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Creations inspired by the Archetypes
In 2010 I created my debut solo show THE HISTORY OF THE POMEGRANATE at Jacksons Lane in London. Using the myth of Persephone and her descent into the underworld as a guide to my own journey of the death of the Maiden within me. It became the birth of my work as a solo artist and as a singer- songwriter. I used a loop pedal to create magical sound worlds and multilayered vocal songs. It was my first journey in the shadowlands and the source of my curiosity and passion to use Myth and Archetypes as tools for healing, growth and transformation. I consumed Jean Shinoda Bolen's book "Goddesses in Everywoman" and Clarissa Pinkola Estes' book ‘Women Who Run With The Wolves’ and my work began.........

Two years later in 2012 I created and directed THE SEVENTH MUSE at the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth for YMT with a cast of 36 young women. I was blown away by the humility and courage of these young women to trust the work we were exploring. Using the Goddesses: Persephone, Artemis, Athena, Hestia, Hera, Demeter and Aphrodite in their shadow and light poles as inspiration for the work. This experience was the beginning of the Embodied Archetype Workshops.

Then  in 2014 I created HARVEST FIRE  at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen with a cast of 36 young women and men. It was the first time I had worked across genders. And to be fair, I was totally scared it would be too much for the young people. But I was wrong. It was epic! The power of the teachings from archetypal work is so potent and ancient that these young people got it. For this production I used "King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine" by Robert Moore as a source of inspiration, which is written from the Male perspective. So I absorbed everything the book said about the masculine, made my refinements and "translated" it for the feminine. Then translated that into source material to make an hour long piece of transformational theatre, drawing on some of the principles of Burning Man and Lughnasadh - with a band!.

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In 2018 I led a deep diving process to create WILD with a cast of 39 young women at the Barbican Theatre in, Plymouth. Exploring the Wild Woman and the journey from naive Maidenhood to Wild integrated Womanhood. Inspired by stories from “Women Who Run With The Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
And in the same year I recorded and released HECATE, speaking of my own journey with the goddess of the witches, a journey that led me into and out of the shadowlands. A quest for greater wisdom, greater surrender and greater emergence into the mature feminine
What is next? My personal journey has taken me into the tender arms of healing my own Inner Child and my abandonment wound.  Learning to deeply love myself, find home and sovereignty in my soul in my body and a new home in my motherland, Ireland.  Where I have well and truly found my roots, potency and joy. There will be a new album out in 2023 called HOME that speaks of this journey. I've also been facilitating and directing other creatives in the magic of new ritualistic, shamanic, transformational performance, which has been a pleasure and in 2022 we had the first WILD & WISE retreat in Ireland. 

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