Art forms: Murals, Mosaics, Mosaic Sculptures

Summary: London based artist specialising in large scale mural and mosaic artworks, including mosaic sculptures.

Locations: Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Essex, UK, USA

Experience: Professional public artist since 1987 Gary has completed many major public commissions across the UK and in the USA. Gary’s works have received many awards including the ‘Best Architectural Mosaic’ award at the 2008 ‘Mosaic Arts

International’ in Miami and the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship in 2006. Gary was elected President of the British Association for Modern Mosaic between 2006-2009 and has lectured and written about mosaics in the UK and US.

Projects: Gary has completed many public commissions including works for the following local authorities: Bedford; Newtonards; Anglesey; Fylde; Leicester; Bexley; Dartford; Sutton; Islington; Leeds; North Somerset; Chester & West Cheshire.

Groups worked with: Schools, community groups.

Contact details:

gary@drostle.com

www.drostle.com

0771 952 9520

Art forms: Illustrator

Summary: Illustrator, lecturer, providing workshops around narrative, themes around reading and storytelling, school mural projects

Locations: Suffolk

Experience: Experience in schools, libraries, council events involving adults and children, yourng peoples workshops, lecturer at HND and degree levels

Qualifications: BA in visual communication

Projects: St Helen’s Canteen project

Mural at Broke Hall School, Ipswich on Dragonology workshop for book week

Greenaway prize workshop in Claydon school

Felixtowe community learning  open day

Ongoing projects at Suffolk Scrap Store

Dahl Day shop window and workshop in Newcastle Waterstones

Groups worked with: People with learning disabilities, older people, young adults, children

Contact details:

bee.willey@virgin.net

www.illustrationweb.com

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

bakerpaula@hotmail.com

www.footprintstheatrecompany.co.uk

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:

joanna.scott2@btinternet.com

www.joanna-scott.co.uk

07957 932476

St Albans, Hertfordshire.

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:

keithbotilier@yahoo.com

2 Abbeydale

Carlton Colville

Suffolk

NR33 8WJ

www.keithsphotography.co.uk

www.zazzle.com/keithbotilier

www.redbubble.com – search ‘keithbotilier’

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:

hedley@dangerspot.co.uk

hedley@hedleygriffinfilms.com

www.hedleygriffinfilms.com

01986 798613

PO BOX 274,

Woodbridge,

Suffolk,

IP13 WX

Sarah Straw

Sunshine

Sawston Silent Movie

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:

nicolamw@tiscali.co.uk

0771 256 7479

15 South Everard St,

King’s Lynn,

Norfolk

PE30 5HJ

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:

laura1978watson@mac.com

07974409228

Laura Watson – Making the Change

Art Forms: Visual artist

Summary: I am an artist living in Bury who has in the past worked with many groups of people.

I am currently an art teacher HMP Highpoint, working with the rigours and challenges required to hold a post in a prison in comparison to any teaching post elsewhere. We balance the requirements of professional teaching standards delivering National QCF accreditation with the roles of responsibility underlying any prison security/protection service. It is a challenging area to work with people at risk of being completely marginalized by our society through complex problems stemming from childhood, scarred by fractional family social backgrounds and deprived of the fundamental privileges of most. The men I teach then have to come to terms with the stigma attached to a holding a criminal record, the loss of self- dignity and facing up to impact their crime has had upon others.

Through previous free-lance employment I have been required to structure my own project plans and discipline of teaching to lead workshops for both long and short term projects with aims and objectives to coincide with the national curriculum accreditation standards, as assessed through RARPA.

I encourage cross-platform multi media approaches, with a personal bias towards papier-mâché as my own work is largely based in this medium. Though I teach graphic design using Photoshop at the prison I promote as much interlacing between the digital mediums and the practical arts as possible to be available for students so that they will discover how the work they do in the art room can be transferred to digital media. This approach will demonstrate the true value of the work produced in the art room, which as an artist I feel is essential to exercise continuously. In the long term a solid foundation evolves from which students can seek employment post release, so that when tested they can prove the existence of their practical skill, technical competence and feel confident in their own flow of innovative ideas rather than copy those of others.

The kind of work I really love doing with groups is most effective when channelled into an immediate form of expression such as wall/mural panting. This allows all participants to make their own mark of identity, work as a team and allows for virtual free rein on expression which in turn is reciprocated, welcomed and admired as a permanent feature to the fabric of the building in which they spend time.

It is through such artistic activities that I have witnessed creativity; sensitivity; pride; motivation and real enthusiasm emerge within people who have demonstrated the extreme opposites in destructive violence, towards their lives, others and most damaging, inflicting the harm and negative thoughts upon themselves.

Essentially I value the study of art for its restorative and remedial qualities that I believe only arise through the process of practical creative activity- again something that many students may never have properly experienced.

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.

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@genistadunham.co.uk
g-art@hotmail.co.uk
Tel: 07986 466 355
www.genistadunham.co.uk

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