Socially Engaged Work
As an artist educator I have over 18 years of experience in the creative sector, developing and delivering a wide range of workshops for a variety of differing ages and client groups, in education, healthcare and community settings.
I am passionate about the impact that engagement in the arts can have on wellbeing and I specialise in working with vulnerable and marginalised groups.
As an interdisciplinary artist I devise and deliver projects across a wide variety of art forms, from digital media (including AR/VR technologies), photography, video, installation, animation, through to sculpture, printmaking, felt making, mixed media collage and ceramics. I enjoy exploring creative digital technologies in a visual arts context and my participatory work frequently transforms analogue artwork into digital outputs.
My participatory work has led to my being shortlisted for the Mainframe Digital/Creative Impact Award 2019 and 2021. I have also delivered papers on my participatory work with children and young people at numerous conferences including The Cultural Institute, University of Leeds and The SEN Network conference at The National Gallery, London.
In my role as education curator at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, I programme, devise and deliver a diverse range of artist workshops for children and young people.
I have worked with numerous organisations across the country including QUAD, Sinfonia Viva, Junction Arts, Engage, The Lowry and Derby Theatre. I am also creative mentor for The Mighty Creatives, working one to one with care experienced young people to engage in cultural activities and develop their creative skills.
I am passionate about the impact that engagement in the arts can have on wellbeing and I specialise in working with vulnerable and marginalised groups.
As an interdisciplinary artist I devise and deliver projects across a wide variety of art forms, from digital media (including AR/VR technologies), photography, video, installation, animation, through to sculpture, printmaking, felt making, mixed media collage and ceramics. I enjoy exploring creative digital technologies in a visual arts context and my participatory work frequently transforms analogue artwork into digital outputs.
My participatory work has led to my being shortlisted for the Mainframe Digital/Creative Impact Award 2019 and 2021. I have also delivered papers on my participatory work with children and young people at numerous conferences including The Cultural Institute, University of Leeds and The SEN Network conference at The National Gallery, London.
In my role as education curator at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, I programme, devise and deliver a diverse range of artist workshops for children and young people.
I have worked with numerous organisations across the country including QUAD, Sinfonia Viva, Junction Arts, Engage, The Lowry and Derby Theatre. I am also creative mentor for The Mighty Creatives, working one to one with care experienced young people to engage in cultural activities and develop their creative skills.
Video
Music video co-created with young people KS 2-4. Photographic images were taken by young people during a museum trip. Young people then wrote and recorded a rap and had their eyes and mouths filmed singing their rap. This footage was edited onto the young people images to produce a 'music video' which played when a postcard showing one of the images was scanned.
Video
Music video co-created with young people KS 2-4. Photographic images were taken by young people during a museum trip. Young people then wrote and recorded a rap and had their eyes and mouths filmed singing their rap. This footage was edited onto the young people images to produce a 'music video' which played when a postcard showing one of the images was scanned.
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Augmented Reality
Following a series of stop motion workshops with KS2, using plasticine to explore plants and animals - imagery created by the young people was used to create a set of four postcards which, when scanned, played the young peoples animations.
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Augmented Reality
Working with KS3&4 young people produced ceramic books, which was then over layed with a 'story' created in augmented reality.
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Augmented Reality
Following a series of workshops where young people wrote a script with an actor, a series of drawing workshops were undertaken to create imagery to accompany the script. The young people were recorded performing the script and this audio, along with the young peoples imagery was used to create three large scale images that when scanned play the whole animated script.
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Augmented Reality
Outdoor nursery rhyme trail produced following a series of creative sessions with pre-schoolers. Ducks were placed along a mile long route. When scanned the ducks play an animation and nursery rhyme.
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Photographic Projection
Curated as part of Format International Photography Festival, this exhibition consisted of images taken by participants across a variety of workshops with differing groups including people experiencing mental health challenges; inpatients at Derby Royal Hospital Radbourne Unit; rough sleepers, over 50's and ESOL students.
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Photography
Images taken by young people using train models as props to consider 'ways of seeing'.
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Virtual Reality
VR Gallery produced to exhibit images produced by young people in a light drawing photographic workshop.
Virtual Reality
VR world co-created with KS2-4 autistic young people through 3d scanning created objects.
Stop Motion Animation
Using a variety of different media, I regularly work with young people to produce stop motion animation.
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Games Development
Guided workshops take young people through the steps of game development from narrative to design to produce their own online platform game.
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Arcade Machine
Working with KS2-4 autistic young people to produce their own characters and computer games. Games were brought together in an arcade machine and exhibited at various locations.
Minecraft
Using Minecraft as a creative tool I regularly host Minecraft workshops for young people of all ages both in person and online.
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Mural
Large scale mural co-created with KS4&5 on a primary school library container, taking inspiration from images produced by KS1&2.
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Silver Casting
Silver casting natural objects with KS4 young people to produce silver jewellery.
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Felting
I run a variety of felt workshops including needle felting and wet felting, often combining with conductive threads to incorporate creative digital technologies.
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Printing
I run a variety of printing workshops including mono-printing, screen printing, lino printing, collograph printing and embossing.
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