Workshops with schools, galleries and community groups. Experience with all age groups from pre-school to the elderly, covering everything from public consultations to school art weeks, projects and events. Below are two recent workshops with background information and a gallery of many more examples.
FAIRY STORIES Reception pupils created fairy tale landscapes pages using pre-cut vinyl shapes and fashioned characters from air dry clay. The clay creations were added to the story landscapes and varnished, each page was scored, folded and grouped to form an interchangable star shaped fairy tale.
EMOTIONS Two workshops, a teacher's inset and a group of home educated youngsters, exploring emotions through the emoji. Based on ideas from Zoe Beloff's exhibition 'Emotions go to Work' at firstsite, participants used playdoh to re-create emotions on celebrity faces, cut vinyl and yellow circles to invent new emojis and a range of existing emoji's were cut up to form visual stories.
Adult activity for festivals and events.