About

Hello. I’m a visual artist, performer and teacher based in Penarth on the edge of Cardiff in Wales.

I use my skills with visual language, music and words to help others. The work helps people to connect, communicate, reflect, play, and tell stories, in person, on screen or on the page. I help to create artistic and conversational spaces, and often mentor creative practitioners. Recent project themes range from patient-informed hospital design and eco-literacy to overcoming creative blocks through visual narrative. With poet Luca Paci I created the touring Self Help Show and accompanying book Self Help I(s)land (2022, Hadron Press).

My practice taps into working in creative education for over 30 years and a lifetime of drawing and making music.

Photo: David Sinden

Bio:
After training as a music and drama teacher at Goldsmiths College, I worked in arts education across secondary, FE, HE, and public arts, and as a freelance animation designer and illustrator. I set up the BA Illustration at Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2007, working as Senior Lecturer till 2020. I returned to freelancing in January 2021 to draw, perform and make new work.

Recent Clients and Partners:
Cambridge Children’s Hospital and Cancer Research Hospital
Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust
Cardiff University School of Medicine / Phoenix Project
Cardiff University School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Clwstwr/Cardiff Animation Festival
Coleridge in Wales Ltd.
The Godown, Kuala Lumpur / Ivor Davies
Gothenburg Opera, Sweden
Fiona Macbeth/An Inside Story
Luca Paci: Hadron Press & Self Help Show
Mothers of Africa/Ministry of Health, Zambia
Music and Theatre for All, London
Omidaze Productions
Saltbox Training and Events, Somerset
Turner House Gallery, Glamorgan
Unbound, Oxford
University of Bristol / FLiNT.org.uk / Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
University of Namibia (UNAM)
W11 Youth Opera, London

Roles
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University, 2021-24;
Co-founder of Hadron Press, launched May 2022;
Co-founder of the Illustration Research network 2010;
Associate Editor, Journal of Illustration (Intellect) 2013-20

Languages spoken
English, French, Welsh

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