Carolyn has over 20 years’ experience working internationally as a researcher, artist and facilitator in business, charity, educational, community and cultural contexts.
Passionate about applying creativity to the work environment, Carolyn integrates accessible storytelling and design thinking with practical concepts and behavioural theory to illuminate people’s capacity for connection and imagination.
With a PhD in co-creating culture and policy (London South Bank University), and an MA in performance design and practice (Central Saint Martins) Carolyn works regularly in cross-sector partnerships to examine how both academic theory and artistic approaches can support a range of needs, build understanding across difference, and productively disrupt ‘business as usual.’ Working with clients including the NHS, local councils, children and family services, museums, schools, housing associations, and policy makers – Carolyn has facilitated dialogue and helped design strategies on a range of issues from health and housing to social cohesion and migration policy.
Additionally, Carolyn’s 12 years of experience as an actor and educator in Chicago and more recent 10 year history of creating multi-disciplinary artworks in London gallery and community contexts offer a range of applied skills in presentation, communication, impact, strategic planning and leadership. Recent work includes a series of moving image portraits of local people at Westfield Shopping Centre and an interactive video mural for children’s services at the Tessa Jowell Health Centre, commissioned by Dulwich Picture Gallery. She is also co-founder of multimedia storytelling platform, kissingproject.org, which brings people from all walks of life together through stories that begin with a kiss.
The Dulwich Picture Gallery/Tessa Jowell Health Centre project