• Performances

    Museums and Galleries

    Listening to stories in a unique space, beside a special object or painting, awakens the imagination. Pomme has been working with museums, galleries, archives and collections for more than 30 years – researching, creating and bringing collections and exhibitions to life through engaging narrative performance. She sees her role as a guide to the imagination, taking the audience inside an object or collection to reveal hidden worlds of culture, history and myth. Allowing audiences to look deeply whilst listening to a story ignites the imagination, enabling audiences to dream into the object and discover the past. Pomme has: created and led promenade performances through galleries, heritage sites, and specific places;…

  • Publications

    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…