OSE’s ‘relentless’ tide of experiential artist workshops, diverse presentations and mentoring sessions opened me to manifold influences and a host of different perspectives. They pushed me to step beyond my practice of a more didactic environmentally-focused narrative, and explore much more personal, though perhaps nevertheless in some way also universal, concepts and processes. This has given me a new confidence in my own abilities and capacities, along with a better understanding of the sector and how I might effectively find a place within it.

For the final show Gut Feelings I sought to immerse myself and my ‘readers’ in a Choice Tardis, a circle of seven outer doors through which at any time only one allowed entry to a rotating inner chamber populated by objects and statements that embodied some deeply personal choices. The user was invited to either employ chance through the throw of a dice or their thoughtful consideration, to rotate the inner chamber and select a specific exit door marked by one of my statements – but, if they wished, to substitute key words with their own before exiting and thereby perform and viscerally experience both a real and metaphorical moment of transformation. These statements included: I miss the father I wish I had had; Life is good; I should have loved you better; Hence-forth I shall be a different person [a non-opening door!] – and could equally well be related to the past, present or future. Watch out for the twelve-sided Choice Tardis to come!