2021 Artists Archives - CRIPtic Arts

Sahera Khan, light brown skin, round face, smiling a little, black round glasses, black turban and wearing a khaki shirt.

Introducing Sahera Khan

What made you want to be an artist / performer? I always want be an actor since I was young but it never happened. When I became older, I experienced lots of different directions in my life. Finally, I found my passion for my career which was the creative industry. I have now been an…

Introducing Lata Nobes – Associate Director

What made you want to be an artist / performer? I was first interested in performance through music. I think I was listening to Beethoven before I could tie my shoelaces. I found music to be something that transcended the day to day, and lifted me out of anxiety and stress – something which I…

Introducing Rylan Gleave

What made you want to be an artist / performer? I suppose my flair for the dramatic! I trained as a singer before studying as a composer, then my voice began to gradually creep back into my work. What/who inspires your craft? Much of my work addresses both the personal and political, stemming from a…

Introducing Rufus Isabel Elliot

What made you want to be an artist / performer? I don’t really know how to answer this question. I love music, but struggled a lot with performing before I got into the more composing and writing side of things. I had a brilliant A Level teacher who taught me that it was okay to…

Introducing Tom Ryalls

What made you want to be an artist / performer? I decided to do GCSE drama because I thought I fancied a girl in the class, turns out it was in that class I realised I was gay. I didn’t find a girlfriend but I did find a space in which we were given permission…

Introducing Miss Jacqui

What made you want to be an artist / performer? I’ve always been creative and I wasn’t always sure I could be an artist/performer because I never saw anyone who looked like me do what I wanted to do. I guess I stopped wait for someone else to be the first and jumped in. I…

Introducing Oli Isaac

Oli Isaac What made you want to be an artist / performer? It was always lingering at the back of my head, but I could never decide whether I wanted to be a poet, or film-maker, or novelist, or theatre-maker (and I still don’t). It wasn’t until I got onto development programmes at places like…

Introducing Bibi June

Bibi June What made you want to be an artist / performer? I’m an artist because it brings me joy: to make art, to be creative, and to share that art with others. I love stories and storytelling, and that’s why I started out doing performance poetry. Over time, that love for stories has developed…

Introducing MC Geezer

MC Geezer What made you want to be an artist / performer? I always have love of music so when I was a teenager I got my first Turntable then I become more interested to become and mc, few year down the line I met Troi lee the founder of Deaf Rave who got me…

Introducing Alice Christina-Corrigan

Alice Christina-Corrigan What made you want to be an artist / performer? As a child I was very nervous and incredibly shy, until one day I got up in class and found my ‘spark’ and I never looked back. Since then I grew as a person and always knew I wanted to be working in…