I’ve been working creatively with communities for over 15 years, using the arts as a way to explore challenges, build connections, and create collective responses to the issues people face within their lives and environments.
Over the last decade, this work has increasingly developed across two interconnected areas of practice.
Trauma-informed arts practice with children and young people, particularly those who are care experienced or living within complex support systems. This work explores how creativity can support emotional expression, identity formation, communication, confidence, and recovery from trauma through participatory and relational approaches to making.
Creative placemaking through urban arts practice, using graffiti, street art, public art, and participatory design as accessible tools for place-based conversation, agency building, and collective storytelling. This work focuses on how communities can meaningfully shape, question, and reimagine the spaces they live within while building confidence, skills, visibility, and ownership over public space.
Across both areas, my practice centres participation, collaboration, and cultural rights, recognising creativity not simply as a form of expression, but as a tool for connection, reflection, advocacy, and systems change.