Gabrielle Lobb is a co-founder and Director of Polygon Arts. She has extensive experience as an educator and in developing and managing community arts projects. Her work focuses on how to discover personal resonance and meaningful connections with other people, experiences, faiths or cultures and on how, in so doing, we are led both to action and to seek social change.
Gabrielle gained her MA in Applied Theatre from Central School of Speech and Drama during which she developed her interest in the debate surrounding the concept and teaching of Global Citizenship. She graduated from the Fellowship in Holocaust Education at the Imperial War Museum, through which she developed arts-based Holocaust Education with young people excluded from mainstream schools. In a freelance capacity Gabrielle is a Creative Educator at the British Library working with visitors to the Library’s exhibitions. She has been commissioned to write many education resources, as well as Polygon Arts, clients have included iceandfire, DASH Arts, Border Crossings, The Red Room, JCore and World ORT.