FACILITATION:
Sheila is an experienced facilitator of workshops in both academic and non-academic settings and has worked with most age ranges and abilities.
Spaces she has taught and co-created work at include Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Heart of Glass, Peterborough Presents, Battersea Arts Centre, Wimbledon UAL, Queen Mary University, Rose Bruford, University of Chichester, Birkbeck College London, University of Salford, King's College, Ealing Council's Pitzhanger Manor and Walpole Park and The Barbican in London. She has also led projects and activities within hospitals, schools and daycare settings, working with vulnerable adults, elders and young children.
MENTORING:
Sheila regularly mentors both independent artists and students undertaking post-graduate courses. Institutions that have employed her as a mentor include Rose Bruford, University of Chichester, a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) in Brussels and Queen Mary University of London.
PERFORMING MEDICINE ASSOCIATE ARTIST:
Sheila is an Associate Artist for Clod Ensemble's Performing Medicine Project, regularly working with medical students across London.
TALKS:
Sheila is regularly invited to speak about her work. Sites and spaces she has given talks at include Common Salt The Symposium at University of Glasgow 2023, Modern Painters New Decorators 2023, The Commons A Gathering at The Museum of English & Rural Life 2022, Health, Activism and Arts Practice online seminar presented by Tate Liverpool in partnership with Birmingham School of Art 2021, Performing Solidarity at Live Art Development Agency 2019, Praxis Forum at The Showroom 2018, Creative Climate, a symposium at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre 2018, Breaking Bread: On Otherness (by Two Destination Language) 2018, Residence’s I’m Still Standing in Bristol 2016, Buzzcut’s Sideburns Symposium Glasgow 2016, With For About: A Conversation about Collaboration in St Helens (for Heart of Glass / Axisweb) 2015, CIFAS in Brussels as part of SIGNAL 2014, Keynote Speaker at Gobsmacked a one-day conference at Queen Mary University 2010, Speaker at Symposium on Kitsch in Performance at Theatre Genvilliers Paris 2010.
ARTISTS GROUPS:
Sheila is a member of several self-initiated artists groups including the Living Room Project which received funding from both the Australia Council and Arts Council England to undertake a 6 week residency in Sydney.
RESOURCES:
Sheila’s Checklist of Care is available for free HERE.
A book about Common Salt published in 2021 by Live Art Development Agency (including the work’s full text and actions), is available to buy in Sheila’s shop.
Sheila produced a Rambles with Nature pocket book in 2016, available to download for free via Sheila’s shop.
In 2009 Sheila also made To Sum it Up for the Live Art Development Agency's DVD Everything You Still Wanted to Know About Live Art But were Afraid to Ask. Contributors were invited to make short films saying something, or even everything, that they think younger artists should know about Live Art.
