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, directed and devised the play Lost & Found which explored the question, ‘can you lose what you - Read more...
CAFE POET Ampersand Cafe, Australian Poetry Writing in situ, leaving anonymous poetry between the books on the shelves in envelopes labelled, ‘FOR YOU’.
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 south-side of Pollockshields. My involvement included the visual art intervention of Fragile tape around tree stumps - Read more...
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 project uses a public projection of macro-photography in the Atrium cafe / foyer space of the - Read more...
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 through spontaneous co-creation sparked by dialogue. The question mark was used a kind of tag or - Read more...
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 program of cross-artform approaches to arousing curiosity in lived spaces. Techniques included macro-photography, new writing, spoken word - Read more...
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 how we can nurture our creative writing through curiosity and embodied poetry. Some students have performed their - Read more...
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 came the new play for young people, premiered at the Tron Theatre: Mish Gorecki Goes Missing. - Read more...
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 newly written 45-minute poem with audiences at the Wigtown Book Festival. - Read more...
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 want from an artist in residence? What is the artist’s job and does it apply?' Work included - Read more...