Artist Committee

Throughout our history, CDS has continually asked how artists can be at the centre of decision-making, in accordance with our founding mission to be artist-led. Since November 2022, The CDS Artist Committee have met for one paid day per month – working alongside staff and trustees as representatives of the CDS Artist Community.

We see this group as a crucial first step towards more equitable, creative, inclusive, and artist-led governance. As we continue to invest in this project’s future, we’ll seek to share our learning and influence broader change in the sector. 

We’re driven by an eagerness to consider new models of leadership that decentre power and redistribute it to artists who have previous been excluded from decision-making and resources.

Alice Tatge, CDS Artist Committee 23-24

 

 

Renée Bellamy (she/her)

 

 

Renée is an interdisciplinary artist, facilitator and producer whose practice is driven by a curiosity in movement (of images, of bodies) and community. My practice blends choreography, film and photography and is often DIY, iterative and collaborative in nature. Seeing my work as documentary-making, I seek to interact with the world on its own terms.

Max Percy (he/him)

 

 

Max Percy is a multidisciplinary theatre artist attracted to risk, activism and the experimentation of form. Driven by curiosity and collaboration, his company Max Percy + Friends has created cutting-edge performances that centre the British East and South East Asian experience. They have presented bold, innovative and captivating stories that dissect complex and urgent social issues.

So’l Jelenke (she/they)

 

 

So’l Jelenke uses her skills and experiences in performance, writing, directing and producing to explore creatively with the body and film. So’l is particularly interested in championing health and wellbeing through movement and views nature as an extension of the body.

Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson (they/she)

 

Lateisha is a 35 yr old Black queer gender-fluid, ecofeminist, disabled multidisciplinary artist, social-justice facilitator, meditation teacher and cultural-organiser from South London. Lateisha’s art weaves nature, spiritual, collaborative & embodied approaches to support community groups. Such as Misery QTBIPOC Collective, Hackney City Farm BIPOC beekeepers, Healing Justice LDN, Queer Youth Art Collective, CDS:Disabled & Neurodivergent Artist Community and more.

 

Tsipora St. Clair Knights (she/her)

 

Tsipora St. Clair Knights is a multidisciplinary artist & producer from South East London whose creative practice is rooted in exploring the complexities of identity and lived experience through movement, spoken-word poetry and film. As a Board Member of Rising Arts Agency, Purple Moon Drama & a One Dance UK Ambassador, she also uses her art as a tool of activism to create meaningful change, through the lens of addressing a lack of diverse representation, accessibility & elitism within the arts.