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  Holocaust Memorial Announced on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my next big project will honour the victims of the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. Over the last four years I have been developing this idea to create Holocaust memorial artworks with great emotional power, that will stop people in their tracks. In the words of a Jewish artist friend I showed prototypes to: "It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up".   I need your help to approach survivors and families of survivors and victims to seek their input, thoughts and hopefully their approval for what I am doing. That is the key to me proceeding with the project and so to them I will fully explain my concept. I can’t reveal it to the wider public yet but rather than being large scale impersonal memorials, I envisage small scale, intensely personal artworks that can be installed in public spaces and buildings internationally. They will carry the message to a broader public who might not deliberately seek such things but who will inevitably be hugely moved. Beyond being serene and visually arresting, these they will serve as a warning about rising fascism and antisemitism, reminding

  Elephant survival in Tanzania I have been invited to collaborate with an elephant charity based in Tanzania on an interactive installation to raise interest in an new and fascinating way of preserving the last surviving elephant families in the area. By demonstrating how similar we are to these animals perhaps we can increase the empathy required to save these animals from extinction. Mega fauna is more in peril than ever and it has always been humans who have destroyed them. We have a chance now to change that script. Please join us as we work on this using natural materials and experimental processes to open up hearts and minds to their plight. We are in the development stage. More will soon be revealed

  Evolutionary insights in vaginal morphology and variety I have been invited to collaborate on a scientific paper by a professor of evolutionary biology. The biometric data contained within my hundreds of casts of the body is a unique reference library of genital morphology. By digitising the collection, computer analysis will be able to understand the variations in morphology and their evolutionary direction, providing invaluable insights in the understudied field of women's healthcare. By further adding significantly to the total number of casts this paper could be a game changer for many areas of gynaecological research, product and medicinal development. We are in the fundraising stage. More will soon be revealed

  An end to female genital cutting I have been invited by the Orchid Project to collaborate on a project to raise interest and understanding around the need to end the destruction of young women's genitals via cutting and stitching in the most brutal of fashions. We are creating a series of vulva castings of women who were cut as children and have not yet been able to access reconstructive surgeries. It is hoped these casts will help to demonstrate what these girls endure and what affect it has on their health and their lives. I am also collaborating with Aurora Almadori, a surgeon who offers help and hope to these women via her pro bono surgical interventions. We are in the casting stages. Please consider participating