Kate Ferguson

The Liminal Lady Performance 

‘The Liminal Lady’ is a singer-songwriter performance about how imagination can heal. The title is borrowed from Brian Froud’s book Good Faeries, Bad Faeries, and has come to represent a character that I created daydreaming…

The Fearless Women's Songwriting Group was set up by Lea Ray and Alex Lucy at Plymouth Music Collective, a local initiative who focus on making rehearsing and recording music accessible within the Plymouth community. The songwriting group consisted of a…

Inspired by Brian Froud’s enchanting book, Good Faeries, Bad Faeries, 'The Liminal Lady' is a character who originated in my childhood daydreams who embodies the space between imagination and reality. Over the years, this character has shifted, morphed, and even…

‘Seven’ is the seventh track from Taylor Swift's 2020 album Folklore. Written through the eyes of a seven year old child, ‘Seven’ alludes to escaping from the ties of domestic violence through imaginative play. What I found particularly touching…

‘Future Tripping’ is a response to eco-anxiety, and, in keeping with the theme of the performance, explores the role of imagination in. ‘Eco-anxiety’ is generally recognised as ‘our emotional response to the threat posed by the climate…

T.W. Although ‘Cocoon’ has a positive message, this song may feel triggering for people who have suffered domestic violence, or those who have had adverse childhood experiences. Please remember that you can leave to take a break at any point…

‘Where You Gonna Run?’ Is a response to the prevalent fear of the wrath of women and how this fear stems from the consistent wrongs done to women across all sections of society. The song explores the idea that women…

‘A Way to Live Now' was initially written for a commission for the Box during 2020 in which myself and four other artists were commissioned to write about a week in our lives during lockdown. Many of us remember the…

‘Turning Out of Time’ is a song about the misalignment between a person's dreams and plans versus the birth of those plans into the real world. Once the difficult work of healing has been done and we feel ready to…

Relationships with animals can sometimes feel easier than relationships with humans - anecdotally, this feels true for myself and others that I’ve spoken to. This might be because there is a certain simplicity to a relationship with animals that we…