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Participatory Arts

I have developed participatory arts experience across teaching, publishing, and printmaking in commercial and community settings. Through workshops with Roots Riso, Merseyway Workshop, and Yes Lah, I have delivered sessions that centre accessibility, experimentation, and collective making, often using print as a way to share narratives and build confidence in creative practice.

I have worked within justice contexts through TIPP and Back on Track. This work focuses on creative engagement as a tool for reflection and communication, supporting individuals who have been incarcerated to explore recovery and rehabilitation through visual processes within structured environments.
My approach is grounded in trauma-informed practice, shaped by both lived experience and research. I work with people who are often emotionally vulnerable or have been excluded from accessing the arts, so empathy and trust are central. I focus on creating spaces that feel safe, low-pressure, and open, where people can engage on their own terms. This also feeds back into my visual work, which often explores protection, control, and the need to construct spaces where difficult experiences can be held without being simplified. 

Workshop Collaborators / Clients


Underbank Studios (Roots Riso)
MadLab 
Mossroom Bookshop
Yes Lah / Mama Z’s Filipino Kitchen
Peshkar
SICK! Festival
The King’s Trust X HOME Arches (Assistant facilitator to George Gibson)
Merseyway Workshop
Ubiskes3
Back on Track Manchester
TiPP
Sketch and Cafe (as Caterpillar Press)
Strangebrew Chorlton (as Caterpillar Press)
GRIT (as Caterpillar Press)


Work with TiPP and Back on Track has been ommitted due to participant privacy. 
Please contact me for details of my justice system work. 


Merseyway Workshop
Image: Arvinda Grey
Merseyway Workshop
Image: Arvinda Grey
Merseyway Workshop
Image: Arvinda Grey
Merseyway Workshop
Image: Carolina Sepulveda
Yes Lah / Mama Z’s Filipino Kitchen (Collaborative Workshop/Supper Club)
Image: Pippa Wilson
Yes Lah / Mama Z’s Filipino Kitchen (Collaborative Workshop/Supper Club)
Image: Pippa Wilson
Yes Lah / Mama Z’s Filipino Kitchen (Collaborative Workshop/Supper Club)
Image: Pippa Wilson
Yes Lah / Mama Z’s Filipino Kitchen (Collaborative Workshop/Supper Club)
Image: Pippa Wilson
Merseyway Workshop
Image: Carolina Sepulveda