I feel like I’ve spent weeks doing very little but applying for opportunities - primarily in an attempt to support my practice financially, but also to support it creatively. This is hugely time consuming. It’s also time spent with the full knowledge that the likelihood of the outcome being successful is minute. The uncertainty and sense of vulnerability this instils, both in the doing and in the waiting for the result, is quite intense.

As a studio holder at Spike Island I applied to the studio funds scheme for £250. With so little funding out there this fund is far from insignificant. I was awarded the money to enable me to spend a day with a dramaturg, interrogating and developing my solo performance piece, in my skin. I could have approached a number of excellent people to take up this role but Caroline Williams was top of my list and she said yes.