Nikky grew up in Belfast and planned to move to London for a year. Her first job was a make-up artist at The Oval. Her second was at a gay fetish magazine. She fell in love with Lambeth instantly and has lived in Brixton for 20 years. She swapped her make-up kit for South London's buildings, people and places. A writer, she has written cookbooks around the food of South London and was a co-founder of the Brixton Blog and Bugle. Being from the land of gay cake, she didn't come out as bisexual until about the time her peers back in Belfast started becoming grandmothers and suddenly all those London experiences made so much more sense.
Nikky runs the popular Instagram account @southlondontoday.
She is interested in how fashion, shops and housing introduce you to Lambeth past and present and Lambeth’s impacts on the rest of the world. She has been working with Incredible Edible Lambeth, Studio Voltaire and Open House Festival since becoming a Lambeth Tour Guide.
Guided walks are one of her favourite methods of community engagement and story telling. If it didn't give you a good anecdote or a good fact, then she'll turn that into one.
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