A brief overview of work I have done with all ages and abilities from Key stage 2 to new writers, teachers and Special Needs

Much of  the  education work that I do is based around  a combination of synesthesia  (the blending of one or more of the senses) and the development of  linguistic and visual vocabularies. In gaining the 'back door' to our perceptions,  I have  used the same techniques with children as young as seven , new designers, actors and writers to create visual work that does not rely on an indivdual's ability to draw or even write, but to communicate.

        Much of my education work is now based at the Royal Opera House
where I am one of the course leaders for the Write an Opera programme. An inset course which has been running for the last 15 years for teachers, which is designed to de - mystify the fact that opera is a genre accessible to only the very few; out of this project around 2-3000 primary school children write, compose, design and perform their own operas every year. As well as this, I have also worked on the Turtle Opera project for the past three years which creates an opera with 10-14 year olds with Asperger's Syndrome.












Turtle Opera 2003 - 2006









































Images from Key Times - a show made for and by the children of West London..