Gaylene  Gould is a socially-engaged artist who works with people, places and materials to create worlds of deeper connection. Inspired by marginalised and buried histories, she collaborates with communities to unearth those stories and connect them with their own. The stories are transformed through conversation, collective-making and ritual to create emotionally-engaging  artworks, installations and experiences. She often collaborates with other global majority artists to realise these visions. Together they've landed a spaceship in public space to collect memories, invited people to listen to themselves on the street and reimagined a 21st century public healing well inspired by a 17th Century Black well keeper.   

The projects are designed to be both restorative and provocative, offering respite for participants and inspiration to policy makers,  encouraging them to work towards a more inclusive world. Afterwards, gifts from the projects  are shared to  inspire more people.  Her work has been commissioned by the Tate, V&A, Durham University, Clore Leadership, BAM, Light Up Kilburn and exhibited at Wellcome Collection and NAE Open.

Gaylene also has over thirty years experience as a cultural leader heading up a range of cultural divisions and working as a Cultural Ambassador for the Mayor of London (2016-20). She writes and broadcasts, creating radio documentaries  for BBC Radio 4 including Transcendence How Can I Feel Art Again, and hosts the Serpentine podcast series  Reworlding  and Intimacies that explore how to transform our relationship with the world, each other and ourselves.