Archive for the ‘Cambridgeshire’ Category
Simon Bridge
Art forms: Shakespeare and Drama workshops and lectures for all ages.
Summary: Shakespeare and theatre workshops for schools, teachers, young people and adults. Interactive lectures and talks on Shakespeare for A-level and adults.
Locations: Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire
Experience: I have been a professional actor for more than a quarter of a century and since 1993 I have been bringing Shakespeare and other aspects of theatre to schools, adult education, youth theatre and community groups using practical workshops and lively interactive lectures.
Qualifications: Diploma, Drama Studio London
Enhanced CRB check
Projects: I have worked with numerous theatres throughout the UK including a long association with the education department at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. I have led education projects for organisations including the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Watermill Theatre Newbury, the British American Drama Academy, Proteus Theatre Company, Hastings Festival and the Bremer Shakespeare Company in Germany. I work regularly with schools throughout the region and recently led a series of drama-games workshops for Suffolk Young Carers.
Groups worked with: Schools – Key Stages 2, 3, 4 and A-level. Undergraduates. Youth theatre and amateur dramatic groups. Drama Students. Community groups. Adult education.
Contact details:
Arts Reverie, Ahmedabad India – Exhibition ‘Design for Living’, Create an installation and curate an exhibition of work created by young people from Ahmedabad and Oldham.
Colchester Museum Service – Artist on project to celebrate the centenary of the Colchester Pageant of 1909. Create installation for exhibition in the Holly Trees Museum and devise and run series of workshops for youth groups.
Firstsite, Colchester – Artist on community project Art Stop: Bus Stop. To devise and run art sessions for children and parents/carers on the firstsite bus at locations around the region.
Pits Wood, Copford, Essex – Artists in the Woods. Lead artist on project to celebrate 25th anniversary of woods being managed by the Pits Wood Trust. Create installations in the wood. Devise and run workshops for school and local groups.
Essex County Council. ‘Essex Eye’ Installation, County Hall, Chelmsford - ‘A grove of magical trees suspended with hundreds of images of eyes painted on postcards by Essex school pupils and members of the public.
‘Biddenham International School & Specialist Sports College, Bedford -‘What is the best environment for learning project?’ Experiments in learning spaces, including changing spaces & changing location to help determine the best environment for learning.
John Bunyan Primary School & Infants, Braintree – ‘Beat Box Sound Cube’. Musical installation designed in conjunction with Year 2.
Folkworks,The Sage, Newcastle – Wassail National Tour. Design Set & Costume.
Creative Partnerships Haven Gateway - Creative Practitioner, (from 2006).
Louise Maclaren
Art forms: Visual Artist, Mixed Media and Printing, Photography and Digital. Art Tutor, Art workshops.
Summary: Mixed Media Art Workshops, Print Workshops, any Art/Craft based workshop, site specific , themed or otherwise, tailored to suit the needs of the specific group.
Consultations are offered before the Event if required.
Practicing Visual artist who offers portraits and illustration by commission, I also hold an Open Studio most years in May and display my work based on Printing, Watercolour/pen& ink work and prints made using reused polystyrene as a block printing Method on recycled paper.
Locations: Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and London
Experience: I have had 12 years experience in the Field of delivering Art Workshops to different groups of people (often Socially excluded).
I am also a practicing Artist and believe in a Holistic approach: empowering students to express themselves creatively.
I was an Antique Restorer specializing in carving and gilding for 10 years before but also did portrait commissions and design work until I felt that I wanted to use my work to help people somehow.
Qualifications: 7 GCSE’s including a grade ‘A’ in Art. Three ‘A’ Levels: French, History of Art and grade ‘A’ in Art.
I passed my pre-Degree in Art and design at Worthing Art College in 1984 and was accepted at Trent Polytechnic to do a degree in Theatre Design but took up a placement as an apprentice restorer instead.
I went to West Dean College, in Sussex on picture frame restoration course in 1984. Then in 1992 I returned to West Dean College to do a course on 18th Century wood carving.
In July 2005 I obtained an ‘O C N’ of three credits in level 2 in Business Skills with ‘Weetu’ organization. In October 2005 I was accepted a place on ‘Fusions’ a unique training course at the time, in developing arts practice in health or social care settings and participatory related art’s work until February 2006. This was delivered by creative Arts East & Theatre resource at the UEA.
In 2009 I obtained a pass in a level 2 award for health and safety at work.
Groups worked with: Isolated and vulnerable groups of people, learning and physical disabilities, older people, people with mental health issues, children who are young carers, younger children and young people of different nationalities.
Projects: 1991 – 2009 I delivered Art workshops on a freelance basis with learning disabilities at Break Charity in their outreach groups.
In 2007 amongst other portraits I was commission a portrait by the Coke family of Holkham Hall, Norfolk.
I have work put on Norfolk’s Heritage Explorer website (sheep @ Godwick; http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/ – click on explore more, then art & archaeology, find the letter T and click, it will list my name & Godwick, click it and the work comes up )
NHER was a project created to publish Norfolk’s Historic Environment record on the internet. Art was used to show some of the important Archaeological sites.
I also became a regular Art tutor at a drop in centre at ‘First focus’, Fakenham, Norfolk and was there until 2009, we explored all aspects of art. Later I was to Run an Art workshop through ‘Salthouse Exhibition’07’ (North Norfolk Exhibition project) I themed it around ‘identity’ designed for students in care situations who often felt a loss of the personal in their situations. My aim was to explore this creatively starting with our hands, signatures & monograms.
In October 2008 I and a colleague Nikki Mcdonagh were chosen to run workshops entitled ‘representing others’. This was an art and drama based workshop for secondary school pupils encouraging them to break down barriers in our society and be more accepting of differences in people culturally and otherwise; organized by South Norfolk District council.
In the Spring of 2009 I exhibited at The Troika 7 small art Exhibition , Dragon Hall, Norwich, and have been exhibiting at various venues in Norfolk since then,
In the summer of 2009, I worked with children who were carers from Kings Lynn’s Willows Family support Centre for a project run by Action for children’s Art Matters, producing a mixed Media Mural based on the Maharajas’ procession, the work was exhibited at the V&A in London alongside The Maharaja: The splendour of India’s courts Exhibition that Autumn. It was a real joy to see their faces when they saw their work on display in such a wonderful venue.
I took part in the Norfolk and Norwich Festivals’ Open Studio 10 and exhibited at the Forum and Wells-next-the-sea.
I shall be opening my studio for NNF most years (see my website for details).
In 2010 I did two art workshops for clients and carers for NNEP; ‘Salthouse 10’ based on a printing method reusing polystyrene as a block print, an accessible method for different types of students whilst trying to put the question about why; despite it’s pet mark 6 logo for recycling this material is not more widely recycled?
I have more recently been helping run art workshops in Melton Constable for YESU a Sherringham based charity whom provide support for vulnerable groups of people.Groups worked with: Isolated and vulnerable groups of people, learning and physical disabilities, older people, people with mental health issues, children who are young carers, younger children and young people of different nationalities.
Contact details:
Louise.maclaren@btinternet.com
www.louise-maclaren-artist.weebly.com
‘Boxing hares in red Gold and Green
‘Some things are meant to be’
‘No stone unturned’
Posted in Art Tutor, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Children, Community Groups, East Anglia, Essex, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, London, Mixed Media, Norfolk, Older People, People with Learning Disabilities, People with Physical Disabilities, Photography, Printing, Suffolk, Visual Arts, Young Carers, Young people
Footprints Theatre Company
Art Forms: A site specific Theatre Company working in an interdisciplinary form which combines all art forms in ways that engage the audience and participants to interact with the place in which they are either watching the performance or participating in the workshop.
Summary: Our motto – ‘Any Place is a Stage’
Our aim is to engage in the issue of environment, place and identity using the medium of theatre to find ways to articulate and animate the space.
Our work concentrates on developing an awareness of what is around us and our reaction to it and one another.
What do we do: We provided performances in chosen spaces on commission, and we provide interdisciplinary arts workshops for the community in a chosen space, these workshops can be single days exploring the space or can build over a period of time to a performance in that space with the community.
Our work has included: A bar in Chelmsford, several churchyards and churches, schools spaces, the centre of Colchester, Slack Space shop window and a library.
Locations: Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Camridgeshire.
Qualifications: The artistic director of the company has a Bachelor of Education Honours and a Master of Arts in Applied Theatre. All company members have enhanced CRB checks and the company has liability insurance.
Projects:
‘Have You got What I am Looking For?’ A performance at the Ancient Lights in Chelmsford. An interactive performance where the audience were never quite sure whether they were meant to be watching or participating.
Noak Hill – A workshop with Essex Wildlife Trust and families living in Havering. The families explored the wildlife site of Noak Hill and created personal responses to it.
All Saints Church. Little Cornard. Sudbury – A workshop for year Eleven drama students who explored the church and churchyard and produced promenade drama performances using the natural environment.
‘Window Shopping’ – Slack Space, Colchester. A performance project which sought to get passers by to stop and watch and then enter the premises.
‘Christmas Reflections’ – Lion Walk, Colchester. A performance project at Christmas which encouraged busy shoppers to stop and reflect on the Christmas spirit in an entertaining way.
Groups worked with: Footprints has worked with primary and secondary schools in Essex and Suffolk, Slack Space, Essex Wildlife Trust and the Lion Walk church community.
Contact details:
Artistic Director: Miss Paula Baker
07522576140
www.footprintstheatrecompany.co.uk
Joanna Scott
Art forms: Visual Artist
Summary: With a background in commercial illustation and mural painting, Joanna extended her work seven years ago to participatory arts. Working on projects ranging from recycled art and lanterns to book cover illustration, site specific installation and heritage work.
Locations: Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, North London, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, North Hamptonshire, Leicestershire, Sussex, South West England.
Experience: Highly skilled practitioner with seven years experience of running meaningful workshops and celebratory events with many varied groups.
Qualifications: A level art, Btec in Spatial design, Artists in Education short course successfully completed with Hertfordshire University covering evaluation and report writing. Working towards a Diploma in counselling as an addition to community arts practice
Projects:
Appledore Visual Arts Festival lantern making
Echo site specific intervention with SPID Theatre Company in London
2012 recycled lantern project with London Borough of Brent
Participatory installation with the Woodland Trust
Set and scenic with special needs adults Hemel Hempstead Old Town Hall
Curriculum based workshops with The Hat Factory Luton
Workshops in comic book drawing, mask making, personal maps, suncatchers,card making, puppets, watercolour and acrylic painting
Willow weaving with the former Arts Education Team at Hemel Old Town Hall
Groups worked with: Groups ranging from schools, to the homeless, children in care, elders, ethnic minorities, adults and young people with learning disabilities, people recovering from stroke and illness, recovering addicts and young mums.
Contact details:
07957 932476
St Albans, Hertfordshire.
Posted in Adults with Learning Disablities, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Children, Children in Care, Essex, Ethnic Minorities, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, North Hamptonshire, North London, Older People, People with Learning Disabilities, South West England, Suffolk, Sussex, Visual Arts, Vulnerable Groups of People, Young people
Keith Botilier
Art form: Photography, Visual Arts, Film / Video, New Technology, Crafts.
Summary: My work consists, of oil, Acrylics, water colour, Photography and Digital images. Landscapes, still life and a mixture activities. I also build websites if asked.
Locations: Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire.
Experience: Experienced
Qualifications: I trained as a draughtsman in engineering, I original got that due to my drawing ability.
Art course at Grays College, Essex, tutor – Jenny Geary.
I am a member of the WAF (World Art Foundation).
Contact details:
2 Abbeydale
Carlton Colville
Suffolk
NR33 8WJ
www.redbubble.com – search ‘keithbotilier’
Posted in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Crafts, Essex, Film, Hertfordshire, New Technology, Norfolk, Photography, Suffolk, Visual Arts
Hedley Griffin
Art forms: 2D drawn Animator, Cartoonist.
Summary: Animation workshops, cartoon drawing, script and story writing.
Locations: Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire.
Experience: 30 years animation director for BBC and Channel 4 Schools television. Self-publish, write and illustrate my own children’s safety books, www.DangerSpot.co.uk
Qualifications: Degree in Art and Design 1974.
Projects: Vital Communities in Cambridgeshire, hundreds of films for television, many, many cartoon drawing, animation and literacy workshops for local primary schools and community projects.
Groups of people worked with: People with learning disabilities, primary school children, teenagers, teenagers with eating disorders, older people in nursing home.
Contact details:
01986 798613
PO BOX 274,
Woodbridge,
Suffolk,
IP13 WX
Sarah Straw
Sunshine
Sawston Silent Movie
Nicola Marray-Woods
Art forms: Visual Artist
Summary: I specialise in community and school art projects including murals, ceramics, drawing, mixed media, environmental works and school ground design. I work with all ages and levels of experience from nursery, primary and secondary aged children through to family groups and adults of all ages and abilities. I aim to facilitate the work of others so that the process is satisfying and meaningful whilst ensuring that their creativity is retained in the final high quality work. I enjoy the challenge of working with new materials and groups. I also provide training in school ground development through my role as an accredited trainer for the school grounds charity Learning Through Landscapes (LTL).
Locations: Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, South Lincolnshire
Experience: Since 2000 I have been working in the East of England on a wide range of workshops, projects and artist in residence programmes. Clients have included over 40 schools and children’s centres, district and county councils and local and national charities. As an accredited trainer for LTL I have delivered training and facilitation on national school ground development programmes. I have project managed and led a range of large projects including an award winning school garden in King’s Lynn and since 2009 a Heritage Lottery Funded community project for the Woodland Trust.
Qualifications: June 2004 Learning Through Landscapes Accredited trainer
June 1995 University of Surrey BA (Hons) Art in a Community Context with Educational Studies – First class honours.
Projects:
Woodland Trust (Jan 09 – Dec 2010) Reffley Wood Projects: a Heritage Lottery Funded project running art & maintenance events in Reffley Wood and WREN funded informal play sessions in wood with 5 primary schools
Cambridgeshire Library Service (Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network)(2005 – 2008) Working with four primary schools, a special school, a youth group and 6 local community groups using local history images to create new art works with children.
Forest Heath District Council (2006) Mural at Brandon Railway Station
Tilbury Power Station (2006). Interpretation board at environmental centre
Howard Junior School, Magical Sensory Garden – Project manager & artist-in-residence (2001-04) Creating multi-sensory quiet & creative award winning garden which features in DfES publication and a 25m mural painting for school playground
Forward & Futures ‘800 years of King’s Lynn’ mural (2004) Research, design & painting a 112m2 mural for a town centre location with a local charity.
Text Collector II –Artist-in Residence - A Year of the Artist, EAB and European funded community arts project (2000) based in Downham Market, Norfolk. Text (poems, stories etc.) were used to inspire art work (collage, painting, film, public art etc) made with and by local people. This culminated in an exhibition.
This is a selection from the last ten years. More examples are available.
Groups with: Children and young people (2 -18), families, adults, people with learning disabilities, older people (including those with dementia), teachers and other professionals.
Contact details:
0771 256 7479
15 South Everard St,
King’s Lynn,
Norfolk
PE30 5HJ
Laura Watson
Art forms: Scriptwriter/Dramatist
Summary: Freelance Scriptwriter who runs playwriting projects for children, teenagers and adults.
Locations: Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire
Experience: I am a freelance scriptwriter. I have written several episodes of EastEnders, an episode of Casualty, an Afternoon Play for Radio 4 (Nightcap) and a play for my local youth theatre in Newmarket, Suffolk (Angel In The Park).
Before going freelance I worked for BBC Radio Drama, Laura Cecil Literary Agency and as a Script Editor and Story Editor for EastEnders.
I also have extensive experience in running creative writing classes and projects for children, teenagers and adults.
Qualifications: Post-grad Certificate- Scriptwriting & Literary Editing, Sheffield Hallam
BA (Hons) Writing, Middlesex University:Classification 2.1.
A Levels, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, 2 A’s and a C
10 GCSE’S, Soham Village College, Ely, Cambs, 5 Grade A’s and 5 Grade B’s
Projects:
Writer in Residence @ St. Felix Middle School, Suffolk, Sept 2009- July 2010: I work with a different group of students each term on a creative project. Past projects include the plays ‘Danger In The Darkness’, about a school trip that goes wrong and ‘The Burning Truth’ about two runaway children.
Scriptwriting for Adults, Jan 2009-ongoing: I run a ten week evening class on the basic craft of scriptwriting.
Creative Writing Workshops, LACESS, Jan- May 2010: Looked After Children’s Educational Support Services are funding me to run workshops in various schools attended by Looked After Children. I also ran a Create A Play Day in February half-term for fifteen children (aged 11-14) who are all in Foster Care.
School Workshops, The Children’s Discovery Centre, May 2009- Ongoing: I am a listed writer for The Children’s Discovery Centre who arrange for me to go into schools and run creative writing workshops.
Radio Project, Open Doors Course, Suffolk Artlink, Nov 2009: I worked with adults with learning difficulties to develop a short radio play. The play was on the theme of ‘Love’ and was recorded by Ipswich Community Radio.
Create A Play- Newmarket College, Suffolk, July 2009: Along with my brother who is a Primary School Teacher, I ran a three day summer holiday workshop for 8-12 year olds. The theme was Magic and Fantasy. We worked with the children to develop their own short plays, which they then performed to their parents at the end of the last day.
Writers Residency for Action For Children, Feb-May 2009: I worked with twelve Young Carers (aged 7-11) over a three month period of weekly meetings. We created a modern-day fairytale ‘A Science Project Goes Wrong’ which was then performed by the children to their families and key workers.
Scriptwriting/Drama Project @ Red Balloon, Sept- Nov 2008: I ran a series of workshops at Red Balloon Learner Centre in Cambridge (for students that have left mainstream education due to bullying), working towards a one-act play that the students performed at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.
Groups worked with: Children, Teenagers and Adults. More specific groups include Young Carers, adults with learning difficulties, children and teenagers in foster care and teenagers who have left mainstream education due to being bullied.
Contact details:
07974409228
Laura Watson – Making the Change
Maryjane Edgar
Art Forms: Visual Arts, Site Specific Dance, Movement & Physical Theatre, Sound /Sound-scape, Digital Photography, Drama, Puppet making, Mask making, Storytelling with Multicultural Instruments
Summary: Specialise in workshops for Schools, Communities, Festivals and Parties.
Locations: Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Kent
Experience: Very Experienced
Qualifications: M.A. Degree in Digital Practices.
Digital sound recording, and Sound-scape over last 10 years
Diploma in Swedish massage Therapy
Diploma in Aromatherapy massage Therapy
Multi-disciplinary Art practising for 20 years
Projects: A few examples : Environmental/ Recycling/Performance
The ‘Green Man’ Tour… 6 performances in Norfolk, using research, drama, engineered sound, singing bowls, flute, drums and African harp. The performance was given using masks made from Silver Birch, Oak, Hawthorn, Ivy, Willow and Rowan. Digital Sound-scape and recordings of ‘The Ancient Ones’ were created for atmosphere.
‘Slim Your Bin’, a project to promote recycling in South Norfolk, encouraging hoteliers to re-use… After playing the didjeridoo in a wheelie bin, and covered from head to toe in recyclable objects, such as plastic spoons, wrappers, packaging, film cases etc, I then jumped out reciting a ‘recycling’ poem and then gave a demonstration/ workshop of how it is possible to create a work of Art re-using broken plates to make mosaics.
A world conservation project, ‘Hotstuff’ was developed, to make children aware about sustainable energy and recycling. The amount of energy we use in this country was measured in footprints, which each child at Bowthorpe school in Norwich decorated with objects they might have otherwise thrown away. They also made an object out of clay and had to place it into a giant ball ‘world’ so they saw their piece being ‘recycled’. Music, story, movement and songs, were performed about the elements to finish.
Forest Stories at Poringland – Dressed up as the green woman, made a bender house from willow and bamboo, and told ‘green’ stories to young children.
Whitlingham Nature Reserve – Storytelling workshop for all volunteers, encouraging adults of all ages to go out of their comfort zone, using the voice, drama and physical technique.
Drama Collaboration with “Open Doors Company,” where the clues were acted out to complete a cross word drama puzzle.
Groups Worked with: With children of all key stages and people of all ages, in Schools, libraries, community centers, festivals and private homes etc.
Contact details:
avoiceofmoon@yahoo.co.uk
