SARTORIUS

 

I  called this performance Sartorius because…….

Sartor, from the Latin,

Means

Someone who patches and mends

Who makes good.

The Universal Tailor

A migrant artisan

A story in every carefully crafted garment

Patching and mending

Our fractured lives

Making good our sense

Of self,

Who we are

And how we’d like to be  seen.  

Drawing and expanding on extracts from last year's 'The Benefit', I really wanted to highlight the often troubled diasporas of Jewish Tailors and Irish Construction Workers. These respective and often unconsidered journeys coalesce when  Michael, an Irish labourer, purchases a bespoke  overcoat  in a second-hand menswear shop in Camden; a garment originally created by a master craftsman tailor decades earlier in war-torn Europe. 

I was very grateful to DIVERSE ARTISTS NETWORK https://www.diverseartistsnetwork.com/  for affording me the opportunity to perform as part of DIASPORA 2026 and as one of 'Five Women one Show', A Love Letter to Broadmead: Five Women, One Show - Diverse Artists Network Thanks also to Compass Presents Compass Presents – Expanded Cinema, Interactive Encounters who converted a large, empty shop unit into a fantastic theatre - lights and a bar as well!  In fact it was the same shop unit that Andreea Brown and I performed as 'Artivists in a Box' 4 years ago.  

I loved my fellow performers:  Comedian Cosmopolitan Seychellois, Dancer Ceci Opal,  Poet Muneera Pilgrim and Actor / Writer Rene Katiisa. Also they helped attract a warm and responsive audience.  These images were taken by Laura Crouchley.