Family and intergenerational work
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I regularly work with organisations who value and promote family and inter-generational engagement with arts and culture. The projects below
I regularly work with organisations who value and promote family and inter-generational engagement with arts and culture. The projects below
- British Library "make a Story" Family arts Day focused on evaluation
- Family Arts Days for Focal Point Gallery
- Open Estate
- Intergen (
- Family Arts Days for Focal Point Gallery
- Open Estate
- Intergen (
Family Art Day; Focal Point Gallery (June 2016)
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'The Peculiar People’ was an exhibition and event series tracing 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 therefore an appropriate response.
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To coincide with "The Peculiar People" exhibition, I collaborated with fellow artist Nastassja Simensky on sessions using 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.
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2014
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Family Day - Focal Point (Nov 2014)
Drawing on Hannah Sawtell’s exhibition ‘#STANDARDISER’, this workshop referencing the virtual world using physical materials, including repurposed toys for drawing and mapping. |
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2014 (continued)
In the Band for Focal Point Gallery's Family Arts Festival
Inspired by Jemima Stehli’s exhibition ‘Endears me, yet remains’, participants were transformed into members of our model band by mixing collage, digital and photographic techniques (with Alan Hockett).
Inspired by Jemima Stehli’s exhibition ‘Endears me, yet remains’, participants were transformed into members of our model band by mixing collage, digital and photographic techniques (with Alan Hockett).
2013
"Southend Sunshine" workshop for Focal Point Gallery's Family Arts Festival, mixing sun printing, relief printmaking and sound (with Stuart Bowditch and Lee Sullivan)
NDCS Family Fun Day: Hybrid animal puppet making. More images here
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2011
- Project 2013, Southend High School for Girls: Linked to their 'Project 2013' centenary I worked with students over three days 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
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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 Discover Arts activities for children with disabilities and their siblings
2008/09 Breaking the Rules MediaShed workshops with teenagers exploring youth subculture