PUBLIC ARTWORKS
Artworks created through a process of community engagement.
ELGAR BIRTHPLACE
Elgar Birthplace
Artist led workshops created paper forms based on the very landscape Elgar was inspired by. The sculpture captures the essence of someone looking out onto that landscape while the children's sculptures have been recreated in line form and blasted into the Aluminium surface.
SLEEPING GIANT
Leighswood Primary School
Cross Disciplinary Artworks : Dreamed of and designed by children working with writer Pete Wynne Wilson, and artist Claire Witcomb. It was then brought to life by stone carver Michael Schuermann.
Creative Partnerships Funded
PRIORY EAGLE
Priory School, Edgbaston.
I worked with the entire primary age children. Together we
re-imagined an Eagle ( the school mascot ) using mixed and recycled media.
1.5m x 50cm
SHELDON SCIENCE CORRIDOR
HIGHFIELD MOSAIC
Collaborative workshop based project to create a magic carpet mosaic that reflected the people and places within that community.
RORY RAINBOW + THE LOST BEAR
The POD Nechells and Bloomsbury Nursery School.
Rory was created using ideas from the community - the connected threads that are the people at the heart of the Nechells community.
The Bloomsbury Bear was found alone in the garden. The nursery children decided that he was lost and that they would care for him by bringing clothes and food. They brought him inside so they could look after him. The care and gifts bestowed by the children inspired the mosaic we created together. Wrapping him up in clothes and wondrous things...
MAKE IT
New Art Gallery Walsall. Multisensory exploration space for young children. Cross disciplinary project involving visual artist, dancer, musician, story teller.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Gloucester. Working with families in their homes to collaborate in creating artwork.
Exhibited at home + at The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum.
ACE DANCE
Skin: Set and costume, developmental process. Exploring the skin we inhabit and ways of being.
COMMUNITY
Public engagement
NEW ART GALLERY WALSALL
Exploring light workshops.
Using light and photography to create artworks. Inspired by Exhibition by Thomas Heatherwick.
SCULPTURAL FORMS
Working in a range of media with a group of young people (LAC) to create large-scale sculptural artworks based on the body.
BLETCHLEY PARK
Creative Consultation work with Education Dept. to explore ideas of making the park more accessible to new audiences : Parents and families from Gingerbread participated.
SPICE CART
Working with various womens groups at the Springfield Project to create a 'Spice Cart' adorned with diverse artforms. Launched at a Tea-Party event engaged in Connecting Diverse Communities though conversations and experiences around the rituals of Tea.
COSELEY GATES
Coseley School
Collaborative design process with young people at the school.
Mosaic by Claire Witcomb
Metal Fabrication by Phil @ SteelFX
STOCKLAND GREEN
LSLP – Building Schools for the Future/LEP
Corrian colours
Integral wayfinding artwork designed with young people as part of programme of artists working with architects in schools.
ACE DANCE
Skin : Stage Set build.
https://acedanceandmusic.com/production/skin
LIFELINES
Heritage Lending Boxes based on WW1
Working with a local history group & the Nottingham University on a project to make real some of the stories of local people, each crate tells the story of one of three individuals who experienced the war. These multi sensory lending crates will bring wartime stories to classrooms.
MOUSE HOUSE
Brandon Marsh Wildlife Centre
Tactile stone, metal and mosaic sculptures for the “Mouse House,”
Working in collaboration with sculptor Angelo Bordonarl
MOSAIC RIPPLES AND POETRY STONES
Leighswood School
Working to design outdoor spaces with StoneCarver Michael Schuermann and young people. The young people helped me install the pebble mosaic.
NEW ART GALLERY WALSALL
Trace Workshops - 3 days exploring ideas and concepts around mapping.
Young people 13-17yr old.
FARM SCHOOL
Wirework workshops to design artwork in school grounds.
Galvanized steel.
1.2m x 1.5m
TEACHERS AS PUBLIC ARTISTS
The Study Centre, Birmingham Botanical Gardens. ( Funded by BCC )
Working with teachers to design, develop and create public artworks within the Botanical Gardens.
COW OWL
Recycling Design with Telford schools and artist Jackie Grange.
BLETCHLEY PARK
Pattern Play
LIGHTWOODS SCHOOL
Rocket Path
Collaborative design with Willow Artist and children to create outdoor imaginative spaces.
SORREL WORKSHOPS
Learning Spaces Living Places
Designing better cities in collaboration with young people
ORCHARD SPECIAL SCHOOL
Peel
Creative connections. Workshops with young people exploring fruit in multi sensory ways to create photographic artworks.
QUIET CARNIVAL
August 2020, Friction Arts, Digbeth
A summer celebration of diverse artwork and artists. I exhibited new work created during lockdown. I spent a lot of time walking my local canal and was influenced by the waste I saw. Time felt different. I collected waste, so the beauty of the canal and wildlife could shine. Documenting my walks, and the waste collected led me to create small hand held artworks, that became viewers, sharing the things I had seen.
This was shown at Quiet Carnival, which was a culmination of being a particiant in 'Walking over Coals' with Friction Arts ( A responsive CPPPD programme for artists ). I also worked on some short films and discarded road signs, with vinyl to reframe the notion of a warning, thinking about the environment and a moment in time where we are thinking about where next ?
