Workshops can be standalone or integrated with your process. They can explore general themes and ideas, or be designed to address specific narrative, visual or structural interests. With the right preparation, they can be devised for pretty much any number of people, any space and any context.

My workshop style is open, truthful, challenging, generous, brutal and kind. I like to integrate as many elements as possible and often work with sound design, documentation and illustration to build and preserve a rich archive of material from each workshop to feed the process further.

Each workshop is unique to the context. Examples vary from the practical to the fairly esoteric..

Endowing objects with malicious or comforting intent.

Working in the dark.

Making a visual impact outdoors without much stuff.

Owning your visual world.

Cutting down the running time of a show by creating visual shortcuts.

Working with audio loops.

Exploring musicality of performance using seperate sound feeds to performers and audience.

Creating narrative effects using site-specific objects, sound and lighting.

Slow transitions using luminous objects and UV.

Handling props realistically.

Making monsters instantly.

Giving your visual world space to tell its own story.

Creating effects with coloured lighting on coloured costumes and props.

Being aware of the visual possibilities of your surroundings.

Creating distance using transparent things.

Improving object-manipulation skills.

Turning mistakes to your advantage.

Non-figurative puppetry.

Breaking things live.

"Not only a toy to play with as an artist, but also a tool to tell something about this world."

“Making tiny things seem as important as they really are, but in a way you wouldn't normally look at them”

“'YES, AND..' rather than 'NO, BUT..'. That's a terrifically constructive way of working.”

"Everything was alive."

“Small moments, and objects and thoughts, just bringing them forward in a way that I haven't seen done by anyone else. And it's just beautiful..”