Work With Me
Are you interested in working with me on a publication, or are you a brand that would like to team up on Instagram? Would you like to book me for a bespoke walking tour, or would you like to work together on some other creative project?
Email me: theskyliner.org@gmail.com
writing& RESEARCH
Whether it be creative writing for an arts project or taking a more journalistic approach to articles for newspapers and magazines, writing is my first love. I have written for publications such as The Guardian, Caught By the River, Elsewhere Journal, Untapped Cities, and Manchester Confidential. I love to write about cities and wilderness, and where those two things combine, but my journalism revolves predominantly around issues such as heritage preservation, gentrification, public space and many other urban issues and points of conversation. If there’s a meaty research process to sink my teeth into - all the better.
content
I have provided content services for many clients, largely those with a focus on history or architecture. I regularly write website and blog copy for Bruntwood, and manage much of their cultural content providing case studies for evaluation purposes. I also work with social media content and can take over an Instagram or Twitter feed, offer sponsored posts, sponsored blogs, press trips, and partnerships with brands I admire and support. In terms of sponsored content I only work with clients whose values I admire, or whose overall project goal and audience aligns with my own.
Media Packs available on request.
tours, Talks & EVENTS
I run public tours but am available for private tours, talks and events. I am an informal tour guide, meaning I am not a Blue or Green Badge, but this affords me the freedom to discuss more difficult topics such as homelessness and gentrification, and to provoke discussion amongst guests. I engage with my subject and support it by including stops at local independent businesses, commissioning artists to work with me on content, and by giving back what I can to the public or charity, for example: providing free tour spaces to the disadvantaged (see FAQs), running shorter tours for parents with young babies, and from time-to-time I will profit share with select charitable causes. I have ten years experience guiding.
Cultural placemaking and public art consulting
As well as tours, I work as a Cultural Placemaking Strategist as Rocking Chair Riot - specialising in both ethics and equity of art and places, and in place-based research. Part of my placemaking extends to retail and leisure advice, branding venues and developments, and public engagement. A feature of my public engagement includes walking interviews which combines consultation with my knowledge and experience of critical-thinking tours. My aim is good ethics, good context, and to provide developers and venues with the tools to understand their place in ways they may not have interrogated. To work with me, or for further details see: Rocking Chair Riot.