Can art help you discover who you are?

Ed: ‘I spray the sky quickly. Eyes in front and behind. Looking for the police. Paint flies around and the things that haunt my mind come screaming out of my spray can onto the wall. See this, see this, see this. See how I empty myself onto a wall. Open skies painted above painted doorways and painted birds, trying to fly away, skimming over the bricks.’

Graffiti Moon is a classic coming-of-age story. Two young people trying to find their way to adulthood. Lucy, from an artistic family, struggles with her parents’ semi-divorce; her father lives in the garden shed. Ed, with a single working mother and a brother in the criminal circuit, has to work alongside school to support himself. But they have something in common. They find that making art gives them a space to express themselves and be something other than what first impressions suggest. They discover who they are and, in doing so, find each other.

Graffiti Moon is a week-long research presentation based on the book of the same name by Australian author Cath Crowley. It is an exploration of language and poetry, of image and transformation, of the world of young people searching for their own inner world.

It is preliminary research for a class performance to be realised in the 2026-2027 season.