I love working with great leaders and organisations who produce high-quality work with integrity and vision, and who understand the value and potential of PR.
Clients
Contact MCR
Press Campaign to announce the new Artistic Director/CEO and more.
Keisha Thompson announced as new AD/CEO:
Manchester Confidentials British Theatre Guide The Stage Theatre Reviews North Theatre Full Stop The Voice online and in print BBC Radio Manchester Manchester Evening News Manchester World Afridiziak Ed Vaizey/Vaizey View Newsletter The Mancunian and many more.
Green Space Dark Skies
Local press campaigns over four sites for this national project from Walk the Plank for the Unboxed Festival 2022.
Devon Live Dartmoor Magazine Reconnect magazine – the green living magazine for South Devon BBC Radio Devon The Moorlander Exmoor Magazine Bedfordshire Live Hiya Bucks BBC Radio Norfolk ITV Anglia and more.
Frozen Light
Campaign for 2065, Frozen Light’s futuristic new show. The specific task is to attain reviews.
Northern Arts Review Beyond the Curtain British Theatre Guide BBC Radio Devon ITV West Country The Birmingham Press The Stage 4* Review Theatre Weekly The Birmingham Press
Flatpack Festival
Strategic and profile raising PR and festival campaign for the 2022 festival. Website
Grapevine Birmingham Birmingham Press What’s On Live Midlands Movies Skwigly
Extraordinary Bodies
PR Retainer. Raising the visibility and profile of the company and artists in line with strategic goals and promoting shows. Extraordinary Bodies Website
The Guardian Visit Dorset Dash Arts Disability Arts Online Creative Tourist Exeunt My Theatre Mates and more.
Malik Nashad Sharpe AKA Marikiscrycrycry
Profile and visibility PR work centred around their show ‘He’s Dead’ at Battersea Arts Centre March 2022.
Broadway World I Am Hip Hop Magazine ToDoList London Dancing Times The British Blacklist
Reviews:
RAMM Contemporary Art
Working with Lara Goodband, Contemporary Art Curator & Programmer. PR Campaign for Joy Gregory’s new work for the museum exhibition In Plain Sight: Transatlantic Slavery and Devon. Opens in January 2022. RAMM website.
Exeter Daily Museums Journal Art Quarterly BBC History Revealed Magazine The Voice
Entelechy Arts
PR Retainer. Raising the profile and brand in line with the strategic goals of the company and PR for projects.
South London Press Lewisham Local BBC Coventry Radio BBC Midlands Today News Coventry Observer BBC London News Arts Professional Maddy Mills Arts Professional Discoveries in Distanced Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance Social Prescribing Network National Academy for Social Prescribing and more.
Oily Cart
Oily Cart reimagines theatre for young audiences to make it more inclusive. I am their PR on Retainer for shows and programmes, as well as supporting them in strategic communications planning, brand and profile raising. OilyCart.org.uk
Love London Love Culture The Young Londoner Robert Elms BBC, London Radio, Songlines Magazine Riverside Radio Family Stage At The Theatre Arts Industry South London News Fantastic For Families A Younger Theatre Arts Professional Bryony Kimmings Arts Professional Sensory and Inclusive theatre report Fantastic For Families Award Winners and more.
Threshold Studios
Strategic and brand development with key messaging, network development and PR support
Artquest
Artquest uses research about visual artists working conditions, career barriers, and motivations to develop the professional information, advice and projects that they need. Strategic PR profile and brand development and Comms support towards their 20th anniversary. Artquest.org.uk
Data as Culture at the Open Data Institute (ODI)
To lead on the arts PR in liaison with curator Hannah Redler Hawes. Dataasculture.com
Verdict FAD Art The Science TECHnique Podcast episodes 47/48
The Poetry Archive & Obsidian Foundation
Obsidian Foundation at The Poetry Archive launches a new curated series capturing the voices and writing of seventeen exceptional Black British poets.
The Bookseller Ambit Cardiff Review Alt_Africa Nine Arches Press Sideways Poetry Haste Magazine The Voice Sideways Poetry Review The Honest Ulsterman BBC Jumoke Fashola Show Granta National Poetry Library and more.
tiata fahodzi
PR Retainer. Raising the profile and brand and publicising shows for the company.
Theatre Fullstop The Voice Theatre Full Stop Interview Arts Professional Trustee announcement Black Love Guardian Review Watford.Gov My News Mag BBC Three Counties Radio Ed Adoo Show Watford BID
Drake Music
Planted Symphony outdoor event PR. In honour of Disabled composer Lucy Hale who died in 2021, Planted Symphony, a new piece she was working on, has been reimagined as an audio trail.
Disability Arts Online Classical Music Slipped Disk BBC London Carrie and David Grant show, Conscious Being Magazine and many more.
Music Theatre Wales
PR for New Directions, brand new opera from artists Tumi Williams and Sita Thomas, Renell Shaw and Rachael Young, Krystal S. Lowe and Jasmin Kent Rodgman. LINK
ITV Wales OperaWire BBC Introducing with Adam Walton and many more.
Interbeing
An international project from Kay Aplin (the Ceramic House) and Joseph Young (Art of Noises). Ceramics and Sound art collaborations between China and UK institutions in 2021. Interbeing
Press in print: Ceramic Review, New Ceramics, Crafts, World of Interiors, Press online: Info Ceramica, Ceramics Monthly, Brighton Magazine, Crafts Council, INNER and many more.
Bedford Creative Arts (BCA)
Annie Bacon at Bedford Creative Arts (BCA) and I made some magic happen with a consistent and thoughtful collaboration for PR over one year.
Al Jazeera The New York Times The Big Issue and many more.
INTER/her
VR exhibition for artist Camille Baker PR campaign. CamilleBaker.me
Huffpost Art the Science BBC Radio Sheffield, Now Then Magazine and Gallery Gals Instagram. An exciting outcome of this campaign is that the artist was approached to work with a high profile university on a collaborative project after they had read the HuffPost article.
Camden Alive
Working on behalf of the Mayor of London with London Borough of Camden’s Arts Development Officer Suzie Plumb on the Camden Alive arts programme press campaign. Artists include Larry Achiampong with David Blandy and Peter Adjaye. Camden Alive
Tanika Gupta
Playwright. Profile raising PR campaign.
Arts Industry profile The Arts Desk and a full feature in the Financial Times by Sarah Hemming and more.
Bedford Creative Arts
Press strategy and campaign for Escaping Gravity: Airship Dreams with artist Mike Stubbs. Exhibiting at the Higgins Bedford in July 2021. BCA.org.uk
Bedford Today Broadway World BBC News East Makery, Media for Labs and more.
Fish Guidance Systems Limited
Strategy, planning and delivery of an environmental PR campaign to pressure EDF to install an Acoustic Fish Deterrent at Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C power stations to protect the deaths of millions of fish from the cooling tunnels as well as raise the brand and profile of the company.
Forbes Magazine The Telegraph Global Innovation Power Technology The Independent The Ends Report and more.
Unlimited
Announcement of the new commissions 2021 and making their new home in Wakefield. Weareunlimited.org.uk.
Awards campaign: The Stage Arts Professional Theatre Weekly Ed Vaizey arts Newsletter Arts Professional a-n Moving to Wakefield campaign: Asian Express Arts Professional 2 On Magazine Yorkshire Yorkshire Post Topic UK The Yorkshire Post and more.
Shape Arts
PR Strategy and delivery for ARA Augmented Reality show. An artist’s exhibition in a phone app. Shapearts.org.uk.
HOTLINE
PR for a new play by telephone launching 26 Feb-6 Mar 2021. Commissioned by Tron Theatre in Glasgow with Produced Moon who make interactive and digital theatre. Show Link.
Feature in Glasgow’s The Skinny. Also achieved: BBC Scotland radio packaged piece by Pauline McLean and a feature on phone plays in The Stage. The Metro Weekend What’s On page. Reviews: The Stage, The National, Lyn Gardner/Stage Door App, LouReviews, Disability Arts Online, A Younger Theatre and many more.
Substrakt
PR to promote their website applications for organisations in the arts, cultural, heritage and creative sectors in Europe and North America. substrakt.com
A piece by Managing Director Ash Mann in Arts Professional. Arts Professional article
Data as Culture at the Open Data Institute (ODI)
To lead on the arts PR in liaison with curator Hannah Redler Hawes, Allegory Communications and the arts curatorial team for the 2019 – 2020 Data as Culture research and partnership theme Copy That? and PR Campaign for Summit 2020 co-curated with Guest Curator Antonio Roberts. www.theodi.org
Verdict and FAD plus numerous writers and influencers attending the Summit.
Mansions of the Future
PR on individual projects and overall to support the planned closure of the building cumulating in a conference. Mansionsofthefuture.org.
BBC Front Row BBC Lincolnshire radio.
Entelechy Arts
Development of a full marketing and communications strategy, project management and delivery of their new website and social media campaigns like #BedTouring. I create newsletters, manage the website and social media accounts working closely with the team and partner organisations to make visible the incredible work they do. Entelechy Arts.
Sonia Boue
Sonia is an artist I am working with in communications development capacity to support her practice. SoniaBoue.co.uk
Penelope Roskell, Pianist
Supporting Penelope Roskell with a full communications revamp and strategy to launch her new book The Complete Pianist. peneloperoskell.co.uk
Polka Theatre
I supported Polka theatre with press work for their shows and to sustain visibility during their building redevelopment. I worked closely with the executive director on strategy and also support business development and fundraising through PR. I researched and nurtured press, influencer and media contacts to build audiences, support the fundraising campaign and maintain Polka’s visibility during its closure. I managed PR stunts for Polka Patrons Amanda Holden and also Omid Djalili and I was able to place storyteller Jan Blake on BBC Saturday Live and The Wind in the Willows on BBC Open Book. Polka Theatre.
Rooted Everyday
Working with Wordsby Ltd to deliver a full Marketing and Communications strategy and International PR campaign. We have delivered a full branding strategy, website and social media campaign for a new consortium of partners in the Mediterranean Basin (WWF Spain, GDF, MedINA, DiversEarth, SNPL) to promote sustainability, biodiversity and cultural heritage. Rooted Everyday.
Other past projects
I have worked with Wandsworth Enterprise Month, New English Ballet Theatre, Bedford Creative Arts, Bloomsbury Festival, Enable Leisure and Culture, Yellow Earth Theatre, Kali Theatre, a-n The Artists Information Company and the ‘Off Your Map‘ Wetlands Campaign.
Oily Cart
Oily Cart reimagines theatre for young audiences to make it more inclusive. I am their PR on Retainer for shows and programmes, as well as supporting them in strategic communications planning, brand and profile raising. OilyCart.org.uk
Love London Love Culture The Young Londoner Robert Elms BBC, London Radio, Songlines Magazine Riverside Radio Family Stage At The Theatre Arts Industry South London News Fantastic For Families A Younger Theatre Arts Professional Bryony Kimmings Arts Professional Sensory and Inclusive theatre report Fantastic For Families Award Winners and more.
Interbeing
An international project from Kay Aplin (the Ceramic House) and Joseph Young (Art of Noises). Ceramics and Sound art collaborations between China and UK institutions in 2021. Interbeing
Press in print: Ceramic Review, New Ceramics, Crafts, World of Interiors, Press online: Info Ceramica, Ceramics Monthly, Brighton Magazine, Crafts Council, INNER and many more.
Bedford Creative Arts (BCA)
Annie Bacon at Bedford Creative Arts (BCA) and I made some magic happen with a consistent and thoughtful collaboration for PR over one year.
Al Jazeera The New York Times The Big Issue and many more.