My role at In-Situ focuses on internal development, which includes governance, policy, funding and coordinating team working and care. I also work on reflective practice, creating spaces for us to self -reflect around the work. I sit on the Board too, as a member of the team. 

I am interested in questions of form and fluidity, the individual and the collective, intuition and art as a way of being. My lens as an artist shapes what I bring to In-Situ (and vice versa). You can find out more about my practice here. 

I joined In-Situ in 2018 when it became an NPO and was moving into being an organisation with employees rather than a group of artists and practitioners working in place. My role has grown over time, with the invitation / permission to respond to the challenge of reflecting and reflecting on In-Situ’s way of working in its continually evolving state. 

I have established Thinking Out Loud to collectively explore and shape our ways of working through reflective processes (events, writing, films and conversations) that enable us to ask questions of our work, wider systems and structures and the role of art in our everyday lives.

As part of this I have been facilitating and documenting the co-development / collective instituting / constituting of the fluid organisational structure at In-Situ, creating feedback loops into policy and sharing our work in progress with peers. I have produced a series of films called Fluid Structures that surfaces the possibility, joys and challenges of this way of working and the complexities surrounding equitability and inclusivity within a diverse organisation.  

I also co-lead the development of Climate Lab Pendle; an exploratory and educational climate engagement programme underpinned by climate psychology and active hope. This work centres diversity of leadership to explore barriers to individual climate action and to systems change, connecting it to broader themes of inequality and mis and dis-information. The programme is supported by a Leadership Collective who are shaping the thinking and development of the programme through a reflective programme of co-learning. 

As an artist, I work mainly through writing and performance as process-led, embodied research. My practice is self-taught and initially developed out of motherhood as a creative context. My work is anchored by autistic experience and working through religious trauma, navigated through the post-industrial landscapes of the east coast where I grew up and the steep-sided valley where I currently live.