Map Your World, 2007 - present Gallery Workshops, Study Days and InSets- KS1-5, FE|HE, Community Groups The British Library
: Diverse sessions to explore maps as social documents that carry evidence to the preferences, choices and ideologies of their makers. Includes creative and critical activities to test diverse methods of map-making and examine their consequences for how we see the world and our position within it.
Developed and delivered in collaboration with artist Jean Campbell.
Teachers in Partnership (2010-2011) Continued Professional Development Course Tate Britain
: Delivery of 3-term professional development programme for artists, teachers and educators who are keen to explore opportunities for working with modern and contemporary art as resources for research, teaching and learning.
Medicine at the Movies, 2010 Collaboration, Participation Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London
: Facilitating senior participant's movie making on the theme of medicine. The resulting film - Encounters: 10 Words to John Hunter - premiered at Hunterian Museum, London and Thackray Museum, Leeds, March 2010, and on public display at the Hunterian Museum, 6 July - 11 September 2010. News: Project shortlisted for UK Jodi Awards 2010 More + View film online
The New Kew Illustrated Archive of Trees, 2009 Artist's Commission: Collaboration, Participation Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
: Collaboration with Kew's Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives, to develop a new archive object through research and public workshops as part of The Big Draw 2009. Archive accessioned into Collection, November 2009. News: Kew Workshops wins Trailblazer Drawing Inspiration Awards 2009 More
DOUBLE TROUBLE: DRAWING OURSELVES INTO SITE, 2009 Participatory Project TATE Modern
: 2-day photography, drawing and mapping project for young artists to explore how site may influence who we are, when and where. Developed in response to the work of artist Roni Horn in Roni Horn aka Roni Horn , Tate Modern 2009.
TWO, 2008 Moving Image Commission and Participatory Project TATE Modern and the BFI
: 7-week project on working collaboratively, from within the contexts of exhibition and archive, to consider the philosophical relationships between photography and film in relation to portraiture. More
CHARLESTON SUMMER SCHOOL: AN ALTERNATIVE GUIDE TO SITE, 2008 Collaboration, Participation, Workshops Charleston, an artist's home and garden, Lewes
: 5-day young people's summer school to explore how it is possible to collaboratively map a site according to own preferences and - by making this evident - inspire new experiences in others.
OTHER PAST WORKSHOPS AND PROJECTS (selection)
SOCIETY, STUDIO AND STREET
(2011) Participation, Collaboration National Portrait Gallery
: 3-day workshop for young people to create photographic portraits inspired by the style and approach of E.O. Hoppé. Culminating in a public screening at the Gallery. Co-led with photographer Gisela Torres.
3-D IDENTITY CREATION (2010) Participation, Collaboration National Portrait Gallery in partnership with Roundhouse
: 3-day workshop for young people to create a 3-D digital character in relation to their own identity and the portraits in the exhibition 'Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance'. Co-led with games designer Ethan Kennedy.
ANIMATION AS INTERPRETATION (2010) Interactive Talk, Workshop Tate Britain
: Practical workshop and interactive talk on animation as media and creative tool for interpretation. Delivered as part of Movement and Permanence: Tate Britain Learning Private View.
BEYOND THE FACE (2010) Participation, Collaboration National Portrait Gallery
: 3-day project for young people to explore the images in Irving Penn Portraits and create a series of personal portraits in response. Culminating in a public screening at the Gallery. Co-led with photographer Tom Wichelow.
FROM CHROMAKEY TO MTV (2010) Participation, Collaboration National Portrait Gallery
: Motivated by the 'Beatles to Bowie' exhibition, a Sunday Session workshop for young people to explore the processes behind 1960s to 1970s-style
pop videos and create their own video experiments using early special effects and hand made tools. Co-led with artist Howard Matthew.
BUILDING ON CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICES (2009) Continued Professional Development Course TATE Britain, London
: 2-day course for art teachers and educators to consider how current trends in contemporary art can be explored with students at KS4|KS5 level.
CRITICAL & CONTEXTUAL STUDIES:
FRANCIS BACON AND THE TURNER PRIZE (2008) Continued Professional Development Course TATE Britain, London
: Course for art teachers and educators to unravel the meaning of art works by placing them in a wider cultural context. Developed and delivered with Curator Helen Little.
DRAWING INTO SITE/SIGHT (2008) Commission, Collaboration, Participation The British Library and Campaign for Drawing
: Commissioned collaborative event to explore how site may be alternatively mapped and represented through the attributes, opinions and ideas of its staff, readers and visitors.
MEDIA, MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES AND MEANING (2008) Study day for KS5 art students TATE Britain, London
: Practical study day to investigate material use and meaning in modem and contemporary art for the development of students' individual work and practices.
CURATING PRACTICE (2007) Workshops and Exhibition
Commissioned by Studio Voltaire, London
: Participatory and contextual research project to identify links between the development of individual work, fine arts practices and contemporary society. For art students at Stockwell Park High, London.
ART AND LANGUAGE (2005, 2006, 2007) InSet for artists, art teachers and educators TATE Modern, London
: InSet|Study day to consider the connections between art and language; art and literacy, including language as art and interpretation through spoken, written and visual languages.
DEVELOPING A LOOKING LOG (2006, 2007) InSet for artists, art teachers and educators TATE Modern, London
: InSet|Study day to explore strategies for expanding the sketchbook into a discursive place for research into visual art practice, primarily but not exclusively, in the gallery context.
INSTALLING INTERACTION: ARE YOU AFRAID OF A GOOD TIME? (2007) Workshop and Installation TATE Modern, London
: 2-day workshop for Southwark art students to practically research installation art - and the use of audience participation and anticipation as strategy and material - in relation to Carsten Holler's installation: Test Site , Tate Modern, 2006|07.
GRAPHIC CHANGE (2005) Photographic Project, Workshops and Commission Shed 22, London
: Photographic project, workshops and mural commission for Stratford Advice Arcade. Delivered in collaboration with artist Ed Harper and Newham Young Carers.
CY TWOMBLEY: TALKS AND WORKSHOPS (2004) Gallery Workshops and Talks Serpentine Gallery, London
: Interactive gallery talks, discussions and drawing workshops in response to the exhibition 'Cy Twombley: 50 Years of Work on Paper'.
THE BOX: A PERSONAL APPROACH, 2000 Gallery Workshop and Event Milton Keynes Gallery
: Facilitation of mixed media workshop and conversation events for artists participating in the exhibition 'Women Beyond Borders'. Women Beyond Borders' website
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