Outlets I have contributed writing to include: The Guardian, The Big Issue, New Statesman, The Quietus, FACT magazine, Caught by the River, Journal of Class and Culture, AnOther, Engage Journal, Museum Practice, Corridor8, Social Art Library, Liverpool Biennial, Museums Journal, Liverpool University Press, Arts Professional, University of Manchester, Aesthetica and Mute.

I’ve led arts and heritage projects and programmes for over fifteen years for organisations ranging from FACT, Artlink Hull and The Tetley to National Museums Liverpool, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Metal Culture and the British Library. I am a recipient of the Marsh Award for Excellence in Visual Arts Engagement for my community based work.

I’ve contributed to several books and exhibition catalogues and had short fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry published in various outlets.

I’m a visiting lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. I’ve also delivered lectures, talks and workshops for organisations including the University of Leeds, Engage, the Co-Creating Change Network, the Museums Association, Leeds Arts University and the Arts Council of Wales. I received an Art Fund curatorial grant to research socially-engaged arts practice in Detroit and Chicago. I am an afflialte of the Deindustrialisation and the Politics of Our Time international research project.

In voluntary roles, I’ve been a steering group member of Museum as Muck and Arts Emergency, Vice Chair of Creative Case North and Chair of Cultural Collisions Hull.

I am always interested in new commissions, especially in relation to the subjects mentioned above, and in making contact with people interested in similar fields. You can contact me here.

All views expressed on this site are my own and not those of any of the organisations I work for.