Making art accessible for all

I'm writing a book!

The book will be a practical guide to support inclusion within arts and culture. I was approached by NASEN (The National Association for Special Education Needs) to write the book and have recently signed a contract with the publishing house Routledge.

There is a back story to this...As well as being a practicing artist I also teach young people with learning difficulties and coordinate a festival; The West London Inclusive Arts Festival. During this time I wrote a manifesto to promote cultural inclusion for young people with special educational needs.

The manifesto has a wide range of signatories ranging from politicians, cultural organisations to practicing artists and individuals. You can read it here and hopefully sign it too.

The manifesto gained quite a lot of traction and resulted in a parliamentary launch in January of 2019. The picture shows me speaking at the launch event. The book is a natural progression of the manifesto. The book will explore how inclusion is happening in lots of different settings and give helpful advice on how this can replicated in other settings.