Socially-engaged, temporary and site-specific practice...

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2010 / Making Work in a Disparate Arts Infrastructure / Talk on the vital contribution that artist led activity can make to a dispersed rural arts infrastructure, and the value of dialogue across practices. Touching on how the lack of traditional provision for artists can be beneficial for certain types of site-responsive practice. For Alias, Somerset

2009 / A Certain Kind of Death: Rebirth in Digbeth / In conversation with Alberto Duman, exploring notions of ritual and memorial in the context of urban regeneration. We discussed regeneration as a change akin to death and rebirth, and the treatment of local people as mourners with grief to process. At Eastside Projects, Birmingham

2009 / The Funeral of the Site / Three month residency based in an abandoned plot in Digbeth, the industrial heart of Birmingham. Those with a social and historical connection to the area contributed various elements to a 'funeral', to mark and process the sense of loss that has been aroused through regeneration. This ceremony was not documented, and now solely exists within the oral tradition of the area.

2009 / Come across Stitch / A series of large-scale craft-based interventions around Clapham, exploring the social affect of the loss of craft in labour. For the Papered Parlour, as part of London Design Festival

2009 / Probably Liverpool's Best Apartment Location / Catalysing an artist led project resulting in a group show of 'uncommissioned public art' on a derelict site in Liverpool City Centre

2009 / Art Outside the Box / Article about the pseudo void of the white cube in relation to non gallery based practice. Commissioned by .Cent magazine

2008 / Art in the Car Park / An artist led group show in response to an abandoned car sales office and repairs shop, resulting in a body of new sculpture that wove into the social, economic, political, historical and geographical situation of the site and the city at large

2008 / BAA / Goldsmiths Expo Award / Development consultant and project coordinator for the commission of two temporary, site specific artworks for Heathrow Terminal 5. Student artists were mentored by Goldsmiths alumna Cathy de Monchaux, international public artist Andrew Shoben and the BAA Team

2008 / Lost in Translation: Percent for Art / Dissertation exploring the relationship between public funding and artistic autonomy, tracing the influence of the Artist Placement Group on Percent for Art schemes

2007 / The Scales of Socially-Engaged Practice: Towards a Shared Language / Dissertation outlining the need to develop a shared language for socially engaged practice across the fields of art, architecture, design and activism