Karen is an Artistic Director/Creative Producer with 30 years’ experience of producing arts festivals, events, performances, installations & community engagement projects of all scales.
She is the driving force behind The Bicycle Ballet Company, since dreaming up the initial idea on a sunny Sunday afternoon on a low tide beach, & is privileged to continue developing crazy, bicycle-related ideas with a fantastic & supportive group of collaborators.
She is also the creator of:
The Living Coast Undersea Experience, an educational, virtual reality experience enabling users to explore the underwater environment of Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone (between Brighton Marina & Beachy Head) without getting wet! &
reCyculture is an installation project which repurposes old & disused bikes to create high impact installations on walls & rooftops. The project evolved across different sites between 2006 & 2012.
Before all these, Karen produced outdoor arts events & performances for Zap Art, over 100 outdoor festivals & events, around 30 commissions of new work of all scales, by UK & international companies including WILDWORKS, Transe Express, Groupe F, The World Famous & KompleX KapharnauM, some with large scale community, professional development & educational projects alongside. Further information in Producing the Goods. Karen’s chapter on page 12, from ‘Zap Art, 25 Years of Cultural Innovation.’
She has also worked with Periplum, Charlie Morrissey & done various bits & pieces for Red Earth, Magnetic Events, Up Stream & Rachel Henson.
She is currently develop a range of future projects, more info on www.kp-projects.co.uk
