Creative Learning - mixing traditional and digital techniques
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In my own practice I often use discarded or outdated technologies, and also mix low and hi-tech in creative learning with positive outcomes. Physical creative processes can enhance understanding of digital – and vice-versa. For example, digital manipulation concepts like cutting and pasting can be linked to physical processes like collage and photomontage, developing confidence and understanding as well as tactile knowledge.
The projects below show some examples of these approaches between 2016 and 2019.
The projects below show some examples of these approaches between 2016 and 2019.
Focal Point Gallery Silver Arts Award group 2019
For their Unit 2 Leadership project, the group created a short film, mixing model making, traditional stop-motion animation, and contemporary digital filming and editing techniques.
The resultant film was shown on The Forum's Big Screen for one week during February/ March 2019. Mixing approaches allowed the group to draw on individual skills and to develop collective approaches, rather than "one size fits all", as well as giving them an opportunity to develop learning in new areas.
..(the group) have demonstrated an effective and impressive use of clay animation, stop-motion, modelling, sound and text. In using these, you have brought them together to form your narrative to form a simple yet light-hearted and accessible film for an extended audience in Elmer Square. Big Screen Co-ordinator James Ravinet
You can view the full film (which runs for 3 minutes) here
The resultant film was shown on The Forum's Big Screen for one week during February/ March 2019. Mixing approaches allowed the group to draw on individual skills and to develop collective approaches, rather than "one size fits all", as well as giving them an opportunity to develop learning in new areas.
..(the group) have demonstrated an effective and impressive use of clay animation, stop-motion, modelling, sound and text. In using these, you have brought them together to form your narrative to form a simple yet light-hearted and accessible film for an extended audience in Elmer Square. Big Screen Co-ordinator James Ravinet
You can view the full film (which runs for 3 minutes) here
Bow Arts cross-school partnerships - 2018
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This project developed two cross-school partnerships focusing on SEND and digital engagement. Each involved one mainstream school and one specialist SEND school, working to design and make light tools (using simple electronics and up-cycled materials), and to collaborate on creating the light painting (using digital techniques). It involved young people with a range of physical and learning access requirements, involving Key Stage 2 and 3 students.
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Focal Point Gallery/Richmond Avenue School - Start
Start is a UK-wide programme that aims to reach children who are missing out on a creative and cultural education. Focal Point Gallery developed a Start-funded programme running from 2017-2020 for children aged 8-11. Working with artist Rachel McGivern and Richmond school, based in Shoebury, we developed a series of gallery based and in-school workshops responding to the current exhibitions and mixing digital and analogue techniques to give the children access to and understanding of creative learning.
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.
- Mixing old and new tech : Teacher’s CPD session for ROH Bridge - images & text to follow
- Guest Artist, Open Arts: Creative wellbeing sessions for BAME participants with mental health referrals - images & text to follow.
- Mixing old and new tech : Teacher’s CPD session for ROH Bridge - images & text to follow
2016 - 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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Working with two Year 6 classes and teachers from Harbinger Primary this project explored the history and identity of the Isle of Dogs. Explorations built around different aspects of mapping - 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)
'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. In this collaboration with artist Nastassja Simensky we 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. The build process was recorded as a time-lapse animation.
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