COMMON SALT
Common Salt is a performance around a table – a ‘show and tell’. It explores the colonial, geographical history of England from the first Enclosure Act and the start of the East India Company in the 1600s, to 21st century narratives of trade, empire and culture. A book about the project is available to buy in Sheila’s shop…
A Restorative
A Restorative is a participatory artwork inviting those that drop by to fill a dream pillow with their own particular restorative mix of herbs and ingredients, and then try it out…
THIS HEAD THESE HANDS
This Head These Hands was commissioned by Heart of Glass in early 2020, and began as an invitation to work with St Helen’s Young Carers to make a new art-work together… The project then paused in April due to Covid, but in September Sheila began working on a suitable approach to moving ideas forward again…
RAMBLES WITH NATURE KIT
Rambles with Nature Kit was commissioned by Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2021. As the name suggests it is a translation of Sheila’s Rambles with Nature project into a Kit – drawing together some of the tips and tools that she has used over the years, with instructions – so that others too might undertake a Ramble with Nature, at their own leisure and on their own terms…
CAREGIVER (FORGET-ME-NOT)
Caregiver (forget-me-not) was the outcome of an invitation made to Sheila and several other artists by the Brussels based organisation CIFAS in April 2020 - to think about public space in relation the Covid-19 crisis…
