Creative environments where different ways of sensing, communicating, moving and making are treated as artistic possibilities rather than deficits.
I have worked extensively in SEND schools and colleges, including PMLD, SLD, autism and neurodivergent settings. My practice uses bassoon, voice, electronics, movement, objects, materials and environmental sound to create responsive spaces with multiple entry points.
Looking for a one-day school workshop?
Explore bookable creative SEND workshop themes, possible curriculum connections and a clear one-day format: one chosen theme and up to four responsive 45–60 minute sessions. Fees are discussed directly with the school’s commissioning lead.
What this can look like
- Long-term creative programmes and residencies
- Sensory soundscape stories and immersive environments
- Cross-arts projects with visual artists, museums and galleries
- Creative work shaped around individual interests and communication
- Staff development through participation and reflection
- Research and development around anti-ableist pedagogy
How I work
The structure is prepared carefully, but participation is not forced into one route. People can enter, leave, watch, return, make, sound, move, repeat or simply inhabit the atmosphere. I pay attention to regulation, processing time, repetition, familiarity, transitions and the less visible forms of participation that conventional measures can miss.
“You are letting the students take the lead and going with them. Encouraging the children but not pushing them. Everyone was able to join in their own way and on their own level.”
Teacher feedback, Riverside Special School
Flagship work
Towards an Anti-Ableist Creative Pedagogy
A long-term collaborative enquiry with Marc Woodhead and Paul Morrow into co-constructed creative learning, multiple entry points, material enquiry, invisible learning processes and qualitative assessment.
Odyssey — Riverside SEND Project
A sensory drama and soundscape project exploring open and focused space, agency, processing time, repetition, atmosphere and the idea that participants can be both makers of the story and people within it.
The project generated substantial reflection on the importance of allowing people to move in and out of the activity, creating familiar landmarks through repeated sound and language, and holding a thread of atmosphere without over-directing the room.
Museum of London & Riverside Special School
A five-week project using music inspired by Victorian pleasure gardens, live bassoon, voice, sensory materials and flexible musical layers that could be simplified or expanded according to the needs of the group.
Live bassoon was used to mirror body movement, intensify playful interactions, respond to tactile materials and help create shared moments without demanding a single form of participation.
Commissioning
I can develop work with a school, college, arts organisation or cultural venue from a single workshop through to a long-term programme, research collaboration or staff-development strand.