CREATIVE CONSULTANCY

Credible, comprehensive creative consultancy, strategy, planning & criticism.

Keeping your eyes on the horizon can be tricky when capacity is tight and delivery times are short. With practical wisdom and insights, a strong network and 20 years hard won experience of providing creative consultancy, strategy and leadership across the creative, cultural and arts sectors, I’ll help you design a strategy, single out opportunities, seek out and secure partnerships, write bids and plan for up-scaling. Whatever you want to make happen, you can rely on me for credible, comprehensive, strategic support as a consultant, advocate, or critical friend.

CREATIVE DIRECTION

Visionary & intentional creative direction & thinking for arts, cultural & creative commissioners.

I believe in the power of art and creative thinking: how it can impact the trajectory of people, places, programmes, processes and products, change hearts and minds, alter policy and influence behaviour.

To take an idea from concept to reality requires a strong creative vision, an authentic tone and aesthetic, focused messaging and a true understanding of audience, programming and delivery channels.

As a seasoned Creative Director, taking informed and intentional calculated risks to develop unique intellectual property for projects, programmes and products is part of my DNA, so you can be assured of viability and impact before you press the button to launch.

CREATIVE PRODUCTION

Pragmatic & Collaborative Creative Production For Complex, Cross Platform/Sector Projects.

Whether you’re looking for someone to run a one-off photoshoot, or someone who can help you turn a complex, multi-strand, multi-discipline, cross platform endeavour into a successful project, with a great creative outcome that everyone has enjoyed working on, you’re in the right place.

I’m not one of those corporate account manager types. I’m a creative producer, who is very much a ‘people person’ and who is also a practicing creative.

I help make things and make things happen.

I know what it takes to ensure projects run on time and to budget, but my skills as a producer go much further than that and cut across a range of art forms for contemporary art, public realm, arts and heritage, arts and health, outdoor arts, theatre, digital, community, creative learning and publishing projects.

In addition to extensive experience of creative co-production involving freelance contractors, artists, creatives and production specialists of all disciplines, I’m also well versed in taking an asset-based approach to developing and delivering creative and cultural activities.

If you want to create new work, develop existing work, attract new audiences, develop more meaningful relationships with your existing audiences, or engage communities in activating and redeveloping spaces, I’ll take a practical, empowering, pragmatic and collaborative approach to help make it happen.

CREATIVE WRITING

Powerful & Persuasive Creative Writing & Narrative Concepts For Live, Print & Digital Platforms.

Creative and persuasive writing is key to transforming vision and ideas into powerful and compelling words that make people listen, reflect and act. Beautiful, meaningful words encourage, transport, inspire and sell. On their strength, communities can pull together, history can be brought back to life, memories rewritten, stories believed, campaigns won, customers influenced and audiences enthralled.

As a published poet and copywriter, writing and editing authentic, credible and creative content and narratives is the bastion of my day to day. From scripts and soundscapes, to poems and press releases, punchy advertising copy and carefully crafted features, corporate reports and complex funding bids. I always welcome the opportunity to respond to a new creative cue.