SELECTED WORKS
Naomi’s work spans participatory installation, community-led cultural development and practice-based research. Across projects in the UK and US, she works with young people, educators and communities to co-create work that responds to place, memory and lived experience.
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TOWN OF CHILDREN (2024)
Participatory place-making project developed with children and young people across Bolton, Greater Manchester, exploring what it looks like when young people take a lead in shaping cultural design and imagining more playful cities.
Naomi works collaboratively with young people, educators and communities to develop cultural projects rooted in local contexts. This work centres shared authorship, supporting participants to shape creative activity that reflects their experiences of place, identity and belonging.
Projects are developed through workshops, co-design processes and open calls, often taking place across schools, civic spaces and town centres. These processes lead to exhibitions, events and programmes that activate local environments and contribute to wider cultural and civic dialogue.
This strand of work is developed in partnership with organisations, including through Creatives Now, an arts organisation in Bolton directed by Naomi, supporting community-led cultural development.
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Community & Youth-led Cultural Development
Participatory Installation & Performance
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A PARADISE OF DISPLACEMENT (2025)
Large-scale immersive installation developed as practice-based research, combining sound, text and built elements within a 500 sq. ft. environment. Presented at Ingenuity, Cleveland, OH, the work is activated through participant interaction and explores displacement as a collective, spatial experience.
Participatory Installation & Performance
Naomi creates immersive, participatory installations and performances that invite audiences into shared, reflective experiences. This work is developed through practice-based research, testing how environments can hold dialogue, memory and collective expression.
Projects are designed and led from concept through to delivery, bringing together sound, material, text and spatial design to create environments that audiences actively engage with. Participation is central, with visitors contributing to and shaping the work through their presence, interaction and response.
Projects such as Ear to the Ground operate at the intersection of installation, performance and social practice, using multi-arts approaches to structure collective experience and explore how people meet, listen and act together in shared space.
These works create conditions for encounter, where participation becomes the work itself and collective reflection is held through environment, form and facilitation.
PARTICIPATORY THEATRE, THEATRE IN EDUCATION
& COMMUNITY DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY
(2014–2026)
Greater Manchester, UK / Cleveland, OH, USA
Ongoing body of work spanning participatory theatre, creative learning and community co-designed cultural development. Developed through workshops, performance and collaborative processes, this work engages young people and communities in shaping cultural activity, supporting shared authorship and place-based approaches to participation.
This work is led through the development and facilitation of community-based arts programmes, including mural projects, theatre and film-making, exhibitions and participatory cultural initiatives. It includes the direction and management of a creative arts space and affiliated programmes that support local participation, reduce barriers to engagement and build shared cultural belonging.
Alongside this, Naomi’s practice includes ongoing research into place, participation and cultural infrastructure, exploring how creative work can operate within civic contexts and support new forms of engagement between communities, education and cultural organisations.
Using methods such as situated observation, co-design and collaborative enquiry, projects are developed in response to specific places and local conditions, creating accessible, locally rooted opportunities for cultural production and exchange.
This research-led approach connects artistic practice with wider programme development, linking local experience to broader questions of access, agency and participation within cultural ecosystems.
