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Across my career, I’ve realised that “team” isn’t limited to the people on your payroll or within your studio walls. Team is anyone who helps you think more clearly, create more honestly, and stay anchored in what matters — and that absolutely includes the right clients.
Some of the most meaningful relationships I’ve had weren’t defined by scopes or titles, but by trust, curiosity, and a shared desire to make something worthwhile.
Clients who challenge you with integrity. Who listen. Who believe in the work enough to fight for it. Who become part of the creative rhythm rather than standing outside it.
Alongside them are the friends, collaborators, advisors, and quiet voices who steady the compass: the people you lean on for clarity, perspective, truth, and occasional tough love.
These aren’t “stakeholders”.
They’re not “resources”.
They’re the people who shape the work behind the work.
Who make the process feel less like labour and more like purpose.
That’s team.
And honestly, it has always felt more like family — not in sentimentality, but in the way trust, care, and conviction are shared.
I’ve been lucky to be surrounded by great people — clients included — who’ve made me better.
I want to acknowledge just a handful of the people — specifically over the last decade, i'll delve further at a later date — who’ve helped me in some way (large or small) steer my course with clarity, courage, and a steadier compass...
Rachel Hulbert, Justin Day, Percy Dean, Dominic Marley, Kieran Sills, Lily Brown, Marcus Martell, Emma Pearson, Luis Jacobs, Sam Freeman, Lottie Warren, Jim Hills, Joe Dick, Matt Fraser, Laura Fairweather, Kian O'Keefe, Srdjan Jerinic, Caroline Daniel, Mike Mathieson, Christian Brecheis, Studio Drama, Rich Luxton, Ian Fitzpatrick, Chuck Mauro, Maru Fortuno, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Brian Lynn, Dylan Somerset, Michael Clarke, Keith Kelly, Tom Henshaw, Graham Dicken, Joe Connolly, Lauren Fitzsimmons, Becca Frankland, Nick McCormick, Katy Turner, Gary Burnand, Tom Entwistle, Hannah Woodhams, Greg Shapleigh, Eric Richter, Chris Law, Dan Newton, Michael Pao, Arendt van Deyk, Stuart Brooke, Nick Hussey, Gustavo Jaimes Lopez, Simon Mottram, Chris Quin, Marc Perry, Cliff Lewis, Phil Jones MBE, Rich Land, Tony Walden, Jeff Bowman, Simon Freeman, James Shaw, Rob Hare, Louisa St Pierre, Jack Arden Brown, James Ellis, Ben Davis, James Murray, Neil Hardcastle, ...and Aidan Rowe - my friend, the most beautiful of souls, gone far too soon x
Thank you!
JM
