Creative Learning - mixing traditional and digital techniques
- Bow Arts: Cross-school partnership focusing on SEN & digital engagement (details to follow)
- Children & the Arts workshop leader (Richmond Avenue Primary) for Focal Point Gallery
- Children & the Arts workshop leader (Richmond Avenue Primary) for Focal Point Gallery
2017
- Art/Science day & teachers CPD for Northwick Primary School, Canvey - images & text to follow
- Guest Artist, Open Arts: Creative wellbeing sessions for BAME participants with mental health referrals - images & text to follow.Open Arts
- Mixing old and new tech Teacher’s CPD session for ROH Bridge
- Guest Artist, Open Arts: Creative wellbeing sessions for BAME participants with mental health referrals - images & text to follow.Open Arts
- Mixing old and new tech Teacher’s CPD session for ROH Bridge
Harbinger Primary School (for Bow Arts Education)
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“A Map of the Isle of Dogs” - digital imagery on dibond, 119 x 168 cm 2016
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This project involved working with two Year 6 classes and teachers from Harbinger Primary exploring the history and identity of the Isle of Dogs. Using explorations built around different aspects of mapping; exploratory walks, drawing, cut-ups and collage, stories and poetry, the project gave students the opportunity contribute to a collective artwork leaving a visual legacy as they make the transition to secondary school.
“I have learnt and realised that there are small things on the Isle of Dogs that we see every day but we don't realise how special they actually are until we leave them”
The map incorporates layers – of history, children’s personal journeys, of contemporary life on the island, text and image. Now installed in the school's dining hall, it provides new pupils with an opportunity to explore their environment through someone else's experiences. The project was featured in the article The Art of the Island on the Bow Arts website.
“I have learnt and realised that there are small things on the Isle of Dogs that we see every day but we don't realise how special they actually are until we leave them”
The map incorporates layers – of history, children’s personal journeys, of contemporary life on the island, text and image. Now installed in the school's dining hall, it provides new pupils with an opportunity to explore their environment through someone else's experiences. The project was featured in the article The Art of the Island on the Bow Arts website.
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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2015
River Crouch Festival - work with Riverside School, Hullbridge, and Collingwood School, South Woodham Ferrers (April-July '15). See separate project page via link above.
2014
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QEOP Summer School
A partnership managed by Space Studios and the Legacy List.
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WYWH digital workshops for LibraryFest in West Berkshire; working with adults and young people we created our content using photography, video, collage, image manipulation software, and storytelling to create the history of the Theale Library Band - "the hardest working band in showbusiness", with the toughest (and most surreal) riders. Mixed with music and animated in Popcorn Maker, you can follow the band to find out more about it's members, outrageous demands, and the notorious stage-diving incident....(you can play from the file on the right or follow this link).
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"Dyspraxic Me" workshop
Held at Shape's Westfield Gallery during October, this workshop co-incided with Dyspraxia Awareness week. Members of the "Dyspraxic Me" support group created images relating to their experiences of dyspraxia, which can affect co-ordination, planning, and motor skills, amongst other impacts. The images below were selected by individuals to demonstrate how the most seemingly everyday of objects can become an obstacle requiring time and energy to negotiate, or which can support and liberate. |
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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). Get Creative with Photography: for NDCS at Sedgehill School. Lewisham |
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)
Get Creative: 3-day residential for NDCS Rochford Art Collector Series - workshops with Great Wakering Teen Cafe, creating the seventh artwork for the series - TrailR - using a mix of digital (GPS, scanning, photography) and traditional techniques (drawing, collage, tracing). Play Southend - Targeted workshops within the larger Play Southend project, developing a collective vision of Southend created by its communities, that can then be entered and played by people all over the world. Driving Inspiration - workshops for Creative Bucks project linking Paralympic sport, the arts, and diversity On the Line - The Lost Property Office, developed with Treetops School (see project page) |
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2012
Georingtones: Workshop element of the 'Sparks Will Fly...' commission, a digital treasure hunt based on the popular geocaching game. Caches are planted at three locations across Essex; as well as behaving as normal caches, inside Geocachers will find a code. This can be used to help play and create ring tones made up of sounds recorded as part of the project.
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Intergen East: Intergenerational project for Studio 3 Arts
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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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- Launchpad sound and Music day for deaf young people (Z!NC)
2010/11 Intergen Intergenerational photographic project across four London Boroughs, for Studio 3 Arts
2010/11 Intergen Intergenerational photographic project across four London Boroughs, for Studio 3 Arts
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2010
- Double Trouble film project, Grove Wood Primary (Creative Partnerships). Six week project with Stuart Bowditch to make a stop-motion animation and soundtrack with year 2 and 4 students at Grove Wood school in Rayleigh, Essex. You can see the full animation here - Artist of the Future ECC one-to-one mentoring project with young artist Emmie Hubbard. Read more here - Drawbots & Music Interactive toy & music workshop for RAD (with Ruth Montgomery) - Projection Mediabox funded project with deaf teenagers (Focal Point Gallery) |
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2009/10 Tillingham Borrowers, St Nicholas Primary, Tillingham (Creative Partnerships)
Design/construction project working with two classes (years 1 and 2/3) from October 09 to March 10. Drawing on the Mary Norton book 'The Borrowers', children explored the school outdoor environment using photography, design, camouflage, construction, and team working to look at their world from the perspective of tiny borrowers. The project also allowed staff to draw on concepts of recycling, communicating, reading and writing.
"I didn't know we were actually learning because it was so much fun."
"I didn't know we were actually learning because it was so much fun."