National Trust
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National Trust 〰️
cultural programming
London, UK
Public Heritage Institution
At the National Trust, I led the design and delivery of cultural programming across historic sites in London, working at the intersection of heritage interpretation, public engagement, and institutional change.
My work focused on developing programme frameworks that expanded how heritage environments engage contemporary audiences, embedding participatory and artist-led approaches within one of Europe’s largest conservation organisations while advancing more inclusive relationships between communities, cultural heritage, and landscape.
HELIOS
London, UK
Served as lead producer for Ọkan, a nationally commissioned dance production co-produced by The Place and supported by Arts Council England.
A central aspect of my leadership was securing £80,000 in Arts Council England funding through independently developing and delivering the full application, including strategic framing, budget design, and institutional alignment. This funding enabled the project’s transition from early development into full production and touring.
I led the project across its complete lifecycle, from research and development through to international residency, premiere, and UK touring. This included assembling and managing a large interdisciplinary creative team, negotiating partnerships, overseeing complex budgets, and coordinating production delivery across multiple institutional contexts.
The work required navigating public funding compliance, stakeholder accountability, and operational complexity while maintaining artistic coherence and delivery standards.
Through strategic production leadership, Ọkan successfully evolved into a fully realised touring work, strengthening organisational partnerships and expanding the reach of contemporary dance within national and international networks.
FLOCK TOgether
London, UK
As part of my cultural programming work at the National Trust, I initiated and developed a partnership with Flock Together, a London-based collective centred on birdwatching, environmental awareness, and community wellbeing among people of colour.
The collaboration focused on exploring relationships between marginalised communities and heritage landscapes, responding to longstanding structural barriers to access within both environmental and cultural sectors.
Working across institutional and community contexts, I designed a two-phase programme at Osterley Park and House. This included an immersive research visit enabling the collective to engage with the site environment, followed by the development of a public-facing creative response shaped by participants’ lived experiences of nature, belonging, and spatial memory.
Beyond a single programme intervention, the partnership represented a broader strategic approach to embedding community-led cultural practice within heritage settings. It contributed to evolving institutional thinking around access, ecological engagement, and the role of participatory artistic processes in re-imagining relationships between people, place, and environmental stewardship.