A Stitch In Time is a collaborative project between Coram and The Foundling Museum, as part of the Voices Through Time Programme. Working alongside young people with care experience, inspired by the foundlings’ dormitories and their own bedrooms, the group created a collaborative multi-layered bedspread for the Foundling Hospital bed. Including Aaron Cross, Robyn Hughes, Jake Hartley, Paige Michel and Oliver Jordan, the participants responded to the billet books and the token hidden within its folds, the idea of ‘folding’ dreams and reality as well as bedsheets became key to the group. Exploring textile processes through pattern, drawing and creative writing, each member produced their own sample book. The final bedspread invites interaction, to be opened-up and unfolded to reveal the textile pages from each participant.
In 2019 I worked with ACAVA on their Flourish programme, a family provision for the North Kensington community directly and indirectly affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.
I delivered a talk as part of this symposium at Queen Mary, University of London.
For 2018-19 I was Artist in Resident at Woolmore Primary in conjunction with Bow Arts. For the year I delivered a series of early years workshops as well as CPD sessions to staff.
I participated in 2017 on a project at MK Gallery that worked with early years and outdoor learning. Here I was mentored by 5x5x5=creativity, an independent arts-based action research organization, who aim to develop innovative and participatory approaches to practice through a Reggio Emilia model. For this project we reproduced a body to the size of a football pitch and spent the day running around inside it.
To accompany my solo exhibition at Space In Between, I organised a community workshop where I invited people to re imagine their local high street by re-locating the feeling and memory of these spaces to specific areas on their body. I was keen to explore how the spaces we live in leave an impression or lasting memory on the bodies we live with.