Joseph's Techicolour Dream Coat

Creative Partnership project working with year 5's at Brookfield Primary School, Mansfield. The group looked at pattern and symbolism to create panels for a technicoloured dream coat.
The coat is being worn as part of their christmas production.

Meadows Library Project

Alongside AMC Gardens and "Meadows Alive" , I worked with local children to design and make artwork for the new Meadows Library Garden.
The group took inspiration from Fiona Heron's garden design as well as from flowers and plants around the Meadows area.
They designed and painted flower head which were then put on to metal stems and placed by the group around the garden space.

Yeoman Park Special School

A Creative Arts project with Yeoman Park Special School. My favourite sort of project, expressive and messy. We experimented with paint, collage, dessicated coconut, tin foil and icing sugar to make a winter forest scene.

Tram Travellors

Children from Huntingdon Primary and Our Lady Primary painted and decorated a giant tram to celebrate 5 years of them running in Nottingham. The work came at the end of a series of workshops were the young people learnt all about the history of the trams in Nottingham
The piece is adorned with pictures showing moments from the Trams history.

landliesfallow

A series of workshops and art events in the Meadows exploring ideas of common land. The project worked alongside photographer Sian Stammers who documented wild meadow flowers growing in the area.
Groups collected seeds and planted wild flowers, they took part in conversations and consultation about the impact and importance of green spaces in urban settings.
The project was funded by the Arts Council.

New Painting

Desert island project with Charnwood Arts

A group of young people found themselves stranded on a Desert island with nothing but art to entertain them, along with artist Vanessa Rose we created an istallation complete with totem pole and palm trees as well as mobiles, drums and costumes.

Tram Traveller

Rufford Junior School and Berridge Junior School worked to created images for a Tram Traveller Time Line, showing the history of trams in Nottingham. The groups have been working with GroundWorks to find out all about the Trams in Nottingham, visiting the tram museum in Critch and having debates and discussions.

The work is on show at Bulwell Library and Hyson Green Library and will also be shown as part of a larger exhibition of all the Tram Travellor work next year.

Where the Wild things are

We spent two days with groups of children from Mansfield Primary Schools working on props, Scenery and Drama inspired by the story "Where the wild things are". Other artists from Samanya Drama created Masks, Story boards and dramatic moments from the story. I worked with groups to create "word trees". The group imagined what the trees may look like were the wild things live, and used describing words as a starting point to make branches, flowers and leaves for the trees. They were then used as part of the scenery for the afternoon show.

Nottingham Contemporary Consultation Project

A group of year five pupils from Haydn Primary School built their own version of Nottingham Contemporary. After making plans and ideas for the interior and exterior of the building they used willow to build art galleries (complete with art work) which we then took a tour round.

Laura knight- Idylls of the Guides

After a visit to the castle to see the Laura Knight painting " idylls of the King" , the Bulwell guide group spent six sessions telling stories and creating artwork for a scrap book that is now being displayed at the castle along with the original works of art!

St Benedicts Secondary School

A Creative Partnerships project looking at ideas of "Tommorrow's World". Year 8 students drew pictures of the schools garden space and then imagined what it may be like in the future, adding models and text to make a comic book scene.

Laura Knight's. Idylls of the king

Working with a group from the Bulwell Book Group who produced texts (with writer Rosie Garner) and this painting, as a response to Laura Knights work "Idylls of the King" which is on show at Nottingham Castle.

The Impossible Prison

Image from a workshop run as part of Nottingham Contemporary's Impossible Prison exhibition. School groups visited the exhibition and explored idea of rules and surveillance as well as having the opportunity to see a wide range of artworks from Bruce Nauman to Mona Hartoum.