Category Archives: Art

Flourish Awards 2026 – Finalist (Healthy Award)

We are delighted that Natural Wonder has been selected as a Finalist for the Flourish Awards 2026 – as a finalist for the Healthy award! We take a lot of pride in seeing how much children benefit from the poetry collection’s programmes, projects and activity across Norfolk – our hope is that opportunities like this… Read More »

How to help nesting birds – interview in Ideal Home magazine

Nesting season occurs throughout the summer months until autumn, so right now UK birds need our help. I shared some tips with Ideal Home magazine last week which you can read here. Long grasses, dandelion puff balls and cobwebs – all help make an ideal home for birds. Make your own hanging dispenser to support… Read More »

Happiness is Growing – ‘Grow Happy’ Restoring, Planting & Poems

We are so delighted to have been supported by Community Action Norfolk to have been awarded funding to support ‘Grow Happy’ – an initiative giving fun opportunities for people to take part in restoring a butterfly meadow and walkway at University of East Anglia inspired by Natural Wonder’s Happiness Is Growing poem. We will be… Read More »

Natural Wonder Wins Award – January 2026

We started 2026 with a successful winter programme for participatory poetry collection Natural Wonder, with snow appearing in Norfolk just after our fabulous show with the Puppet Tree ‘In Search of Snow’ was an inspiring success for the children and team involved. We were also given an award for Natural Wonder – for the help… Read More »

Winter Natural Wonder Programme – December 2025 – January 2026

Our Natural Wonder winter programme is taking place in December and on January 2nd 2026. As well as running our popular sessions on Cary’s Meadow again on 22nd and 23rd December, we are welcoming children to a new venue at Pulls Ferry on 29th and 30th December. Plus we are beyond excited to be collaborating… Read More »

Your Words Are A Gift Workshop – Wymondham Community Outreach Project

It was such an honour to visit Wymondham Community Outreach Project back in June with brilliant charity Bookbanks as part of their Matthew’s Talks – a series of inclusive talks at UK foodbanks. We ran a wonderful workshop with one of my Natural Wonder poems Happiness Is Growing (created with support from Arts Council England)… Read More »

Natural Wonder In Green Parent Magazine, English 4-11 & Summer Sessions 2025

Natural Wonder in Summer Press / Magazines You can read a lovely article about Natural Wonder in The Green Parent magazine this month (June’s issue) too! The piece focuses on the inspiration behind the collection and features a lovely photo of myself with my son, by Mary Doggett. You can order a copy of the… Read More »

You Don’t Need A Manifesto To Begin @ Hundred Heroines Museum, A Visual Homage To Sophie

My visual poem You Don’t Need A Manifesto To Begin (2024) is exhibited at the Hundred Heroines museum and art gallery. Curated by the tour de force that is Ania Ready, of I Also Fight Windmills – A Visual Homage To Sophie runs until June 1st in celebration of the life of Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska. Also… Read More »

Feature Published: Here Is A Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival – Kettle’s Yard

Loved writing this commission for Selvedge Magazine featuring an interview with curator Amy Tobin, exploring Candace Hill-Montgomery (whose weaves you can see in the photo above on the right) and Cecelia Vicuña’s work (pictured as above and below) to the show which runs until 29th June 2025. You can read the review published here. More… Read More »

Springtime 2025 Workshops & Recommended Events

We Share the Same Air [1.1] – Fiona McDonald, BogSkin, RHA Gallery Dublin Recommended Events, Book & Art launches I’m looking forward to attending launches and press views for Here Is A Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival opening at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge on 22nd March – 29th June and ‘Through The Microscope: Secrets… Read More »