I am a performance artist and have been making performance since 2014, I am also a director/ outside eye, mental health activist and consultant and work to reduce stigma, and barriers for people (like myself) with additional needs due to their disabilities.

I am the artistic director & co founder of Many Minds a Bristol based mental health charity that make performances that put people who identify with experiences of mental ill-health in the driver’s seat as a way to break down stigma and trigger equality.

I make performance that communicates and expresses feelings, creating playful supportive environments that invite people to connect with each other and experience a version of these feelings together. My work is deeply connected with the ‘live’ moment and often cannot take place without the audience who take a role in its live creation

In order to communicate feelings I am interested in creating a stimulating multi-sensory performance environments, that encourages audiences to move away from trying to ‘understand’ and towards an open and receptive state to experience the performance, forming multiple meanings and questions. My work is usually non-narrative and might begin with an idea from an image or movement.

I enjoy engaging with ‘the taboo’ or things that people don’t often talk about approaching universal and sticky topics with humour, irreverence, and compassion. I have previously made work about femininity, depression, anxiety, grief, connection, mental health being a super power, nature and music’s impact on mental health.

I work in a multidisciplinary way collaborating with a variety of creatives from within and outside of the theatre/ performance field. My major artistic collaborators have been composers like verity standen, video, designers, Black Bark films, a women led film company interested in developing the female gaze, lighting designers, set designers, fashion designers, directors, dacers and sound designers. The work we make is collagic; begging, borrowing, and stealing from fine art (specifically installation work), film, performance art, dance, fashion, theatre and cabaret. I have performed a variety of theatre, bar, club and festival venues as well as non-theatre spaces including, Bristol Old Vic, Camden People’s Theatre, Salisbury International Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe, Glastonbury Festival & VAULT.

As a director I deliver drama workshops and direct performances with a variety of groups. I have worked with professional theatre companies, in schools, universities, youth groups but predominantly work with mental health charities.

As a mental health activist/ access consultant I work to reduce stigma, and barriers for people with additional mental health needs. I work as a consultant advising organizations, buildings, employers and artists on how to reduce barriers to creativity/working in the arts and support mental wellbeing. I also have mentored individual artists and worked with them as they create work with wider teams. I  have chaired and appeared on panel discussions, at conferences and worked with healthcare professionals, arts organisations, charities and services.