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Bonnie Bayou
The Jennifer Ewan Band had approached me to think about how they might create an interesting back drop for their stage. They are performing during the Edinburgh fringe in their show named Bonnie Bayou which reflects their Cajun/Scottish influences. I met with Jen and Kim to discuss what they wanted…..convey the idea of Louisiana swamp/creole/creeping […]
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Playing with Light at St Cadocs Primary School
I was asked to develop a course for p6/7 to help them to work well together, challenge their art practice and provide opportunities for them to celebrate and share their achievements. I looked at how we could make this unusual and exciting and keep them engaged throughout the full project. I designed a series of […]
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Lightwaves Festival
Lightwaves is the UK’s biggest digital light festival. I provided a drop in activity to allow participants to create their own digital art. My light graffiti activity was very popular and participants created some fantastic work. All the images created can be viewed here – https://lightgraffiti.wordpress.com/
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Panto presents Jack and the Beansprouts
I was asked by Festival Theatre to create a bespoke bean stalk for the stairwell in the sick kids Hospital Edinburgh. The engagement team at the theatre create a special show for the children in the hospital that are not well enough to attend the pantomime. The bean stalk installation adds to this Christmas […]
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First Impressions
First Impressions was a short learning programme focusing on historic shopfronts in Falkirk. The project was funded through Falkirk Townscape Heritage Initiative, and was aimed at Upper Primary Pupils. Four schools took part, Victoria, Comely Park, Laurieston and St Andrews Primary Schools. The project explored two main areas, the architecture and the signage of historic […]
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First Impressions – Falkirk’s Historic Shopfronts Art Project
https://falkirkshopfronts.wordpress.com/ A new blog for this project exploring historic shopfront architecture and signage.
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Kaimes School @ Festival Theatre
I was really excited to be asked to work with Kaimes School as part of Festival Theatre’s pool of engagement artists. Kaimes School for children with additional needs, were preparing take part in the Awfy Big Variety Show in Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. They were developing a drama piece and needed someone to help them make […]
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Kilsyth Arts and Heritage Trail
I worked with Kilsyth Primary School to help them engage with their heritage and the local community. Each class took part in workshops with me to create a temporary art installation that would form part of an art trails for the 140 year celebration of the school. Each artwork focussed on an area of local […]
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Campsie View School Circle Tree
Campsie View is a school for children with a range of additional support needs. I was asked to work with each child (about 90 pupils) so they could contribute to a mural for the front entrance. Which such a range of mental and physical ability I developed a project that everyone could get involved in. […]
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Mugstock art 2016
I was back to work with Strathblane Primary school once again to create some colourful nonsense for Mugstock festival. Shadow puppet images for the heris fencing and robot and monsters from the future.
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Over The Rainbow – PEEK
I spent a week working with some children from Glasgow during spring break. We created a temporary arts trail inspired by rainbows and everything colourful.
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Kickstart Day @ XL Arts and Employability
The aim was to give 100 teenagers from North Lanarkshire a taste of what its like to do my job. I focused on my work for music festivals as I thought it would appeal to their imagination. I asked them to create monsters from clay imagining that they were huge scale so people at a […]
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Once Upon My Time – 2015
I have been working with nursery children at Crawforddyke Primary to create shadow puppet images. The images will be published in the childrens our storybooks all about them. they will now go on to work with a storyteller to complete the project.
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Be Safe Project Returns
I have been busy running CPD training for nursery practitioners from all over South Lanarkshire. About eight years ago I created an education resource with the areas cultural coordinators to help teachers to introduce children to child protection issues. The resource focuses on the early warning signs and a network of support all tackled in […]
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Bella Art 2015
Its festival time again and I am delighted to be back at Belladrum. This time with two colourful installations after the success of the horses last year. Eyes on you Inspired by the googley eye craze I created some eye lanterns to give the trees some personality. Umbrella Walkway This is not a new idea […]
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Mugstock Umbrellyfish
MugStock is a new boutique festival of music, performance, food, drink and extraordinary occurrences, set amid the stunning natural surroundings of Mugdock Country Park, just north of Glasgow. I was asked by the festival director to create a colourful art installation for the site. Mugdock park is very near to Strathblane so we thought it […]
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Community Hub Consultation – Tillydrone
I led primary 4/5 at Riverbank School through a series of fun visual art activities so they could get involved in the community consultation for the new community hub. We covered themes of community, location, design and functionality. Community Jigsaw Each piece of this jigsaw represents one person in the community. It shows what is […]
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Light Art Elective @ Portland High
I worked with students from Portland High for 6 weeks. The school offers day support to young people who need special educational provision ( emotional, behavioral, social difficulties). To keep the students engaged, inspired and motivated we worked on a different project each session. We tackled various forms of light art with an encouraging yet […]
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creative engagement – art meets cycling
I am often asked to create workshops to help people engage with a subject in a fun and creative way. This time was was asked by Cycling Scotland to develop my travel planning art sessions, this time for secondary age students. I designed the sessions so the students could try some different techniques on maps […]
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