Projects 2025
The Art Cart
I collaborated with Breathe Creative and Velindre Cancer Centre to create a film exploring people’s lived experiences of cancer. The script was shaped directly from the voices of those living with cancer, and the artwork was made by patients and healthcare professionals, then brought to life through animation. The film encourages open conversations about cancer and highlights how creativity can help people express and navigate their feelings throughout their cancer journey. Film coming soon!
Two animations about mental health and lockdown
Over Lockdown I made two films with the fabulously creative teams from arts for wellbeing organisation, Breathe Creative
https://www.breathecreative.co.uk. In 2020 I worked with a users of the Ty Canna Mental Health outreach services to make Diamond, a short animation about mental health in lockdown. This was a new way of working for me, as it was done over zoom,
and I adapted my working methods using poetry and artwork from the participants to make the film.
In 2021 I produced another short animation with participants from Ogmore Vale, called Future Dreaming. This animation film was created during the pandemic .This project celebrated the creativity of women living in the Bridgend Borough and explored issues around isolation, connection, life, relationships, good times and hard times, and the things that were important to the women involved. There is specially composed music by group member Andrea Rees. The project was funded by the Mental Health Covid Response Fund.
Animation in Schools
I've been lucky enough to be both a Creative Agent and Creative Practitoner for the Arts Council of Wales and the Welsh Government's Lead Creative Schools Scheme. I have worked in 14 schools in Wales since 2015 to help put creativity at the centre of the curriculum. 'Butetown's Colourful Journey' is a film made as part of the Lead Creative Schools Scheme in Wales. Pupils worked with me to make their own film about their lives and why they love Butetown in Cardiff.
