Sian has been one of the main artists involved in the PHF SENsory Atelier programme, exploring and celebrating creative learning for young people with SEND. Sian now continues working as Attenborough Arts Artist Ambassador, with the 14 SEND schools championing the SENsory Atelier programme, which won Learning Programme of the year at the Museum and Heritage awards.

Sian is artist in residence at Attenborough Arts as the music and visual art lead with their Inclusive Youth Arts Programme (IYAP), working with SEND families and young people.

Sian is also continuing my visual sound residency with Platform Thirty1 exploring sensory needs, physical disabilities, and communication differences. Centring on the Total Communication approach, meaning pupils communicate in many ways including gesture, symbols, objects of reference, sound, switches, vocalisation, and movement.

She has also collaborated across the region with a range of cultural organisations including Inspire, The Mighty Creatives, Lakeside Arts Center, Attenborough Arts and The Spark Arts for Children. Working within Learning teams and independently to devise and deliver a diverse, exciting and innovative range of programmes and activities for schools, teachers, young people, families and community groups, and has been Associate Artist at Nottingham Contemporary for the past 15 years.

As an artist, Sian wants to explore the intersection of how art gives everyone a voice, that exploring different art forms can help allow for access, agency and inclusion. She wants to enable others, where she can work at not only opening different artistic and creative experiences but also can act as a translator, a catalyst and impetus. Employing creative ways of looking at and engaging with art through a process that is active, experiential and one that has the capacity to scaffold learning especially with children with special rights.

She is inspired by the ethos of Reggio Emilia in how it can help create opportunities for expanding their voices and how children express themselves