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Creative works include
- Fionnlocha Wild Nature Sanctuary, Creative Director www.fionnlocha.com,
- Storytelling and Comedy Support for Palestinian and Irish storytellers, with the Tiny Drop of Magic truck at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown, Co Roscommon
- Comedic Samhain events at Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre, Kenagh, Co Longford and the National Famine Museum, Strokestown, Co Roscommon with Scéalta Beo
- Geo & Glad CIC, Creative Director
- Cos Props, London, puppet maker, puppet film design for John Bright: The Bamboo Princess
- Spitting Image TV show, puppeteer
- Douglina, Don’t Stop the Dance, Puppeteer, Divisor of Puppet Show
- Art Director Assistant, various music videos, London, Brighton and Yorkshire
- Face Pack Theatre, Clown and Physical Theatre Company Puppet and Set Maker
- Feral Theatre, Silent Clown, Festival of Death at South Bank Centre, London and Funeral for lost species in a Church in Brighton for Brighton Fringe Festival
- Same Sky, Street Carnival Artist, Burning the Clocks, large scale puppets and lanterns, Brighton and London
- Carousel Brighton High Spin Dance Troop, various shows and creative workshop facilitator
- Russell Beck Studios, Maker, large whale sculpture built around a rickshaw for Lord Mayor’s Show, London
- National Centre for Circus Arts, London, Aerial training for the Paralympic Games
- Performer in 2012 Paralympic Games (Sway Pole artist) https://youtu.be/GV0RbFy1gG4?is=0eEv-eOuRJmbeEZp https://YouTube.be/diBWRtSDMDs
- No Holds Barred and Aim to Fly UK, facilitator/performer, Deaf and disabled aerial circuses https://noholdscircus.wordpress.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoWlqLs2L0I
- Circus Connetica, Clown Trapeze Show in Norway
- Burning the Books tour with Alinah Azadeh
- Pop Up Studios and Permaculture Garden, Founder member http://www.pop-up-studio.org
- Do You Speak Seagull, performer, co-director, show for schools, poetry, nature connection and sign language
- Communication Support Worker (BSL) in education and art settings
Freelance Creative Facilitator with:
- ONCA network (https://onca.org.uk/), creative faciliatator; Blackbird Film Festival for Social and Environmental Change at ONCA, co-director, curator, http://onca.org.uk/pastexhibitions/blackbirds-film-festival-2016/ http:/www.blackbirdsfilmfestival.co.events
- Moving Sounds, Director and Creative Facilitator https://www.movingsounds.org
- Cultural Emergence Foundation Course – devising and facilitating with Keith Ellis, keithellismusicproduction.co.uk
- ReBoot the Roots https://www.facebook.com/rebootroots/
- Eco Dharma, https://www.ecodharma.com co-facilitated on regular Theatre of the Oppressed trainings and co-designed and facilitated the ’Creating Resilience’ course at Eroles (https://eroles project.org) a partner project of EcoDharma, for refugees and people working in refugee camps. They co-facilitating a 9 day workshop at EcoDharma for TGEU -Transgender Europe ( tgeu.org) entitled ‘Sustaining Resistance and Wellbeing’
- The Ulex Project www.ulexproject.org
- Diversity and Accessibility Partner at ONCA gallery for arts and ecology http://onca.org.uk/, ongoing collaborations with Deaf artists/teachers Louise Gibson and Parveen Dunlin of ROCK www.rocksl.co.uk , www.workingwithothers.org/routes-of-communication
Holistic Arts
- Evolutionary movement and trauma release training with, Caryn Mc Hose resourcesinmovement.com and Claude Coldy www.danzasensibile.com
- Yoga Teacher over 30 years experience, teaching creative yoga to children and adults in groups and individually. Creating and running programmes for hospitals, schools and for 3 years at a Birth clinic . Trained in India, Nepal, Bali and for 2 years at the Mandala Yoga Ashram, Wales www.mandalayoga.net
- Co-designed/developed the Yoga Therapy Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital http so://www.chisuk.org.uk
- Over 30 years meditation experience: Insight meditation http://www.gaiahouse.co.uk , Open Dharma www.opendharma.org Www.dharmaseed.org
- Buddhafield Family Retreat – Arts and Ritual team -performer http://www.buddhafield.com/?retreats=family-friendly
- Permaculture designer / gardener / fruit tree specialist https://www.permaculture.org.uk
- Permaculture teacher in Ireland with Scéalta Beo Permaculture (https://scealtabeopermaculture.blogspot.com) and for Brighton Permaculture Trust (https://brightonpermaculture.org.uk/). Cultural Emergence training workshops internationally, including the first Irish one in Donegal (Jon Young – 8shields.com and Looby McNamara loobymacnamara.com)
- London and Brighton Buddhist Centre, LGBTQIA+ and GSRD Retreats, Body Work, Movement, Creative Yoga and Music
- Unity Studios, Yoga Teacher Trainer
Education
- BTEC in 3D design, Distinction, Leeds Art College
- HND in Theatre/TV Set Design, Merit, Ipswich College of Art
- Advanced Diploma in Puppetry, Distinction, Central School of Speech and Drama, London
- Levels 1, 2 and Pre-3 British Sign Language (BSL)
- Permaculture Teacher Training with a focus on Children
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