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Do you see it ? Hiding in plain view.

A slow, lyrical audio meditation that follows a magpie as it gathers small glints of light and leads the listener through vivid sensory images. The episode uses rich, intimate details—the taste of petrol-light, the sound of water in a well, the weight of a hidden coin—to guide you into a brief, grounding moment of stillness and reflection. It ends by inviting you to hold the feeling for a second longer and then open your eyes, returning from the quiet web of imagination.

A still morning: a bird walks across a roof, pecking and testing the world step by step among barbecue scraps and scattered leaves. Nearby, other birds move on or stay, each tending small adjustments—worms pulled from damp soil, twigs rearranged, gulls arguing with the wind—while the day slowly begins. Simple moments add up to a quiet invitation: leave a window open for a while and listen to what has already begun without you.

Can you be more, than the colour of stone on everyday objects, wherever you are? Begin there. This episode is a quiet, observant meditation that uses pavements, walls and weathered stone as a lens to explore how small marks, movements and memories reveal the fuller stories of people's lives. Through everyday scenes—a bus stop, a cafe, a street—the narrator notices how the ground gathers weather, footsteps and traces of living, and asks whether a single wound or moment can ever define a person. Gentle and reflective, the piece invites listeners to look down and around: to see how surfaces hold multiple colours, seasons and histories, and how we too might contain more than the marks we show.

Resources for Carers and thoughts on Art as Care Outlining The Shape of Things Undone at Brighton Fringe and more

Jump into an exploration of some digital work that can give you some ideas and bring you closer to materials

Shows to celebrate and witness in Edinburgh and Brighton this year

A short, gentle guided moment. No pressure, just a space to pause.

The listener is centred. the listener is not told what to feel. The listener is allowed to find themselves inside this five minute piece. Lyrical, but spare - directed, but not commanding - layered but clear.

A short pocket performance for you, it asks you to sit with one object one sound, and notice what changes when you pay attention

Drawing on recent exhibitions, this podcast explores how contemporary artists approach personhood not as a fixed identity, but it’s something relational experimental and lived.

New Show Celebrating Neurodivergent Creativity

At the Threshold is a short arts–health monologue that explores Alzheimer’s through time, pause, and listening. Drawing on lived observation, personhood thinking, and the experience of apraxia, the piece focuses not on loss of memory, but on moments where action, recognition, and agreement arrive out of sequence — and sometimes return. Structured around the sound of wind moving through a room, the monologue invites the listener to stand in the space before decisions are made: where consent is not refusal, stillness is not absence, and waiting becomes a form of care. This work sits between theatre, medical humanities, and sound piece. It is an invitation to imagine the other — not as someone disappearing, but as someone navigating changing thresholds of access, timing, and recognition. Listeners are invited, at the end, to close the door if they wish.

In this episode I explore the idea of occupational personhood are people with dementia often sustain identity through former work roles. The episode also looks ahead to her recognising compressed forms of identity might inform future approaches to documentation, digital health and language based support tools. The role of creativity in this situation is explored.