Catching Lives Paper Sessions
Canterbury
2025
Catching Lives, a wonderful charity supporting people experiencing homelessness in Canterbury, invited me to deliver three paper- and text-based workshop sessions. With only two hours per session, changing participants, diverse and often complex backgrounds, and limited materials, we worked quickly and kept the activities simple—creating quilled dream hangings and a collaborative paper patchwork quilt.
The focus throughout was on quiet, repetitive making and sharing stories as we worked. I found the experience incredibly rewarding; the participants’ good humour and willingness to give things a try really put things in perspective for me.
Family Drop-in Workshop for Folkestone Triennial Community Engagement
Folkestone Triennial
2020
I was asked to deliver a family drop-in workshop inspired by the new Triennial sculpture by Richard Deacon, in Kingsnorth Gardens. I devised a simple session called Polygon Play, where families could work together to create their own park-sculpture maquettes using paper, card, and found text. It never fails to amaze me how many different directions people take when given just paper and glue!
A Goddess' Cloak should never have Seams
All Souls Church, Cheriton High St.
Feb 2020
An interactive project for Strange Cargo's Winter Light Festival. Inspired by a Chinese fairytale promoting good craftsmanship and attention to detail. Over the course of 2 nights, participants filed through the church adding loops of neon 'stitches' to a cloak. At the end of the festival, a 'goddess' was selected to wear the cloak and parade down the street with her attendants in celebration of the work created together.
Neon tape, protective blanket foil, UV light
Testatment (Bible Weave)
Katse Kerk, Nord beveland, Netherlands
August 2018
An invited interactive residency, part of 'Kunstspoor' Art Festival. Over the course of a week, visitors to the Church watched The Old Testament of the English Bible being folded and 'woven' into an intricate herringbone pattern on a roll or 'cloth', which fell from the pulpit. The work was finally finished in 2020 and displayed at SoShiro House in Marylebone by JaggedArt.
Pages from Old Testament, acrylic paint, lining paper, acid-free glue
Paper Play
Block 67
2017
Commissioned by The Creative Foundation in Folkestone, a family drop-in workshop, building on cardboard bases with a limited colour pallet. The pyramids grew off the cardboard and across the windows of Block 67.
Fleet
Southwark Town Hall
2005
Project funded by Camberwell Arts. Moulds of children’s feet collected from all over the borough and installed for Camberwell Arts Week. The many coloured pairs of feet ‘marched’ up the left side of the Town hall and then down again the right side, referencing the Pied Piper of Hamlyn and the vast creative resource that lies in the next generation.
Memory Mapping
Nunhead Festival
2007
A giant map, filled in by local residents, based entirely on what they remember.