ABOUT
Socially Engaged Artist
Nikki creates works in live performance, storytelling, theatre, visual-social art and choral music.
Working in a variety of settings from theatres to community venues to educational institutions to everyday spaces, she specialises in co-created transmedia storytelling as well as documentary, verbatim and musical theatre making.
Consultant Evaluator & Fundraiser
Nikki provides consultancy in both traditional and creative evaluation.
She is also a fundraiser specialising in grants for arts, culture, wellbeing and community projects via trusts and foundations.
Nikki also specialises in governmental and local authority tenders.
Creative Producer
Nikki seeks to bridge communities, cultural engagement and art-making to produce accessible, creative experiences and artworks that are co-created, participant/artist-led and socially engaged.
Governance & Leadership
Nikki is trustee and secretary at The Arcadians, a trustee at Big Dreamers Festival, director of Collective Imagination Community and on Citizen Housing Member Assurance Committee.
What brings you here?
With a participant centred approach at the heart of her practice she endeavours to deliver and support meaningful, engaging and enlightening experiences that are inclusive and relevant to the people, place and time it exists for.
EDUCATION
Chartered Management institute
May 2019 - December 2021
- Diploma in Strategic Management & Leadership Level 7
- Member of CMI (MCM) – Chartered Manager
UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON
May 2019 - November 2021 | Distinction
- Master of Business Administration (Senior Business Leader)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Arts and Culture)
- Senior Leaders Apprenticeship
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
September 2011 - June 2014 | First Class
- BA(Hons) Applied Performance in Community & Education