Residencies

As well as working with various hospitals and health facilities around London and The South East, I am currently resident with the organisations below, for whom I provide weekly hospital music sessions:

  • CW + (Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital)
  • The Royal Marsden Hospital
  • Breathe Arts Health Research (Guys Hospital and St Thomas Hospital)

The sessions all promote Wellbeing through live music for patients, visitors and staff; and help to contribute to the clinical environment by reducing senses of stress and isolation often felt on the wards. 

CW +

As harpist in residence for CW + I provide weekly harp sessions at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital as part of the Arts For All programme.

Sessions take place across a wide variety of clinical areas: including Peadiatrics, Older Adult units, Maternity care, Surgical wards, Oncology, Outpatient clinics and more.

Pluck Mini Theatre

As part of the Arts For All Programme I also collaborate with puppet artist Joni- Rae Carrick and we have developed Pluck to combine puppetry and live harp music to create sensory mini-theatre shows. We received Arts Council Project Grant funding in 2024 to develop a series of new works, we now perform these in our sessions across the hospital.

Click on the images below to see and hear snippets of our work.

Breathe Arts Health Research

As part of the resident music programme for Breathe AHR, I play multiple sessions every month in a variety of ward, outpatient and community clinic settings across Guys, St Thomas, and Evelina Children’s Hospitals.

As well as patient led sessions I also lead staff wellbeing sessions across the hospital sites.

The Royal Marsden Hospital

I deliver weekly sessions in the Sutton building for The Royal Marsden Hospital, playing relaxing sessions in outpatient clinics and wards.

Previous Residences

GOSH Arts

As a long standing resident musician for GOSH Arts (previously Go Create!) at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital I have been involved in their arts programme for many years, beginning my sessions at GOSH as far back as 2012.

I helped set up early evening ‘bedtime sessions’ in the wards, where the music helps patients and families transition to a potentially daunting overnight stay in hospital and have been involved in many projects and iterations of the hospital arts programme over the years.