I’m one of a group of artists leading the Brave Art arts course for people with learning disabilities run by Suffolk Artlink. The programme has been reimagined around lockdown and COVID-19 guidelines.
Early in 2020, I was due to lead imaginative costume and textiles workshops with the students, however during lockdown the face-to-face groups were led as a specially-designed resource book with supporting Zoom meetings.
For the second year of the Brave Art course, from September 2020, the group are exploring ‘Utopia’. For the resource book, I have put together two workshops ideas – a nature photography guide called ‘Looking at the world around us’ and a textile banner-making guide called ‘Manifesto for a better world’.
I was selected from an open call of artists and creative practitioners across the UK to create online creative learning videos for Milton Keynes Arts Centre in Buckinghamshire.
I was commissioned to create two videos: Still-life Drawing and Anthotype Photography. The videos are part of a digital collection of workshops and resources for families and adults of all ages to take part in remotely.
I was originally commissioned by Making Waves Together Culture Schools programme to work with pupils and teaching staff at Northgate Primary School in Great Yarmouth. The project, which was an outdoor environmental art programme during Spring Term 2020, was stopped part way through the project due to COVID-19.
In light of these circumstances, I was commissioned to produce two remote creative learning packs for primary aged pupils in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and Lowestoft, Suffolk distributed through Making Waves Together and schools.
The creative learning packs have a range of activities for children to do at home with their families or on walks around the local community. They involved working with simple resources and things found around the home in imaginative ways.
Making Waves Together are a cultural partnership project linking Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and Lowestoft, Suffolk through their shared culture, heritage and assets. It’s made possible through the Great Place Scheme, delivered by Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic England.
As part of my on-going work as an Associate Artist/Tutor at SCVA, I was commissioned during the COVID-19 lockdown to create a resource for children aged 5-11 and their adults to create at home.
As an artist, I am interested in finding new perspectives. We might not be able to visit many places right now, but we can find new ways to look around our homes. I was inspired by objects in the Sainsbury Centre collections to make some viewfinders, masks and goggles. I started by choosing my favourite features from masks in the collections, such as the shape of the eye holes or how it made me feel when I looked at them.
You can take a look at the full Recycle the View resource on the SCVA Online Studio website, which also includes resources from other artists for all ages.
As part of Sainsbury Centre’s learning programme linked to the ‘Art Deco by the Sea‘ exhibition, I’ll be working with a group of art and photography students from East Coast College in Great Yarmouth.
The students will create studies of an Art Deco architecture site in Great Yarmouth to produce images for inclusion in the Sainsbury Centre exhibition (open from 9th February to 14th June 2020). The activities will ask students to look closer at the architecture through arts techniques such as photography and printmaking.
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