
Community Projects
'Uprooted' 2019

Uprooted is my next collaboration piece working with adults and young women exploring their experiences when being uprooted. This piece will also explore the connection we have to nature and how trees communicate through their root system helping each other to survive, they are not dissimilar to humans in this way.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T2a9dHr2kiA




'My Name Is' 2018

home is a place where someone lives permanently. Homelessness affects 320,000 people in the UK according to the housing charity Shelter. It is impossible to go into our cities or towns and not see people experiencing homelessness. There are of course the people you can’t see, the invisible people who are sofa surfing or living in cars or temporary accommodation.
I have worked with individuals, groups with lived experience of homelessness, also with homeless organisations to create art sculptures. These sculptures have gone on to be exhibited in galleries and festivals in and around Manchester including the Whitworth.
These pieces were created to raise awareness and empathy for fellow humans who have experienced and in many cases suffered from having no place to live, often taking refuge on our streets, sofas, cars and in tents to survive. The individual head sculptures titled ‘my name is’ tell of each person’s experiences from birth to now of how their journeys led them to and away from experiencing homelessness. With the use of photos and memorabilia set into pockets in the head, pyrography timelines burnt into the slice of a tree and imprinted poems, the sculptures reflect each personal and individual story.
'Are you sitting comfortably '

Are You Sitting Comfortably is simultaneously one of my most personal and relatable works. Most people who participated in this piece proved the point that society wants and needs to discuss homelessness and they want answers.
The film footage from The Whitworth 2018 will be shown at the Didsbury Arts Festival this June 2019.
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
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Helen Locke who wrote this piece In The Guardian also participated in this piece.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/28/is-art-a-way-to-fight-homelessness-manchester-is-betting-yes.


DO YOU HAVE A CREATIVE IDEA TO ENGAGE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD

