The last few months of 2025 were busy ones and saw the "Convergences" exhibition travel to the US and to Belgium.

Since 2019, I have been working as an artist, designer and restorative facilitator with the Encounter of the Encounters group which includes participants from the Basque Country, Italy, Northern Ireland, Israel, Palestine, Belgium, and Ukraine. Participants share the harmful effects of political violence and the commitment to prevent its reoccurrence - as those who resorted to violence and those who were harmed by it. The group uses the restorative circle method to enable dialogue - facilitated by experienced and trained practitioners from different countries. This exhibition contains work co-created between participants within the group and also work created by me in response to the group.

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In October 2025,  I was an invited plenary speaker to the International Institute for Restorative Practices World Conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Entitled "Artful Intregration; Exploring the Art and Science of Restorative Practices", it was a subject close to my heart. There are a handful of people in the restorative justice/ practices world working in the broad intersection between restorative practices and creativity. This conference was significant as it brought all of us together under one roof for the first time which. Imaginatively, the conference organisers had also curated an exhibition space in which invited artists and performers showcased their work. I was one of these and contributed the, "Convergences; Collaborative artwork to aid dialogue with the other", exhibition. It was commissioned from me in 2024 by Professors Gema Varona and Idoia Igartua of the University of the Basque Country and the Basque Institute of Criminology. I was delighted that Gema was able to join me in presenting the exhibition at the conference.

At the conference I was delighted to meet and present alongside people and organisations whom I've long admired, some of whom I knew and had met previously, but with some this was the first time; Lindsey Pointer of Vermont Law and Graduate School, Deanna van Buren of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces architectural practice, Barb Toews of University of Washington Tacoma, Joseph Iacona of the Mural Arts project in Philadelphia.

A few weeks after returning from the US I and the "Convergences" exhibition was on back on the road again - this time to Leuven, Belgium to take part in the REstART Festival on the Art of Justice, Dialogue and Repair and celebrating 25 Years of the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ). I am deeply grateful to INNO, Leuven, for the loan of the mannequins which helped bring the exhibition to life. Also, to members of the EFRJ team for their imaginative transportation of them on bicycles which was inspirational!