In 2016 I led the ‘Sea Empress Project’ a  self led Heritage Lottery Funded project, that partnered with the Reading Room — a community building, situated in the coastal village of Manorbier (Pembrokeshire, Wales) and Oriel Myrddin Art Gallery (Carmarthen). Over the course of a year I delivered a substantial oral history and community art project based around the Sea Empress oil spill that devastated this region in February, 1996.

Throughout the ‘Sea Empress’ Project I trained and worked with volunteers to record 40 people’s memories of the event and to collect 100's of artefacts and photographs, now accessioned to the National Library of Wales archive and People's Collection online. I also delivered a public program of talks, events, film screenings, workshops in schools and exhibitions at the Reading Room and produced four themed project newspapers, which were distributed locally and made available online that featured pre-existing, as well as newly commissioned works by artists and writers. These publications – entitled Tide, Deep Time, Animism and Memory worked to explore areas of interest that surfaced throughout the project and extended understanding of the Sea Empress oil spill beyond its established narratives.