WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
I’ve worked both in outdoor street art projects and within schools, community groups, established theatres and youth theatre groups.
My approach is always dictated by who is in the room. So, different methods emerge according to the group and what it is we are seeking to explore.
I introduce classical playwrighting models through drawing, work on ways of using movement to shape our text, on writing poetry, how to flesh out the truth in our fiction, on writing our own experience, of shaping spoken word, of devising big themes with a big cast, of small and intimate interventions in public spaces, on working with auto-biographical material, on radio plays, on voice work, playwrighting and making your own solo performance. All of it is led from who is in the room.
- Glasgow Life -Artist in Residence, Ward 18, Riddrie Primary, families of those waiting to see family members in HMP Ballarnark.
- Toonspeak Young Peoples Theatre- Artistic Director, Lost & Found, Seven Signs, Word of Mouth
- Visible Fictions Theatre Company – playwright-in-residence
- Scottish Book Trust – poet-in-residence, Croy Primary Inverness
- Wigtown Book Festival – writer-in-residence
- Arts in the City- artist-in-residence (foster care / young folk)
- Outside Art – street art project (The Tramway / Glasgow Life)
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…
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…
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…
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…
CAFE POET
Ampersand Cafe, Australian Poetry
Writing in situ, leaving anonymous poetry between the books on the shelves in envelopes labelled, ‘FOR YOU’.
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…
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…
MAKING A MAP OF MY MISTAKES
Artist in Residence
An ongoing research 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 – 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 – 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 – Read more…