Create Change Studios (est 2009) is the work of Alicia Campbell - Creative Director/Producer, Artist & Activist.
Her work as a professional began as a childhood TV & Theatre performer in England; later she carved out a global multi disciplined career as a photographic & film artist, writer & creative producer, focusing particularly in recent years on marketing, motion design and her own work as multi-media artist.
Most of her campaign work is singlehandedly directed and produced.
Notable achievements include: awarded a national bursary in 2007 for innovative creative producing, being chosen as inaugural member of the International Curators Forum at Venice Biennale 2007, acting as Chair of Sustained Theatre Yorkshire for 2 years, being responsible for the development of the Dance Undergraduate Degree Course at LBU; being the strategic lead for the UK's first inclusive bodyweight movement in 2012; creating a hugely successful audience development music programme to launch We Out Here Festival, being selected for an Animation scholarship in 2020; raising over $500,000 as the Creative Director for #Give2Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo in 2022.
Of Jamaican/Irish descent she is a storyteller/change maker who refuses to be labelled. As a disabled, BIPOC woman, emphasis on inclusion and access has threaded throughout her life and career. She is currently creating pioneering work around chronic illness.
Her traumatic early adulthood have given her a breadth of lived experience and empathy in her work - leading to years of unpaid mentoring and interest in social justice & philanthropic work. A victim of child grooming & a forced marriage at 16 she was a mother of 3 by the age of 21, finally escaping a life extreme domestic violence & coercion 10 years later, she returning to finish her education and went on to excel, despite having to work and care for her children alone.
Alicia is available for consultancy, contracts, appearances and commissions.
“ Her C V, undoubtedly lists the remarkable spread of her cultural interventions and engagements – instructing as well as producing; exhibiting as well as discoursing in dance, film and video, theatre, festivals, museology. In all of this she has demonstrated the ability to take imaginative and challenging ideas from thought-inception, through the stages of developing compelling proposals, framing funding applications, eventually attracting sometimes substantial budgets, then managing delivery of outcomes, which might involve recruiting personnel, controlling budgets, brokering partnerships, and ‘eventing’ presentations of outcomes.”
Colin Prescod, ( Chair, Institute of Race Relations, Filmmaker, Mayor's Commission on African and Asian Heritage, on the Greater London Authority's Heritage Diversity Task Force, founding-Chair of The Drum Arts Centre and Chair of the ACAVA, London)
" Alicia has the capacity to bring together groups from a broad range of geographic locations within the UK and internationally through inspiring confidence in the relationship between artists, practitioners, arts organisations and institutions and being a proactive facilitator in her own right. By immersing herself in creative and developmental processes Alicia is able to contribute to projects and initiatives in a meaningful way and to readily identify follow-up opportunities that maximise the value of her work.”
Mark Hollander, Executive Producer Phoenix Dance Theatre, former Senior Relationship Manager Arts Council England