Iro

For the past few years, the call to live in a quiet, connected, rural community has been growing stronger and stronger within me. In 2022, I turned my back on the city and decided to explore the wilder side of life, living closer to the Earth and away from the constant business of city culture. For most of my adult life, I have been trying to build/find a community that resonates with who I am and my values; I started by creating a queer performance art collective in London, then I joined the vogue ballroom community followed by the Radical Faerie community. Each has given me a different sense of what community is and can be. I now feel ready to dive into Malwen and dedicate my day-to-day life to living gently on the land. 

I am passionate about herbal medicine and the magic of plants; my dream is to create a herbal apothecary for the community, with the plants I grow and forage on the land. I am a member of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and, through studying druidry and Celtic mythology, have been on a journey to reconnect to the lands of my home and decolonise my worldview. I am keen to bring a spiritual and magical perspective to any community I am part of and, by doing that, to enrich the threads of the spirituality which is indigenous to these isles.

I am a dancer, poet and musician. I am also a tattoo artist, working with a machine-free practice that combines my personal artistry with my knowledge of ceremony and ritual to create unique, powerful talismans in ink and flesh.

I am skilled at organising, creating structures and processes, administration and facilitation.

Iro (they/them)