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My work is increasingly focused on cultural practice, conflict politics and their symbols,
meanings and consequences. I see my practice as creating a provocative space in
which the viewer is challenged to respond to the unsettling contemporary dilemmas
derived from our identity as both actors of free will and actors in an historical context.

Broadly speaking my work to date has focused on coexistence and tensions between
past and present, the gallery and ‘non gallery’ space and the activity and interactivity of
the audiences that inhabit these spaces. 

 
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  RESIDENCIES/EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS (A selection)  
     
2008 HOMMAGE TO THE SLIDE PROJECTOR - Haifa University Gallery, Due Feb 08  
2007

HEARA 11- THE LAST COMMENT, Jerusalem, October 2006.

 
 

LOOKING THE OCCUPATION IN THE EYE - Machsom Watch exhibition (curating)
at Cinemateque Tel Aviv

 
 

CONCRETE OCCUPATION, Machsom Watch exhibition (curating) at ‘Tzavta’ Tel Aviv

 
2006-07 DESERT GENERATION - Photography exhibition- Artists protesting against 40 years of occupation, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Amsterdam  
2005-06 GLOBAL FUSION, international exchange and exhibition program, Palais Portia Vienna, Austria.  
2004 RE: THINKING TIME group exhibition of PVA artists at Peterborough Digital Arts  
2003

HOLY LAND – A SKETCH - at FAITH exhibition, Artworks Gallery, Cambridge

 
 

PVA LAB residency in NEWCASTLE. Short video MY HOLY LAND – A SKETCH

 
 

SIC TRANSIT selected postcard for competition by Taxi Gallery, Cambridge

 
 

ART OF CARE – creative documentation for inter-disciplinary Arts project for Alzheiemr sufferer and their carers,Cross Border Arts, Cambridge

 
 

RIDE and TELL, a collaborative installation for Taxi Gallery, Cambridge.( See www.taxigallery.org.uk)

 
2002 LIGHTED ROOMS INSIDE YOUR HEAD- exhibition at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Following a residency at Department of Medicine for the Elderly.
 
  SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES- site specific installation for Leprosy day at Leper Chapel, Cambridge  
  A POEM AT LUNCH TIME- Residency and on-line workshop.  
  HOUSE & HOME – A Research and Development project to establish links between Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum and North Ward in Wisbech (SRB funded)- set up committee and wrote report for large-scale inter- disciplinary project  
  BENEATH THE SURFACE- THE EXHIBITION- exhibition in community sites of archaeological finds and contemporary objects in site-specific context  
     
  PRODUCTIONS/THEATRE BASED WORK (A Selection)  
     
2004-05 ABRAHAM ON TRIAL, Design for electro-acoustic opera for five singers and video screens, World Premier - May 05 at the Junction CDC, Cambridge and due for international tour 2007  
2004 CREATIVE THINKING training for BBC East in collaboration with Menagerie Theatre Co.  
  TIGHTROPE WALKING ON A THURSDAY AFTERNOON a CREATIVE PARNERSHIP Project in collaboration with Menagerie Theatre Co.  
2003 TWO INTO WAR- Menagerie Theatre Co Production for Latchmere Theatre London. National Tour 2005
1992-96 FOE- Complicite Theatre Co for an International tour.
 
  LOVE – West Yorkshire Playhouse.  
  VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER – Nuffield Theatre and Oxford Playhouse and National tour.  
  UGANDA – Royal Court Theatre.  
  YIDISH  
  TROJAN WOMEN- Soho Theatre.  
  THE DANUBE – Shared Experience Theatre and National tour. CHANDRLEKHA – The Sphinx Theatre and National tour. BABIES – National Theatre Studio.  
  A TASTE OF HONEY – English Touring Theatre National tour.  
  INDIA SONG – Theatre Clwyd, Wales.  
  COSI FAN TUTTE – English Touring Opera  
     
  TEACHING/LECTURES (A Selection)  
     
2002-05 THEATRICALITY AND SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION– Homerton College, Cambridge University.  
  WALKING ON THE MOON- MEMORY AND CONTEMPORARY ART INSTALLATION- University College London  
  INSTALLATION AND CONTEMPORARY THEATRE PRACTICE – De Montford University.  
  SHOCK OF THE OLD- ON CONTEMPORARY ART IN HISTORIC SITES - Oxford University.
1992-96
 
  FRAMING AND OTHER ISSUES FOR VISUAL PERFORMANCE - Dartington College of Art,  
  THEATRICALITY OF INSTALLATION - De Montfort University, CONTEMPORARY THEATRE - Wimbledon School of Art  
     
  QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING (A Selection)  
     
1997-98 MA (Distinction) GALLERY STUDIES - Essex University. Dissertation title: THE SHOCK OF THE OLD- ON CONTEMPORARY ART IN HISTORIC SITES  
1990-92 MA in THEATRE DESIGN at Wimbledon School of Art. Dissertation title: THE THEATRICALITY OF INSTALLATION  
1987-89 BA in STAGE DESIGN at the Faculty of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv University, Israel.  
     
   
     
  FOR CAMBRIDGE CURIOSITY AND IMAGINATION  
   
     
  RESIDENCIES/ CREATIVITY PROJECTS (a selection)  
     
2005-06

THREE TIMES THREE- museums, schools and artists across the Eastern Region (UK) working collaboratively with young children and families

 
  TALK ABOUT TOMORROW- Large scale inter-disciplinary project for 7 Creative Partnerships schools in Tendring, Essex, UK  
2005 21st CENTURY SCHOOLS, in collaboration with Shape and Arts Council England East- 12 schools and 24 artists in Thurrock and Essex – Facilitating the exploration of the built environment with school communities  
  PLAYING HANDS- Residency in Histon Early Years Centre, Cambridge  
  PLAY- a series of interventions and occurrences at Creativity conference for Curiosity and Imagination first annual conference.  
2004 THE HUNDRED LANGUAGES OF CHILDREN exhibition - Organising and devising program of events for Cambridge leg of National tour.
 
  I LIGHT YOU AND YOU LIGHT ME - an innovative project for Autistic Spectrum children at the Rees Thomas School, Cambridge  
2003-06 FAMILY CREATIVITY SESSIONS – Running family creativity projects for Kettles Yard to accompany their exhibitions’ program – ongoing  
  EARLY YEARS at Wsying Arts Centre- series of workshops- currently running  
2003-05 WAKING DINOSAURS- A two year residency project at Colleges Nursery School, Cambridge  
2003 MADE IN CAMBOURNE for Cambourne Arts Group and Monkfield Primary School (key stage 2), culminating in Festival day  
  LIGHTS MIRRORS SHADOWS A highly successful pilot project at Colleges Nursery School, Cambridge. (A beacon school serving the Arbury and Kings Hedges area).  
2000-06 OUR PLACE An initiator and active participant in a project for schools in Wisbech, in collaboration with Ocatvia Hill Birthplace Musuem, Fenland Arts Association and Shape Cambridge. Workshops and consultation with children on their playground environment. – ongoing  
     
  TRAINING AND LECTURES DELIVERED AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT(a selection)  
     
2006 CREATIVITY AS PRACTICE Devising of training program for educators by artists focusing on cross curricular creativity, in collaboration with ArtsEdEast, Norfolk LEA and Cambridgeshire Care and Education Partnership.  
2005 INSPIRING CREATIVITY- Making exciting spaces for children's learning and development- Advisory team member for on line resource- For DfES and Sure Start
 
2004 CROSSING BOUNDARIES International conference and study tour at Reggio Emilia, Italy. Funded by Grants for the Arts  
  REGGIO AS CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP HEAVEN- A talk for Creative Practitioners course, Creative Partnership, Norfolk  
2003-04 CURIOSITY AND IMAGINATION – EXPLORING THE CHILDS CREATIVE SELF training sessions for Care and Education partnership for early years providers on children’s creativity and how to work with it  
2003 CREATIVITY AS TRANSFORMATION Lecture for EARS seminar at Homerton College¸ Faculty of Education, Cambridge University  
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founder
CCI - Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination

http://www.cambridgecandi.org.uk/home/
 
curator
MW - Machsom Watch
http://www.machsomwatch.org/en
 
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