My Work

Projects that I’ve designed and delivered over the last 10 years

  • Sarah in a panel of 4 alongside Suzanne Bull on a podium at GE17 conference. There is a ppt behind Sarah which reads No Climate Justice without Us. Disabled Leadership & Climate Posted in: Facilitation & Leadership - In 2024 I was commissioned to work with Attitude is Everything alongside Suzanne Bull, the organisation’s founder and the team,  facilitating roundtable discussions with 20 emerging and established disabled music creatives to explore their ideas, thinking and potential leadership in the climate sustainability space. In February 2025, we published climate sustainability resources I’d designed to […]
  • A beautiful graphic in dusky rose pin and green showing design elements of eyes, time, workign together and hands holding this and the words, Transforming Leadership Transforming Leadership Posted in: Coaching and Supervision, Leadership - Transforming Leadership was a coaching and leadership programme that I helped shape alongside the brillliant team at Access All Areas. When I joined the organisation as chair I knew that I didn’t want to do this on my own but alongside one of the artist associates. How lucky was I to work and still work alongside my co-chair, Charlene Salter.
  • A picture sowing Sync Shorts from teh website syncing space, with Sync Shorts participants in view on a Sync Shorts course, artist Thompson Hall infront of his canvas and a group shot of Nakseni Studio participants in KL, smiling at the camera. Syncing Space Posted in: Facilitation & Leadership, Leadership - On the back of some research into Sync and the take up for our programmes of work, i wanted to see if leadership learning for learning disabled/autistic visual artists might be best delivered through an accessible Sync Shorts online arts residency. In January 2025, we built a new web platform Syncing Space to share the leadership thinking and showcase the resulting artwork from our 4 brilliant artists.
  • 6 Deaf Sync artist/leaders in a Sync Zoom call, smiling contemplating & waving. Sync Leadership Posted in: Coaching and Supervision, Leadership - Sync Leadership is the only disabled-led global facing leadership and coaching programme for Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent leaders working in arts, culture, heritage and media. Sync has worked with over 300 leaders since its inception and creates access where there hasn't been to coaching practices and leadership learning, changing lives irrevocably.
  • 2 people viewed from behind, looking at a screen sat slightly apart in an enclosed exhibition space Relaxed @Wellcome Posted in: Consultancy & Training - In 2023, I was commissioned by the Wellcome Collection to explore the impact of their Relaxed Event programme.Working alongside a group of Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent consultants, we experienced the offer over a number of months and made suggestions of what might work more effectively in future iterations and exhibitions.
  • a picture of leaders on our Inclusive Cultures programme a snapshot taken from the website. Inclusive Cultures Posted in: Coaching and Supervision, Leadership - As a Diversity Associate for Clore Leadership, I have been designing and helming Inclusive Cultures since its inception in 2020 working with 35 leaders annually, provoking new ways of working for cultural leaders who want to think outside the box of their current understanding of what inclusive cultures might infer.
  • photographs of 11 selected Amplify recruits facing the camera smiling and the logo Amplify in organge blue, bright green and pink Amplify ITV Posted in: Facilitation & Leadership - Initiated by ITV Creative Diversity Partners, Nahrein Kemp and Sam Tatlow MBE in 2023 for Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse leaders, Amplify ran for 10 months with design and facilitation by myself as coach and leadership specialist.
  • A group of Outside In artist advisors and ambassadors sitting aroudn a talbe with pens and flipchart discussing Outside In Posted in: Consultancy & Training - Developing the artist user voice for Outside In through training artists and ambassadors to enrich organisational values and advocate for the organisation.I've been working with Outside In in different ways since its inception, training the board of trustees, supporting staff members through coaching and consultancy. However the most resonant work has been shaping the Artist Advisory Group to influence and shape of the organisation and designing the training for organisational Ambassadors.
  • A group of women some in wheelchairs, some standing. Some wearing hijab, others not. The final day of Sync Arabi Sync Arabi Posted in: Facilitation & Leadership - An intensive leadership and coaching programme, Sync Arabi was designed for aspiring Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse leaders in the Arabi region and delivered face to face in Jordan in English and Arabic in Spring 2023
  • All four artists’ work, beginning bottom right clockwise: Nadine Mckenzie, A Will, My Wheels and a Way, 2021; …kruse, Directionsgreat to Storyplace, 2021; Siphenathi Mayekiso, Echoes of Identity, 2021; artwork still, Ecologies of Belonging (a Meditation in Progress) by Rebekah Ubuntu, courtesy of the Artist. Find Rebekah online @rebekahubuntu. Vital Capacities Posted in: Digital Inclusivity - An accessible, purpose-built digital residency space that supports artists’ practice while engaging a diversity of audiences with their work.As digital inclusion specialist for the project, I support artists induction and the development of the inclusive culture feel of the residencies as well as supporting the development of the access streams for the artists. This involves my own audio description but also commissioning some of the best artists working in the field to support the accessibility of the artist’s r&d and final exhibited pieces.
  • a montage of different images From Sprung Digi website, showing different aspects of hte project including Digi Buddies, SprungDigi Dares U. There is a picture of a Chinese man with a moustache and glasses, Andy Kee part of steering committee in a bright orange tshirt in a still from teh film. Sprung Digi Posted in: Digital Inclusivity - Sprung Digi was a user led and inspired community project led by a committee of learning disabled creatives that put their communities in touch with digital technology like never before. Sprung Digi developed access, understanding and engagement for people most readily denied access to quality digital experiences in a way that had not been achieved before. The project, which ran from 2012-2016 showcased startling beautiful digital creativity in simple vibrant ways working with over 200 people across West Sussex.
  • Chisato in an illuminated blue dress with a projection of green hands across her performance shows the explosion of the A-Bomb in Hiroshima from a Deaf perspective. Scored in Silence, Edinburgh, 2019 Chisato Minamimura Posted in: Digital Inclusivity - Minamimura's s work explores the Deaf perspective through the employment of radical progressive digital artistry working in sound and light and the latest vibration technologies. Between 2014-2019, I worked alongside vibrafusionlab.com, Canada and Hologauze®, Bristol, UK and digital artists Jon Armstrong, Danny Bright, Harvey Cash and Dave Packer to develop the personal stories of Deaf Hibakusha; surviviors of the 1945 A-Bomb in her unforgettable solo performance, Scored in Silence.  The work has since toured live and digitally in Canada, Tunisia, China, Chile and Australia and more.
  • A picture showing Deaf and disabled artists working in digital with projection, website, an audience applauding Short Circuit Posted in: Digital Inclusivity - An action research ACE funded digital inclusion project exploring the interface between digital and disability, designed and delivered by myself alongside Jo Verrent where 15 Deaf and disabled artists interested or working in digital, explored themes of Sound, Movement & Storytelling alongside digital artists and producers. Based at Lighthouse in Brighton with funding from Mozilla. Deaf and disabled artists included: Chisato Minamimura, Caroline Ward, Jon Adams, Melissa Mostyn, Damian Toal, Dolly Sen, Julie McNamara, David Bower Anya Ustaszewski