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Galleries and Gardens
Sally Pomme Clayton has extensive experience of creating stories with exhibitions, objects, sites and buildings. She has been working with museums, galleries and heritage organizations for more than 25 years, bringing collections, buildings, gardens and archives to life through narrative performance. She uses stories to inspire and share, create and interpret. She sees her role as guide to the imagination – taking the audience inside an object or location to reveal hidden worlds of culture, history and myth. She loves to collaborate with heritage teams and artists to create story based activities, events, performances, workshops and interactive experiences. Pomme has: created and led promenade performances through galleries and museums, heritage…
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Written Word
Sally Pomme Clayton is a writer of stories, performances, lyrics, texts, plays, articles and blogs. Her writing grows out of performance, exploring written forms that keep oral qualities alive. She loves to combine folklore with history, myth with biography, travel stories with cultural history, anecdotes with fairytales. Her latest book is for adults ‘The Mighty Goddess – world myths’ illustrated by her long term collaborator Sophie Herxheimer (The History Press 2023). She has published 16 children’s books, the latest are: ‘Violet and the Sea Giant’ (Autin Dance Theatre 2022); The King with Dirty Feet’ (Otter-Barry Books 2021 / 2018) winner of The Oxford Book Award ‘Best Picture Book 2019’; ‘The Phoenix…
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Commissions
Sally Pomme Clayton creates unique stories, performances, scripts, lyrics, publications, linking to exhibitions, festivals, buildings, events, and sites, for arts organizations, businesses, galleries, theatres, and museums. She has been commissioned to create work for: Brent Libraries (2023); Omnibus Theatre (2019); Totally Thames (2018); The Tower of London (2018); Hillingdon Libraries (2017); Wellcome Collection (2016); The National Gallery (2014); The Royal Shakespeare Company (2013); The London Philharmonic Orchestra (2012); The Swedenborg Society (2011- 2012); The British Museum’s ‘A History of the world in 100 objects’ (2010 – 2011); Joglaresa (2009); The British Library (2005); WOMAD (2004); The Unicorn Children’s Theatre (2004 and 2000); Southbank Centre (2003 and 2002); Welsh National Opera (2002): Chichester…
