Poppy has been working as a community-based artist in the UK and Australia since 2002. She is skilled across a range of media and is particularly adept at collaborating with communities to utilize materials and experiences from their lives to create contemporary artworks. Poppy has presented community-based projects at the Perth International Arts Festival, London International Festival of Theatre, AWESOME Festival and Artrage Festival. She won the Fremantle Print Award in 2002, the Australia Council Kirk Robson Award for young leaders in Community Cultural Development in 2010 and was awarded the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts Young People and the Arts Fellowship in 2007. Since 2008 she has been Community Art Co-ordinator for YMCA HQ (www.hq.org.au) and freelanced as a designer and artistic director of film, animation and theatre, including an animation for Nickelodeon. Phone: 0438 992 465 Email: poppyvog@hotmail.com Web: www.poppyvog.com