I’ve been involved in arts and design projects with young people since 2003, working with schools and community groups as a visual artist. I've run one-off projects for children in care, primary school classes and BBC Blast, and run a weekly drawing club – delivering a different drawing project every week for the last two years. I am trained as a bronze and silver Arts Award advisor.
Throughout the 2008-09 academic year I was employed by Isambard Community Scool, Swindon to teach both KS3 Art and Design & Technology classes part-time: thrown in at the deep end without a PGCE, I survived (!) and have built up a good range of teaching materials and activities. In addition I have visited schools and provided 'practicing professional' input for Key Stage 4 ICT students A Level Art & Design students. I am involved in the delivery of the new 14-19 Creative and Media Diploma. In October 2009 I delivered a series of arts avtivities for Juconi, a charity for underpriviledged children in Mexico, and am now working on an education programme to link UK schools with the kids in Mexico.
My bias within youth arts work is toward exploring image-making as a communicative (more than an expressive) art form. I deliver workshops in basic visual art skills such as drawing, colour theory and ways of seeing, and develop these skills into problem-solving and visual communication within graphic design workshops.
In addition to working with young people I have also co-ordinated public exhibitions and displays, and design promotional materials for community arts organisations. |
