Archive for the ‘Visual Arts’ Category
Michelle Ranson
Art forms: Fine Art, Painting.
Summary: Qualified Art Teacher 11-19, also qualified to work with SEN & students with learning difficulties. Would like to offer art workshops to all. Can be flexible with content. Specialise in Abstract Art, but can provide other disciplines on request.
Locations: Suffolk & North Essex
Experience: Exhibiting Artist since 1996, Qualified Teacher since 2006, Work Part Time teaching Art (therapy) and KS3 & 4 to students with Complex needs and behavioural issues in EOTAS.
Qualifications:
Postgraduate Diploma in Education; Merit (MA without dissertation)
PGCE Secondary in Art and Design
BA HONS Art and Design, specialising in Fine Art
NVQ LEVEL 3 Retail Management
NVQ LEVEL 2 Modern Apprenticeship in Retail
BTEC NATIONAL DIPLOMA Foundation Studies in Art and Design
A LEVEL Art and Design
A LEVEL RE
A LEVEL English Literature
GCSE’s 9 A*-C’s including Mathematics, Science and English
NATIONAL CERTIFICATE Information Technology
Projects:
June 2012: Suffolk Open Studios
Jan 2005: Suffolk Age Concern; Mural of spring scene and Spring Craft Workshop.
Dec 2004: Sixth Form Winter Wonderland Workshop, St Peters Church Community Project.
Groups worked with: 11-19 year olds, OAP, SEN, Learning difficulties, College Students.
Contact details:
07812068489
01787 379442
14 Springfield Road
Sudbury
Suffolk
CO10 1PH
Emily Campbell
Art forms: Visual artist, community artist, public artist, designer, illustration
Summary: About Emily Campbell’s practice:
Through the use of photography my practice seeks to create a world that on the one hand is real and on the other – imaginary. Using digital imaging, I effectively ‘paint with photographs’. Each image is made up of many smaller photographs enabling me to create surreal and magical scenarios.
The work I create for Public Commissions seeks to create an uplifting yet calming environment. Often working with a creative writer in the community, I visualise the poetic texts created about the local area. Large surreal vistas are installed as light boxes or printed onto Perspex, allowing the visitor views of their locality possibly only before seen in their dreams.
Locations: National
Experience: I have many years experience working in the Public Realm. All my work starts with workshops in the community, which inspire the final artworks. Recent projects include, a series of light boxes for Fulbourn Hospital, Wolverhampton Kings High School and Edinburgh Sick Kids Hospital. Please email me for a full CV.
Qualifications:
1991 – 1992 MA Alternative Media - Chelsea School of Art, London.
1988 – 1991 B.A Hons (1st Class), Fine Art - Camberwell School of Art, London.
1987 – 1988 Art Foundation - Norwich School of Art.
Projects: Some Recent Public Art Commissions
2012
- Cambridge and Peterborough Mental Health NHS – Created a series of Light boxes for refurbished Dementia Ward.
- Edinburgh Sick Kids Hospital – Working with staff and patients to created 2 large light boxes for the entrance to the Hospital
2011
- University of North Staffordshire Lead artist for new build Children’s Ward’s.
- BSF project Dandelion Public Art Commission for Kings School Wolverhampton.
- Blackburn New NHS Build – Major glazing commission for front of new Health Centre.
Groups worked with: Older People, People with Mental Health Issues, Children, Young adults, Teenagers, Probation, Learning difficulties
Contact details:
07783796416
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Lisa Temple-Cox
Art forms: Visual artist, community engagement and public arts
Summary: Public and community engagement forms a large part of my practice, and I enable a range of art activities that includes painting (from individual work to large scale murals), assemblage using found objects, collage, and photo-transfer. My public arts commissions are usually informed by a community engagement process, and as well as public and private commissions, I undertake school residencies tailored to meet the needs of the curriculum and/or project theme in hand. I have worked with children and adults of all ages and abilities, and in institutions as diverse as schools, colleges, residential homes, museums and prisons. Projects range from one day drop-in workshops at fetes and fairs, Creative Partnerships school projects, artist residencies, and major public arts commissions. I have a clean driving licence, enhanced disclosure CRB, and public liability cover.
Locations: Will travel anywhere
Experience: Self-employed in the field of public and community arts since 1990
Qualifications: MA (distinction) Arts in a Social Context / Certificate in Education: Lifelong Learning Sector
Projects: Creative Conveniences,Colchester: Healthcare Histories, Peterborough City Hospital: Rowhedge Heritage mural: Monkwick Bunker project, Colchester: Journey to the Podium, Essex county Council 2010: Wickford Library Timeline: Farleigh Hospice Project, Chelmsford and Maldon: Riverside Living project, Halstead.
Groups worked with: Children of all ages, adults, people with learning and/or physical disabilities, older people, primary school from reception upwards, secondary school, higher education, museum visitors.
Contact details:
Studio 9,
Cuckoo Farm Studios,
Boxted Road,
Colchester,
CO4 5HH
07980 357418
www.flickr.com/photos/deepgreenart/collections/
Posted in Adults, Adults with Learning Disablities, Adults with Physical Disabilities, All Ages, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bury St.Edmunds, Cambridgeshire, Children, Children aged 4-11, Children aged 5-9 with Learning Disabilities and behavioural issues, Community Groups, Crafts, East Anglia, East Sussex, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Key Stage 1 Children, Key Stage 2 Children, Key Stage 3 children, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Norfolk, North London, Northamptonshire, Older People, Painter, People with Learning Disabilities, People with Physical Disabilities, Primary School art: painting, drawing, ceramics, textiles, printing, drama, dance, Primary School Children, Schools, Secondary School Children, South Lincolnshire, South West England, Suffolk, Sussex, Visual Arts, Vulnerable Groups of People, West Suffolk, West Sussex, Young people | Tags: Collage, Community Arts, Photo-transfer
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
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 London, Northamptonshire, 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
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:
nicola@nicolamw.co.uk
www.nicolamw.co.uk
0771 256 7479
Genista Dunham
Art Forms: Visual artist
Summary: I trained at the Slade School of Fine Art. In the latter stage finding a niche making experimental films and animations. I then started working for the artist Tacita Dean assisting in the post-production of her films. Through that time I volunteered in a homeless shelter, which then led into workshops with young offenders. Repositioning outside London, I returned to Suffolk to rediscover values of authentic localism and community.
I now teach Art & Design in a Suffolk prison. A challenging area. Working with people at risk of marginalisation by society brought about through complex problems and tangled legacies. Complied by the stigma attached to holding a criminal record, is the impact this then brings upon self perception of identity and perception of others. Through my work I witness an emergence in sensitivity, pride and motivation towards change.
We balance the requirements of professional teaching standards delivering National QCF accreditation with the roles of responsibility underlying any security/protection service. I encourage cross-platform multi media approaches, 2d and 3d with learning reference to artists and exploration into their interests. Though I teach graphic design interlacing between the digital mediums and the practical arts. .
Art provides a space for contemplation, reflection, distraction and fresh imagination through which it is possible to transcend the circumstances which have brought about their problems and incrementally bring about small changes to life and wider well-being. I consider myself fortunate in receiving daily reminders through others of the potential for restorative realisation through creative activity.
Locations: Suffolk
Experience: Qualified Teacher
Qualifications: Fine Art Hons Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
Projects: Free-Lance Teaching & Workshops Employment
Herba – Illustrations for publication -Cathedral Herb garden. July’09.
Artlink ‘Step-Up’ - Series of Art and Film animation workshops ‘Hotdogz’ in Ipswich with Moderate learning Difficulties & Physical Disabilities. Jan – March ’09.
Art Workshops through Social Services Community Education Drop-In-Centre (New Info Bar) for people with Learning Difficulties, BSE. Jan’06 – present
Supporting Contemporary Adolescence (SCA) – Art design work and digital photography workshops.
Junior Youth Inclusion Project (JYIP) long-term YOS programme based in Stowmarket – Art workshop management and input to project work e.g. anti bullying campaign
Women’s Refuge, BSE- art/craft based workshops.
Bury St.Edmunds Art Gallery - ‘Drawing in Motion’ Oct ’06 & ‘I Can’t Draw’ Feb’07. Using our bodies moving through the light of a projector to create life-scale animated drawings.
Art Link ‘Step-Up’ – Series of Art workshops In Ipswich with Moderate learning Difficulties & Physical Disabilities. June ’07.
Risbygate Arts- Animation workshops ½ term project using digital media software to create simple animations from raw collaged images developed through photo editing. October 06.
New Info Summer Project for young people with learning disabilities through Community Ed, Suffolk- Artistic input to workshop programme. Summer 06 & 07.
Age Concern – Digital image work on using various computer software. July- Nov ’07.
Film Technical Assistant to International artist, Tacita Dean. Since Dec 01- Present P/T. Production and post-production assistant eg. Colour grading, negative analysing, quality checking of the prints, general prepping and exhibition installations
Marian Goodman Gallery, NY- as Tacita’s film advisor to galleries pre-exhibition
Risbygate Arts is a Charity Limited Company – for community arts serving in Bury St Edmunds and surrounding villages. Oct’05 – Feb’08. www.risbygatearts.co.uk
Art & Theatre Workshops for children 6-13, with artist Gilly Seago, Bury St.Edmunds
City & Guilds 7407 Further Education Teacher Training- In progress
Qualified TEFL teacher public speaking and classroom management skills, lesson preparation
British Council. Amman Jordan. Two months summer course teaching English.
Structuring lesson plans, classroom exercises and executing lessons for intermediate and advanced levels. 1997.
Ashwell House School, London N1. Teaching English to European vacation Students. Summer 1998.
St.Matthews Housing – supported accommodation for isolated and vulnerable people, Bury St.Edmunds. I organise a weekly art group for residents from the three Bury houses from. Jan 2005.
St.Martins N The Crypt - Trafalgar Square Connection for the Homeless Art Group. Nov 2003.
Amnesty International – involved with art work for current campaigns, WOMAD festivals, demo days, designs for education art workshops with children for refugee families, Southbank art-making weekend activities.
Groups Worked with: People with Learning Difficulties, People with Physical Disabilities, Women’s Refuge groups, Young people, Children, isolated and vulnerable groups of people
Contact details:
art@genista.co.uk
www.genista.co.uk
Charlie Hull
Art Forms: Visual artist
Summary: General art – painting, clay work, collage, papier mache, 3D work, silk and fabric painting, general craft work. Provider / facilitator of art projects for adults across a wide age range and ability.
Locations: Bury St. Edmund’s area/ West Suffolk
Experience: 2000 – date
Working as part of multi disciplined team in end of life care / rehabilitation setting providing / facilitating art sessions, activities and projects.
2004 – date
Sessional work
Working in the community with young and older adults with learning disabilities.
Designing / facilitating art projects
1984 – date
Free lance stone carver
Work includes stonemasonry and stone carving, lettering, memorial work, sculpture and restoration: supplying designs, technical drawings, artwork, estimates and relevant paperwork. Private and public commissions
Qualifications: Certificate in Education: University of East Anglia 2007
City & Guilds Stonemasonry: 1978 – 1979
Foundation course in Art & Design at Cambridge College of Art & Design
2 years specialising in Fine Art: 1970 – 1972
Projects: Individual and group projects.
Projects and art activities are designed to accommodate individual needs and abilities: participants are supported and guided through the process enabling them to explore their own creativity, find expression through various artistic activities and communicate feelings and engage with each other in a safe, supportive and confidential environment.
Groups Worked with: Young adults and older people with learning disabilities.
People with life threatening illness and progressive degenerative disease
who may have visual, hearing and speech difficulties, mobility problems, cognitive impairment and social and emotional issues.
Children 5-9 years with learning difficulties and behavioral issues who are sometimes hard to engage.
Contact details:
hullow@waitrose.com
Tel: 01284 811949
