Mansfield Museum

Associate Artists

Meet our team of Associate Artists. They are a talented bunch and help us deliver lots of exciting projects in music, performance, writing, dance and movement, visual arts and more. 

We support them to develop their own ideas and projects, to explore their own inspirations and develop sustainable creative careers.

Leanne Moden is a spoken word poet, performer and workshop leader, based in the East Midlands. She's performed her work all across the UK and Europe, including the Edinburgh Fringe, Trinity College Cambridge, TEDx UCL, and Bestival on the Isle of Wight, as well as festival in France, Spain and Estonia.

Leanne was a national semi-finalist at the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam in 2018,  and she runs the Paper Crane Poets poetry collective in Beeston.

Leanne mostly writes about women’s experiences, and she’s drawn to the work of other writers like Kim Moore, Hollie McNish, and Kim Addonizio. Leanne’s first pamphlet, ‘Liaisons’, was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press in 2015. Her latest collection, 'Get Over Yourself' was published in July 2020 by Burning Eye Books. 

Take a look at Leanne's Website

Ismail Khokon is a British Bangladeshi socially engaged visual artist based in Hucknall, working to platform the experiences of communities whose members have been systematically marginalised.In addition to his artistic practice, Ismail is also trustee at BACKLIT gallery and the Steering Group Member for Contemporary Visual Arts Network in the East Midlands. He is an Artist member at Primary gallery and recently finished his Curate residency at New Art Exchange.

Take a look at Ismail's Instagram

Tom is an multi-disciplinary artist working in music and theatre. Tom’s background as a saxophonist has led to him touring with Papa Soul, Children of the State, The Solar Flares and others. When working in Taipei he released an original Jazz album as ‘Heron 蒼鷺’ available here 

As a workshop leader, Tom has led choirs for several years performing in iconic venues such as SAGE Gateshead, Rotherham Minster and Chatsworth House. He also directs and runs Side by Side, a Sheffield based drama charity for refugees and people seeking asylum, Side by Side frequently performs at The Crucible and Migration Matters Festival.

Head to Tom's Website.

Based at the Harley Foundation Studios on the Welbeck estate near Worksop, Michelle Reader is a sculptor and artist educator who has been making unique figurative sculptures from household waste and found objects since 1998.  Her distinctive sculptures draw attention to environmental issues whilst minimising the environmental impact of the processes used to create them.  These sculptures are often representations of the natural world - for example a wild goat on top of a mountain of fly-tipped kitchen appliances, a bumblebee with a gas mask for a face, or a pipistrelle bat made from the offcuts and discarded fragments collected from her studio neighbours.

Michelle runs workshops in nurseries, libraries, schools, galleries, museums, parks and a multitude of public spaces.  Over the past few years alongside creating two life-size horses for The Harley Gallery, a giant wave for the National Space Centre and glittering unicorns for a light trail at Hampton Court Palace, she has been working with Inspire developing early years sessions in libraries as part of Little Creatives, and will be continuing this Early Years focus in Mansfield.

Michelle's Website.

My name is Miriam Keye. I am a movement artist, teacher, performer and facilitator. 

With over 20 years experience dancing with people from 3 months to 80 years, with a diverse range of backgrounds and abilities I offer sensitive, supportive spaces to discover, befriend and/ or extend our own ways of moving. I am committed to inclusivity and seek to explore our connections with each other and the world around us. 

A certified yoga teacher I am equally happy working 1:1 and with groups. 

Feel free to view my website and contact me to discuss ideas and/ or collaboration

Miriam's website

My mission is to provide opportunities for children and adults to develop an artistic skills in carnival arts. I endeavour to develop and enhance the skills they may not have known they had before. In my work I  seek to provide happiness, safety and purpose, and to install critical daily values to each and every interaction. My company, MProductiontime2show's team is made up of passionate and motived dance leaders and co-ordinators, drama leaders and costume designers. 

MProductiontime2show intention is to perform at events such as carnivals, festivals, celebration events, theatres and community events.

Maria's website