ASSOCIATE

Key skills

- Audio production and podcasting
- Creative strategy and storytelling
- Writing, composing and broadcasting
- Ideas generation and concept development
- Cultural and heritage project design
- Mentoring and collaboration

Experience

Lo Fi Arts: Founder of a production studio supporting heritage, education and charity organisations with podcast and radio projects.

Low Rumbling: Co-owner of a podcast production and education brand working in heritage and academia.

always possible: Editor of The Possibility Club and Sussex And The City series, producer of investigative series The Brighton Paradox, and collaborator on creative audio projects.

Clients include: Institute for Digital Culture (University of Leicester), Science Museum Group, Brighton & Hove Museums, One Young World Summit 2023, Art Fund, Wired Sussex, The Old Market, The Fusebox, United Us, 1&1 Project, Slack City Radio, Hudson Records and Xtra Mile Recordings.

Creative residencies and projects: Artist-in-Residence at The America Ground, Hastings (A Derelict Chorale), co-creator of StoryHackXR (immersive theatre and storytelling), producer of Voices of the Royal Pavilion & Museums, and presenter of the radio show Folkhampton.

Music career: Over 20 years as a singer-songwriter and recording artist, with 10 solo albums released and more than 2,000 concerts worldwide. Continues to perform, compose, and collaborate as accompanist and producer.

Qualifications

- BA in Popular Music Studies – Leeds University (Bretton Hall College)
- Winner of the School of Music Prize for Written Work

Honours and contributions

Arts Council England DYCP Award (2022)
Speaker at TEDx, SXSW, Brighton Digital Festival and Great Escape Convention
Guest lecturer at Falmouth, Middlesex, Leicester, Leeds Beckett, Strathclyde and the V&A
Published writing in The Quietus, Dark Mountain, New Public Thinkers, BBC Online, NME, Louder Than War, Huffington Post and Brighton Source