Belis Abyss…

(or Daisy Fairclough)

I began as an actress, working in film, TV, and theatre from a young age. I trained at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and later became part of the National Youth Theatre REP Company, I spent my early career in the West End, on screen and in mainstream British theatre, before realising that world wasn’t where my spirit lived.

I left the industry in 2020 and turned towards the edges — to clown, to street theatre, performance art, squats and abandoned spaces, seeking the unpredictable, and unmeasurable. Since then, I’ve worked with numerous wonderful theatre companies, performed across UK and European festivals, and developed projects with support from Arts Council England, Jerwood Arts, and 101 Outdoor Arts.

I just finished two years study at Ecole Jacque Lecoq (2023-2025) and finished a short run of a new WIP, titled Unlearning Mastery, a one woman clown show based on the radicalisation of young white working class boys, at The Vault Edinburgh Fringe. This work is ongoing.

My main creative project however is Holy Toys, a devised theatre and art company I co-founded with Andrey Soldatkin and Omer Faruk, fellow Lecoq artists, we are currently researching our first devised piece together, which we hope to tour in 2027. I’m also a member of FOULEFOULEFOULE, an Avignon-based ensemble committed to collective, physical creation.

Alongside theatre, I continue my musical work, as part of Etiome, an ongoing experimental noise project with Martin Ray.

Between these worlds, my work circles around transformation, ritual, and play — trying to find the human pulse beneath the chaos of performance and sound.

Through all this magik has permeated, because of magik all this has existed. It remains my life anchor, and my only DEFINING QUALITY OF MY NON EXISTENT SELF, MAGICIAN, and avid practitioner of Chaos Magik.

Currently based between France (Avignon/Paris) and the UK (Nottingham/London).