I’m a West Midlands artist-practitioner with nearly twenty years’ experience working across schools, PRUs, alternative provision, prisons and community settings around the country and internationally.

Alongside this educational work, I’m a published novelist, poet and playwright, and I perform and write under the name Polarbear. My creative work (google me) has been award-winning and internationally recognised, but more importantly it has shaped how I think about voice, attention and participation.

That background informs the way I work in educational spaces — not as performance, but as practice. I’m interested in how stories are built collaboratively, how ideas emerge when pressure is reduced, how inclusion and value facilitate empowerment and how creativity can become a shared resource rather than something reserved for the confident or articulate.

The work I do in schools is practice-first and relational. It is grounded in care and in celebration of what happens in real rooms, with real people, bringing themselves and sharing.