Rye is an innovative pilot programme created by StrongBack Productions and partners Speaking Volumes in collaboration with Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
The project brought together artists- poets and writers, a composer, a sound artist and a visual artist- scientists, conservationists, a local fisherman, an anthropologist and intergenerational participants, to learn how Rye is being affected by changes due to climate events. Educational talks were followed by artist-led creative workshops and Open Space problem-solving workshops. Taking inspiration from the science, natural heritage and conservation of the local area, the creative team led participants in mapping the changes and proposing solutions to address the issues that are most pressing to coastal communities on the front line of climate change and rising seas. Post-workshop, each artist then captured the participants’ responses along with their personal responses to the talks, shaping these into their own songmaps that are presented below.
This experimental programme of collective learning and creativity has allowed us to explore and discover the vital role that the arts can play in communities to facilitate learning, to harness community engagement, to propose creative collective solutions and communicate these effectively and meaningfully as we adapt to climate change.
2022
+ Groundwork [London, UK]
A series of weekly workshops over two years responding to social Workshop series for Groundwork London exploring inter-cultural exchange around the Almanac (seasonal guide to the year).
> Healing
A collaborative artwork inspired by the paintings of Abel Rodríguez, who uses art as a medium to preserve his knowledge of the Nonuya rainforest after the Colombian armed conflict and natural resource exploitation forced Rodríguez and his family from native land to Bogotá. The 64 tiles were painted by the Together South community, and stitched together with Sashiko visible mending, a Japanese technique which heals the artwork together. Together South supports refugees, non-EU migrants and unaccompanied young asylum seekers in South & East London, Kent and Hastings.
Press: Shelby Studios Art Activism Zine
Photographs from the Horniman Museum & Gardens exhibition and collaborative workshops.
+ Imperial College [London, UK]
Indoor Outdoor Continuum development workshops
Holiday and after-school clubs across West London
+ Streetspace
Between January and May 2022, Street Space are working alongside Newham Council to engage with local communities to shape the future of Beckton Parks. The four month engagement programme is the first step towards the creation of the Beckton Parks Masterplan, a vision for 36 hectares of green space between the wards of Beckton and Custom House - including Beckton District Park, New Beckton park, Beckton Corridor, Newham City Farm Site and King George V Park.
Planet Beckton
2021
+ Sussex Wildlife Trust [Rye, UK]
2018
+ Ignite [Nottingham, UK]
+ V&A Storehouse x Bow Arts [London, UK]
With Walthamstow College and members of the public.
Using the V&A archives on climate change, climate justice and the anthropocene to explore the visual narratives of climate change through drawing, collage and cyanotype printing to create a collaborative parachute.
+ Ocean Advocate Summit [Bristol, UK]
2024
+ Artlink Inishowen + London [UK + Ireland]
Weaving Brigid’s crosses using foraged willow from Walthamstow Wetlands with a group of young people in North London.
2023
+ Shared Spaces, LAF [Pforzheim, Germany]
+ TERRRA School of Planetary Gardeners [Brezoi, Romania]
A trans-local initiative dedicated to ecological transition and resilience. Based in Brezoi, it connects local and international practitioners through hands-on, alternative education focused on planetary gardening, rural knowledge, interdisciplinary exchange, and practical responses to the climate crisis.
+ SongMaps [Rye, UK]
Interdisciplinary group
SongMaps Rye is an innovative pilot programme created by StrongBack Productions and partners Speaking Volumes in collaboration with Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
The project brought together artists- poets and writers, a composer, a sound artist and a visual artist- scientists, conservationists, a local fisherman, an anthropologist and intergenerational participants, to learn how Rye is being affected by changes due to climate events. Educational talks were followed by artist-led creative workshops and Open Space problem-solving workshops. Taking inspiration from the science, natural heritage and conservation of the local area, the creative team led participants in mapping the changes and proposing solutions to address the issues that are most pressing to coastal communities on the front line of climate change and rising seas. Post-workshop, each artist then captured the participants’ responses along with their personal responses to the talks, shaping these into their own songmaps that are presented below.
This experimental programme of collective learning and creativity has allowed us to explore and discover the vital role that the arts can play in communities to facilitate learning, to harness community engagement, to propose creative collective solutions and communicate these effectively and meaningfully as we adapt to climate change.
2022
+ Groundwork [London, UK]
A series of weekly workshops over two years responding to social Workshop series for Groundwork London exploring inter-cultural exchange around the Almanac (seasonal guide to the year).
> Healing
A collaborative artwork inspired by the paintings of Abel Rodríguez, who uses art as a medium to preserve his knowledge of the Nonuya rainforest after the Colombian armed conflict and natural resource exploitation forced Rodríguez and his family from native land to Bogotá. The 64 tiles were painted by the Together South community, and stitched together with Sashiko visible mending, a Japanese technique which heals the artwork together. Together South supports refugees, non-EU migrants and unaccompanied young asylum seekers in South & East London, Kent and Hastings.
Press: Shelby Studios Art Activism Zine
Photographs from the Horniman Museum & Gardens exhibition and collaborative workshops.
+ Imperial College [London, UK]
Indoor Outdoor Continuum development workshops
Holiday and after-school clubs across West London
+ Streetspace
Between January and May 2022, Street Space are working alongside Newham Council to engage with local communities to shape the future of Beckton Parks. The four month engagement programme is the first step towards the creation of the Beckton Parks Masterplan, a vision for 36 hectares of green space between the wards of Beckton and Custom House - including Beckton District Park, New Beckton park, Beckton Corridor, Newham City Farm Site and King George V Park.
Planet Beckton
2021
+ Sussex Wildlife Trust [Rye, UK]
2018
+ Ignite [Nottingham, UK]