While this does form a smaller part of my practice I do enjoy finding ways of engaging people in my practice and why I make my work. I center a lot of this work around access and drawing from my lived experience of being Disabled / Trans / Queer and Neurodiverse. Hopefully leaving the participants with a new perspective or approach to how they connect with art and each other. Empowering them to be more themselves.

Image by Kate Hollingsworth

List of current workshops –

Hack around and find out – thinking about the technology we already have access to and how to use it in ways it’s not intended for to make art simply and easily. Aimed very much at people with limited knowledge / access to tech this tends to utilize the functions built into phones and social media apps mixing them together with IRL materials to get them to work in unexpected ways.

Cut it up and begin again – Costume making for camera. This is a fun throwaway workshop that teaches people just how much they can get away with on camera. Making costumes that will last the vital few minuets to be on film but not much longer. Ideal for people wanting to try things out but feeling costume making is a big scary thing you need to get right. Thinking about what it is you need to use the costume for and how to do it on the fly. – Materials required.

Where our limbs end and the earth begins – Basic live art mapping workshop teaching how we connect bodies to the landscape. Based in ideas of Permaculture / the spirt of place and othered identities. We’ll use tools like sound bathing and tactile responses to reconnect to the environment.

Access and inclusion training – born out of necessity and lived experience this is a personal workshop built to give a taster into how to begin incorporating ideas of access and inclusion – including access doc writing / thinking beyond the stairs.