Family and inter-generational work
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I regularly work with organisations who value and promote family and inter-generational engagement with arts and culture; this page shows some of these projects.
I regularly work with organisations who value and promote family and inter-generational engagement with arts and culture; this page shows some of these projects.
"Why Don’t You Make An Image Out Of Simple Data?" July 2020
As a response to COVID-19 lockdown, FPG commissioned a range of creatives to produce content inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?, each instalment suggesting a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen, using easily available resources. All the videos have subtitles.
For the eighth episode, I created ‘Why Don’t You Make An Image Out Of Simple Data?’. In the video, I looked at how we can record information from simple daily observations and turn them into something else, so that numbers (or snails!) can become colours, or letters can become patterns; how we can turn one way of looking at something into another way of seeing it. To follow this episode all you need is some paper and felt-tip pens (and maybe some snails). Video edited by Gabrielle Milanese.
As a response to COVID-19 lockdown, FPG commissioned a range of creatives to produce content inspired by the BBC Children’s television programme, Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?, each instalment suggesting a new activity to keep you entertained and stimulated away from the screen, using easily available resources. All the videos have subtitles.
For the eighth episode, I created ‘Why Don’t You Make An Image Out Of Simple Data?’. In the video, I looked at how we can record information from simple daily observations and turn them into something else, so that numbers (or snails!) can become colours, or letters can become patterns; how we can turn one way of looking at something into another way of seeing it. To follow this episode all you need is some paper and felt-tip pens (and maybe some snails). Video edited by Gabrielle Milanese.
2019 - British Library Deaf Family Day Information to follow
2020 event postponed until 2021
2020 event postponed until 2021
Family Art Days: Focal Point Gallery
I've been involved with a number of FPG's Family Days, which aim to engage families with the current exhibition, meaning no two days are alike.
2018
2016
"The Peculiar People" traced the history of ideological and social-political communal living experiments in Essex throughout the 20th Century to the present day. Building our own model Utopia was an appropriate response. Our sessions used drawing and cardboard construction to create an alternative vision of Southend - our own utopia. Bunnies, underground trains and ice cream shops proliferated amongst parks, houses, restaurants and schools.
2014
Images to Follow
2013 "Southend Sunshine" workshop for FPG's Family Arts Festival, mixing sun printing, relief printmaking and sound (with Stuart Bowditch and Lee Sullivan)
Intergen East:
Intergenerational project for Studio 3 Arts: details to follow
Intergenerational project for Studio 3 Arts: details to follow
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NDCS Family Fun Day: Hybrid animal puppet making. More images here
2011 - "Project 2013", Southend High School for Girls
Linked to their 'Project 2013' centenary I worked with students to develop and record interviews with old girls, culminating in the creation of the Locker Listening post, a prototype installation to stimulate project development. The installation contains extracts from the interviews focusing on social and attitudinal changes which paralleled uniform change.
Linked to their 'Project 2013' centenary I worked with students to develop and record interviews with old girls, culminating in the creation of the Locker Listening post, a prototype installation to stimulate project development. The installation contains extracts from the interviews focusing on social and attitudinal changes which paralleled uniform change.
- …Although it never happened to me it was rumoured that Mr Senger would measure the length of your skirt when you were kneeling down, it had to be so many inches above the ground or something…they had to be long enough, there were no short skirts...
- ...I used to have to wear a green and white stripy shirt, and the students next door used to call us 'Pacers', because you used to get these green and white stripy spearmint sweets that looked the same in those days...
Exhibited at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff and also at Essex Record Office
2010/11 Intergen Intergenerational photographic project across four London Boroughs, for Studio 3 Arts
2009 City of Culture Bid Participatory facilitation project for Metal’s consultation exercise
2009 Discover Arts activities for children with disabilities and their siblings
2008/09 Breaking the Rules MediaShed workshops with teenagers exploring youth subculture
2009 City of Culture Bid Participatory facilitation project for Metal’s consultation exercise
2009 Discover Arts activities for children with disabilities and their siblings
2008/09 Breaking the Rules MediaShed workshops with teenagers exploring youth subculture