Luca Rutherford is our lead artist for Power & Cultural Democracy Commission, working across our three sites to bring conversations to the national stage. Based in Newcastle, an associate artist of ARC Stockton, Cambridge Junction and a movement practitioner with Frantic Assembly, Luca makes work that sparks conversations inside and outside of theatre spaces. Their artistic vision is to create work that is softly fierce and fiercely soft, and their practice revolves around the creation of community, holding space for conversation, humour and play. Luca makes work that is accessibly experimental in form and rooted in intersectional feminism; and in content explores, plays with, and questions the messy. It is for the adventurous, and also the shy.
Within the Power & Cultural Democracy Commission, Luca is holding the question ‘in a world that capitalises on us desensitising ourselves, how do we help each other resensitise?’. Exploring the question within the power of softness really excites us. Learn more about Luca and see some of her previous work here.
