RESIDENCIES

Curiosity as Currency – Both in terms of value and exchange

I work across arts and non-arts contexts, with different ages and with participants to create work that hinges on the arousal of curiosity – manifesting in some form of poetry, theatre-making, performance, live art or story-telling.

Sometimes this work is called an arts-led residency, or community, or participant-led or socially-engaged. Clients, groups and partners I’ve worked with:

I absolutely love using provocations and hosting a call-and-response methodology that enables discovery through improvisation…but I do have a strong director’s vision and will easily lead if the idea does. I love writing for groups and devising with an ensemble. I feel strongly that we could connect more through non-arts contexts using our imagination as a conduit. I am passionate about working within challenging contexts to nurture the imaginative impulse, and on building work that resonates widely but can afford to be experimental. I work from a point of mutual respect and am a big fan of ambiguity, of dual meanings and creative exploration.

Download Skye’s CV by clicking here.

2020-03-14T18:15:40+00:00
TOONSPEAK YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE

Artistic Director

Skye created ‘Word of Mouth’ – the spoken word project for young people interested in performing their own writing. With a large cast of mor than 25 11-24yr olds, she wrote, – Read more…

2020-03-04T06:36:43+00:00
GLASGOW LIFE

Artist-in-Residence, Ward 18, Phase 1

Focused on arousing curiosity in places and spaces of waiting and working with established groups in the area. Purpose: to create connections through creativity that could explore, ‘what would residents – Read more…

2020-03-04T06:54:49+00:00
CAFE POET

Ampersand Cafe, Australian Poetry

Writing in situ, leaving anonymous poetry between the books on the shelves in envelopes labelled, ‘FOR YOU’.

2022-07-03T15:29:33+00:00
MAKING A MAP OF MY MISTAKES

Artist in Residence

An ongoing public art project which began as an exploration in art & healthcare with patients and staff of the New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow.

The first phase of the – Read more…

2020-02-12T12:31:25+00:00
ARTS IN THE CITY

Artist in Residence

Young people between foster care, in 18 care homes across Glasgow city. Working in collaboration with digital artist and founder of Sense Kaleidescopes Banglaore Akshayee Shetty, this was a rolling – Read more…

2020-02-12T12:33:04+00:00
WIGTOWN BOOK FESTIVAL

Writer in Residence

‘How we can connect across distances and art-form divides?’

I journeyed with those coming to see the visual art festival, Spring Fling, sharing performance poetry on the bus tour and performing a – Read more…

2020-03-15T15:49:26+00:00
HIDDEN SPACES

Artist in Residence

How can we knit communities together through a re-consideration of green spaces between us?

A collaboration focused on how we can re-imagine the often dis-used green spaces between residents and buildings in Glasgow’s – Read more…

2020-03-14T17:47:36+00:00
OUTSIDE ART

Street Art Project

Collaboration with artists Akshayee Shetty & Colin Begg. A partnership with The Tramway & Glasgow Life through Cashback for Communities

A year-long unique mix of art-forms that sought to re-imagine the urban environment – Read more…

2020-02-12T12:32:33+00:00
VISIBLE FICTIONS THEATRE COMPANY

Playwright in Residence

Connecting with students at the then Greenock Academy (Gourock), to inspire writing for performance. Techniques included using drawing as a tool to explore classical playwrighting structures. Out of this residency – Read more…

2020-03-03T14:04:13+00:00
SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST

Live Literature – Poet / Playwright in Residence

I’ve worked on a range of different approaches to writing both poetry and playwrighting within schools with a huge age range. Key to these approaches is – Read more…