Stacy Makishi 

Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993.

 

Like a bonsai plant, Stacy is small but old, and has been making art and infecting folks with curiosity and creativity for over 40 years. A cross-fertilization of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. It is as complex as it is accessible, humorous as it is challenging, visual as it is literate.

 

Also a teacher, director and mentor in international demand, Stacy believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others in order to put more ‘aloha’ into the world.

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Made with a strong collaborative ethos, her solos have been presented in venues across the UK including Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, In Between Time (Bristol), TATE Modern, BUZZCUT (Glasgow), Traverse (Edinburgh) and internationally at BRUT:Vienna, Estonia Academy for Theatre and Dance, Mladi Levi (Slovenia), International Festival of the Black Sea (Turkey), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), and La Mama (New York).

 

She also directs socially engaged and participatory works, most recently Under the Covers, commissioned by Contact Manchester Young Company and the Wellcome Collection. 

 

Awards include ICA Attached Artist Award, a Millennium Fellowship Award, the Franklin Furnace Award, and the Live Art Development Agency Arthole Award. 

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With support from Arts Council England and partners, Stacy is currently developing a year-long participatory project, Walking Each Other Home, exploring where and how we gather, how ritual can heal and transform. and how we might build communities of connection: connection to ourselves, to each other, and to inspiration and mystery. Walking Each Other Home will shapeshift as it travels, with Stacy doing workshops, residencies and performances across the UK in 2025.