news and reflections from workshops, collaborations and commissions

• Meet Me on the Move: Africa Fashion at the V&A, 22nd September 2022 Meet Me members bring their own expertise and stories to the V&A's Africa Fashion exhibition 23 September 2022
• Remembering who we are and why we are here years of ambient jam in a south east London care home, and what it changes 2 May 2019
• I found some words found words in paint, on vans and walls: some resonate, some repel 30 August 2017
• Sharing The V&A's Gilbert Collection with people with dementia snuffboxes and playing cards in a Hammersmith care home, finding a way in for someone hesitant 16 May 2017
• workpatch I brought mismatched fabric hexagons to the session, and V decided to fix my mistake 30 August 2016
• Wood Element a multi-sensory session on wood in Eastbourne: cinnamon bark, wooden heirlooms and quite a lot of tea 2 March 2016
• A Woolly Jumper an umbilical cord snood, a roof garden at Canary Wharf, and plenty of human wildlife 18 February 2016
• Meet My Style a new blog about the stories and style of older people I meet through my work 12 January 2015
• rule and divide autumn as a fresh start: many new hands, and the unexpected pleasure of ruling lines 14 October 2014
• soul trader sketching barefoot in the sand, a borrowed dog at sunset, and back to work tomorrow 28 September 2014
• beautiful dressing well every day after illness, for the theatre that is your life 13 August 2014
• showing off nursing home residents host a private view of their own art, and stand taller for it 31 July 2014
• summer songs moving among Charmouth's surfaces with Helen Poynor: not responding or interpreting, just becoming part of the landscape 16 June 2014
• A collaboration instinct talking art and collaboration at Fermynwoods, and why starting afresh every time keeps me interested and focused 17 May 2014
• The Nana Nest piles of textiles and sticks transformed into surreal handmade objects by families of children with complex disabilities 25 April 2014
• a vertical approach holding the sketchpad vertical so Lady Q could paint from her wheelchair: part conversation, part Libertango 5 March 2014
• freshers' week try to learn something new every day, even at 99: his body still remembers the double bass 1 March 2014
• energy in a stroke ageing and illness don't have to signal inactivity: shimmering vitality in one man's use of line and colour 13 February 2014
• so many hands where does creativity begin? perhaps in the chance meeting of so many hands 7 January 2014
• zealous x an unexpected juxtaposition: a public conversation with Anne Morrison about women in the creative industries 7 December 2013
• sensory still life vanilla essence, olive oil, black pepper and a cabbage, ready to be touched, smelled and torn apart 20 November 2013
• outside inside broken rosemary, fallen leaves: when you can no longer go outside, these still smell of the earth 10 October 2013
• totally Frank at the 21st Century Tea Dance with Frank, who taught us all what being a true professional means 13 September 2013
• Catford saboteur go, little plant, go 5 August 2013
• we sing because... locking eyes and voices with sixty older singers in the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer 5 July 2013
• my beautiful tree we filled the room with flowers and plants, and she began to sketch the tree outside her window 15 May 2013
• Squaring the circle or circling the square collecting bottle tops for tap dancing fingers, until a fifteen-year-old visitor saw them quite differently 13 May 2013
• critical ornithology encouraging festival-goers at Supernormal to notice birds, then make human birdsong for a Gertrude and Friends set 5 October 2012