I am enjoying having time out of my schedule to learn a new printing technique with the mixed media Artist Lindsey Tyson. It is an online course, and I can manage my time whilst freelancing I recommend the course, and we have a lovely group Zoom meeting with artists from around the world. To find …
The creative intervention aimed to target specific points within Dewsbury Town Centre and its periphery to gain information from the public about their thoughts, hopes and aspirations for Dewsbury as part of the regeneration project Stage one was a guerrilla-style intervention named Invisible action. I kept a distance from the chairs, observing and taking photographic …
`Collect Your Belongings” was a community project by Six Million Plus Trust to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day and Remembering Srebrenica. The refugee community of Kirklees worked in collaboration with community artists to share stories about a precious object which they would choose if they had to quickly leave their home to flee and find refuge. …
In a freelance capacity as a costumier, I have enjoyed working in the wardrobe and the props department of Leeds Playhouse to support staff in the completion of costumes and properties for theatrical performances, and also completing costumes in my fully equipt studio. Theatre products include Bollywood Jane, Privates on Parade, Lion, Witch, and the …
Commissioned by Leeds Playhouse (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Literary department to engage with the youth theatre to design, source, and make their costume for three individual performances in three different settings across the city. The first performance was situated outside the Playhouse. Aliens had landed and were intended to take over the planet. To define the …
Commissioned to remake the Snowman Family for Faceless Theatres festive community performances. Due to the physical demands of the exterior performance, the body of each puppet was showing signs of wear and tear. The accessories adorning the puppets were not required to be remade. Faceless provided the body templates for the father, mother, and child, …
‘We Stand Together’, by six million plus charitable trust performance project highlighting the plight of displaced people around the world, current and historical. Taking influence from the rich textile heritage of North Kirklees, shoddy was used to design button discs with representational images sewn onto from countries that are or have experienced war or genocide. …
(dys)function(ing) performance explores scenographic materials, feminine objects, and the fragility of the human condition. The intimate one to one performances invited guests to partake in the ritual of tea drinking and explore the objects on display. The collection of curated objects held significant semiotic signage on personal history which initiated conversations to occur between the …
This explorative, collaborative group performance explored various sensory dimensions, of space and time. Taking initial inspiration from the life story of the French inventor, Louis Le Prince, who lived in Leeds from 1866 and who disappeared in 1890. The performance took the audience members on a physical journey through various zones that performed various sensory …
6 Million+ Charity Trust organise the annual Holocaust Memorial Day in Kirklees. Every year refugees and asylum seekers who are making Kirklees their home come together with residents to make a new large-scale puppet to portray a persecuted demographic. The Weeping Sisters consist of Kitty representing the Jewish community, Piroz the Kurdish community, Hava the …