The show is very autobiographical, and while it is not especially about my Mother being from a different time with different expectations, I guess it also is. It is about a cross-generational clash, and the mending of this. It is about a character with little or negative outlook in life, made worse by her disability.Continue reading “Mother love and a tutor called Karn – Lucy Saunders asked me some questions about creating the show ‘Girl In Suitcase’”
Category Archives: Life
Breaking the Muslim Tradition & Celebrating Transformation
Anita was brought up in Malaysia as a Sunni Muslim, where women have some freedom of choice about whether to cover their heads and faces. As a young person her parents brought her to London and throughout her 20s she chose a conventional path; marriage, university, career in a bank and the birth of herContinue reading “Breaking the Muslim Tradition & Celebrating Transformation”
can’t buy love
Megan Morgan follows me as we cycle over the bridge to the Mall, I want to show her where it is. I tell her what it’s like to model naked all the time and why I love it. How the artists, some of them, know a part of me neither friends nor family do. HowContinue reading “can’t buy love”
Girl In Suitcase
This is the performance project I am working on for The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It began when I was looking for advice about funding and direction for Spirited Bodies, as a possible social enterprise. A new contact in the life drawing world put me in touch with one Alex Dunedin, the director of The RaggedContinue reading “Girl In Suitcase”
Guestblog: Contrasting Worlds – Secret Life Model
I live in at least 2 worlds – World 1 where nudity is required, and where the use of a gown is the only veil to a complete acceptance of a naked body in a room of clothed observers. It’s non-judgmental – fat or thin, white or black, hairy or shaved, anything goes and observersContinue reading “Guestblog: Contrasting Worlds – Secret Life Model”
Spirited Bodies 