COMMUNITY

Working with community and collaborating with other artists in mutually agreeable and meaningful ways.

My Bhᾶti Part 2
2024

What is the purpose of a wake?
In this second part of My Bhati, using food as a means of gathering people together, participants were invited to actively engage with one another by following prompts for reflection and thoughtful acts of service.  

Can we rest?
2021

An artists to walk and talk on the possibility of rest/

For Jo Fong’s series ‘Come Rain or Shine’,

What concerns you on a daily basis
2015

An 1800hrs collaboration with artist Verena Vanderberg 

The local community anonymously shared their daily concerns culminating in an evening of dress up, a photo shoot and tea ritual acknowledging our common concerns wearing a hand-stitched paper waistcoat. 

For Made in Roath Arts Festival

Some Concerns

  • How to remain hopeful

  • Make sure to tell my friends and family I love them, in which ever form love can be shared

  • Am I a good person? Can I change? Will this last?

  • We still are not learning enough on the effect we are having on this planet.

  • Not being alone

  • Where the next pay check is coming

  • What shall I eat today. Should I get out of bed. What shall I do.

  • Will world war 3 begin today

  • Where are the rules and who makes them???

  • I work in property so I compare my capitalist professional views with my genuinely socialist ones

  • Breaking a 'rule' and it comes back and bites me on the arse!

  • Is Mum gonna be ok?

  • Collectively changing profit driven and consumption hungry capitalism

  • How can I contribute something better to the world?

  • Financial security and recently, my health - mental and physical

  • Ethically- if I buy this, who is it harming along the way?

  • Should I do this/ say that/ is what I am doing right? What difference am I making socially?

  • To do something that makes me happy and sad with nostalgia

  • Am I ok?

  • How did I go from 3 proper meals a day to 'oh dear, should get something to eat but what?'

  • The future The past I must remember to be more present

  • Masturbation Sex Food Music

  • Using too much shampoo in the shower

  • Miss my cats

  • It hit me I really want to have kids. But is this ever gonna happen?

  • What am I doing with my life?

  • Have I done everything I should? Oh god I don't have much time

  • Be nothing Be everything

  • Find a way to carry on with my art

  • Why does this mental health care company care more about the money than the actual PEOPLE?

  • What is a sleeping pattern again?

  • Doing things I don't want to do and gearing my life towards what I believe in

  • Why are the poor getting poorer while the rich are getting richer?

  • Seeing my brother becoming a clone of my father, having children and mistreating them

  • Not being able to escape from my family curse, not being able to break the pattern

  • It concerns me that the word soul is missing from discourses about employability

  • Lose the control of my clear mind

Stories Next Door
2017

In collaboration with artist Esyllt George

Sharing local stories and community collage making celebrating everyday happenings and community connections with the traditional British ritual of tea and cake.

For Made in Roath Arts Festival

Take A Step
2015

Walking together along a local high street, putting one step before another, bringing mindful disruption to frenetic unconscious living.

For Made in Roath Arts Festival

Take A Moment
2015

Offering moments of stillness and silence across city parks and urban spaces to just ‘be’.

For Made in Roath Arts Festival

Workshops

Aurora Trinity Collective Residency
2019

Hosted by Arcade Camfa 

A series of workshops exploring tie dye, printing, felt making, stitching and pottery.

Indigo Dye Workshop
2017

In collaboration with Camilla Lovelace 

An introduction to indigo dying techniques and its origins. 

For Made in Roath Arts Festival. 

Work with Farah

I will work with you designing and delivering audience and community focused projects, workshops and collaborative residencies whatever your idea.

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