A Tramway Performance Now Commission with support from Creative Scotland & The Work Room.An interactive, reparative reading, guiding the audience on an imagined procession in joy and healing. Shifting between collaged narratives centered in Black histories, descriptions of real and imagined spaces, movement provocations and guided body awareness exercises, this performance ritual invites the audience to consider many layers of narratives which intersect an overlap with their own experiences and to move with them, inviting joyful possibilities for collective healing. I was commissioned to read one of the two voices of the reading. Supporting audiences through the performance ritual with verbal provocations and invitations.

In June 2023, volunteers from Glasgow North East residents were invited to exchange stories with Ashanti and work together to create a plaster cast of their face. The project celebrates the cultures and family histories of the Caribbean, Africa and Asia - and explores how these have entangled with Scotland's own. 

I was commissioned to musically and therapuetically facilitate the opening of the exhibition with the creation of a live sound healing bath, which I called music as medicine. Using skills developed from my Sound Healing Certification course. I created a soundscape, using foley and found sounds from landscapes across the continents of Africa, Caribbean, Asia and Scotland. And then performed a live sound bath with instruments from across the world, including Koshi Chimes, handmade at the foot of the Pyrenees, percussion instruments from Africa, hand-beaten Himalayan Bowls and more.

I was commissioned to consult, compose and sound design the sound score for this beautiful film. 

Sekai Machache is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist and curator based in Glasgow. Machache works with a wide range of media including photography. She is the recipient of the 2020 RSA Morton Award and is an artist in residence with the Talbot Rice Residency Programme 2021-2023. Utilising academic, visual, and embodied research at Mount Stuart and in its collections and archives: Machache counters the ongoing erasure of a complex oracular culture that is profoundly connected to envisioning the future. This series of short films will support experimental and innovative storytelling, suggesting alternative readings of past and present, and proffering a model for a decolonised future archive built on collaboration.

Gillian is currently working on a 12 month film, commissioned by National Theatre of Scotland. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is an exploration of alchemising grief and being in communion with self, ancestors, land, and community. Gillian is Writer and Director and the film, which is scored by Gillian’s album, is set to release in Spring 2025.

Provocations and prompts guide participants through a map of Gillian’s most recent research interests applied to a different context. Rooted in emergent strategy, participants are invited to explore notions of critical connection in the belief that this can lay a foundation for societal transformation.

The festival featured guided opportunities for movement building, learning about various places in the social change ecosystem and nourishing workshops to alleviate inner tensions and stressors, equipping us with tools for our personal and community wellbeing. I was commissioned to deliver a workshop on resilience and stress reduction tools using the Resilience Toolkit by Nkem Ndefo, as well as to deliver a sound healing for participants.

I was commissioned to compose the soundscore for a short documentary discussing the works of acclaimed visual artist, Ashanti Harris.

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I was commissioned by lead artist, New York based, India Skye and Embassy Gallery to co-write and co-perform an opening piece for the film and visual installation.

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I was commissioned to create a film for the festival. My film, ‘SPACE 2: We’ve come a long way’, screened at Fringe of Colour. Other Festival Screenings include; ‘Welcome to Afro Future’ Glasgow Film Festival at Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). Scottish Queer Film Festival at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA)

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I was invited to join Hen Hoose, a songwriting collective and music production house based in Glasgow founded by Tamara Schlesinger. It unites a rich and diverse array of wonderfully talented and award-winning female and non-binary artists, writers and producers collaborating on the creation of exciting new music across multiple genres. The Hen Hoose writers have had syncs on Hollywood films, Netflix shows, global TV adverts and have written for theatre productions, along with having highly successful careers as artists. Recent syncs include The ScotGov Vaccine advert campaign, the Caorunn Gin TVC and The A List. Hen Hoose are in the throws of round 2 of their Creative Scotland funded project which includes writers from beyond Scotland this time, thanks to additional funding from the John Lennon Foundation. This last year has seen a huge growth in Hen Hoose, who have curated Festival line ups and expanded their collective members. 

I was commissioned to produce a podcast on community care. In this episode, I invited Glasgow based Postnatal Doula, Laura Rice to speak on her practice and advise on how communities can support new parents. I worked with Edinburgh based sound designer, Shaheeda Sinclair, also known as, Nova Scotia to co-design the soundscape for the podcast.

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I was commissioned as a vocalist to improvise and perform as part of lead artist Nima Sene’s show for Brownton Abbey’s live art festival.

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I was commissioned to compose and record a soundscore for the documentary, Ghost Island. I invited Glasgow based sound designer, Matthew Williams to co-design the soundscore. The film has won various awards including, Best Experimental Short at New York Indie Shorts Awards, Indie Shorts Awards Cannes, and was screened at Photo Vogue Italia Festival and Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival

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