Creative director DearTomorrow
I joined DearTomorrow in 2022 after initially being invited to curate a collaboration between DearTomorrow and Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the UK. What began as a one-year residency and exhibition partnership evolved into an ongoing role within the organisation, and today I work part time with DearTomorrow as a curator and creative director.
My work focuses on bringing the visual and creative side of DearTomorrow to life — developing exhibitions, shaping creative concepts, curating collaborations, and building immersive experiences that connect storytelling, climate awareness, and community engagement.
The exhibition of DearTomorrow letters become a space for empathy, participation, and collective reflection.
I currently work with the team around one and a half days a week, leading on exhibition curation, creative direction, visual identity, production, and collaborative projects. A large part of my role involves translating emotional and often complex conversations around climate change into experiences that feel accessible, human, and participatory.
What I love most about DearTomorrow is that it approaches climate storytelling differently. Rather than focusing purely on data or crisis, the project creates space for reflection, emotion, imagination, and connection. Through letters, photography, film, poetry, installations, workshops, and public participation, DearTomorrow invites people to think about the future in a deeply personal way.
My own background is in photography and filmmaking, having spent over twenty years working across fashion, editorial, advertising, and exhibition projects internationally. In recent years, my practice has increasingly shifted towards using creativity as a tool for advocacy, storytelling, and social change — particularly around the climate crisis.
The Wolverhampton residency became an important starting point for this work. Over the course of a year, we collaborated with local artists, writers, students, and community organisations to create exhibitions and public programmes exploring heritage, identity, climate, and future imagining. Nearly 20,000 people engaged with the project, contributing letters, artworks, poetry, recordings, and conversations that became part of the exhibitions themselves.
What stayed with me from that experience was seeing how creativity can open up conversations that might otherwise feel overwhelming or difficult. Exhibitions became spaces not only for information, but for empathy, participation, and collective reflection.
That continues to be at the centre of my role at DearTomorrow today — creating visual and collaborative experiences that help people connect emotionally with the future, with each other, and with the possibility of change.
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Nellie
So happy to have you onboard with us!
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Sarah M
Glad you have found a way to combine creativity and purpose led work!
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Chris
I loved seeing this in a recent DearTomorrow exhibition!