I am a Fine Art Masters-qualified artist with 10+ years teaching experience. I have lectured in stammering and culture and body language at universities, and tutored cultural studies and English at various colleges and language schools, mostly in Istanbul where I lived for ten years until 2014. Apart from my two degree dissertations, I have published two books on modern art theory/history, and run a music and arts venue on the Sussex coast. I am Editor of False Allegations Watch, a division of Dr Michael Naughton's (University of Bristol) Empowering the Innocent project.

I have trained and worked as a Samaritans listener, have two Peer Mentoring certificates and an NCFE Certificate in Mental Health Awareness. I gave a TED talk titled Stammering and Creativity in Istanbul in 2013, and am a volunteer/contributor to STAMMA (previously British Stammering Association). I am an active-listener, student-centred style of teacher, but able to give authoritative lectures too. My specialisms are in twentieth century art history, stammering and culture and contemporary justice reform.

I am a continuing arts practitioner; publishing poetry, having a Saatchi Gallery online page, and having recorded seven albums. I have variously worked as contributor, promoter or interviewer with the T.S. Eliot Foundation, Sky Arts, BBC Radio Wales, Time Out Istanbul, New Thinking, Louder Than War, Ed Harcourt, Kristin Hersh, Mark Morriss, Eat Static, David Macadam Freud, Ali Lapper, John Robb and Fiona Larkin.