Me
These are the highlights that changed me forever. Each created, generated and steered by 12-words and 8-stations. Tools I have developed over 25 years. Proven. From posh women to prisoners.
2017. I excavate the Reno, my underworld, teenage nightclub. Re-awakening my non-institutional voice.
2019, Exhibiting our finds, I have its image hung life-size on the Whitworth Gallery walls.
Timelapse. The Reno being hung on the Whitworth Art Gallery Wall. Film: John Lloyd Junior.
2020, Lockdown. Directed by me, 3 Reno affiliated women who have never written before use it to write their intertwined memoirs TWELVE WORDS.
2023, Published by BlueMoose Books.
https://www.waterstones.com/books/reviews/isbn/9781915693099#review-296444
2024. Using my white mum's status, I descend Bette Davis stairs in a bespoke denim ballgown to make myself the mistress of my Jamaican dad's plantation.
2025. I hold an exorcism in a forest of 8-station mind-maps. Ghosts show me how focusing on race hides true trauma.
HOME. My MUM IS WHITE. The Final 8-station mind-map. Film @s.b.hughes
Currently, using 12-words and 8-stations, I am working on:
People Spit in My Pram
People Spit in My Pram. A memoir. And 2 techniques to write your memoir. 8-station mind maps. 12-word chapters. Proven over 25 years. Posh women to prisoners. Serialised here in my newsletter. Subscribe.
THE DRESS
Lowbrow meets highbrow reality TV that takes 8 intergenerational women on a journey to fall in love with themselves.
A Portrait of a Soul
Italian Grand Tour. A Fiat 500. 8-station mind-mapping:
- Caravaggio, Da Vinci, Angelo — artists' great works in its patron church.
- The artist.
- The audience.
Triptychs. Asking who is the artist, obscured by their patrons' propaganda? Therefore who am I, obscured by Arts Council England?