workshops

Collaborating in community has always been an important part of my practice. I specialise in running visual art workshops for children and adults which involve the exhibition of large numbers of works.

I am interested in facilitating autonomy within a collaborative framework while demonstrating and instilling transferrable take home skills .  I often combine artworks with abstract structures; creating large-scale participatory installation pieces. This transforms the work visually and conceptually, and creates a goal and collective achievement for the all the makers involved.

I've used my training and experience to design simple methodical classes, based on traditional sculpture techniques and technical tricks to support people to create successful intricate, and often complex sculptures and paintings. I use kit bags, handmade armatures and tools designed specifically for the groups or individuals needs, this allows me to facilitate collaborators of all ages and abilities.

City Gallery. Gold Coast. 2016

Brisbane Airport. Art with Altitude Exhibiton. 2016

The Green Room. SWELL Sculpture Festival. 2013.

A collaborative installation at Swell Sculpture festival with Natasha Edwards and Ruth Della.

Photography by Rowly Emmett.

#TheWall. Swell Sculpture Festival.2015

I built this Installation using recycled doors, it spelled out ‘We are Here’ from above. Its size increases in the divine mean or Golden ratio. Ironlak sponsored aerosols and paintpens for the ten days of the festival and I facilitated the public to participate and vandalise their thoughts, feelings and politics on to the walls. All the doors were hinged and moveable.

Images courtesy of Peter Ryan and Rowley Emmet.

Shoreditch Townhall, Angels and Demons Exhibition (2008)

For many years I managed an art department in a street level centre for profoundly vulnerable young people in South East London. My work involved running a daily art club, mentoring and key working young people, designing, refurbishing and building therapeutic spaces for staff and young people to work in, painting murals collaboratively across London, recruiting artists to collaborate with young people, and organising large scale exhibitions involving hundreds of participants..

In 2008 I co-curated, managed and exhibited in an enormous exhibition at Shoreditch Townhall in London in which we facilitated thousands of young people to communicate the realities of their lives. The Exhibition was well received with recorded acclaim from Gilbert and George, Jake and Dinos Chapman, and Damien Hirst, who all went on to contribute to and work with the charity. The work had huge impact in turning around the public and governments view of ‘Hoodies’ and led to a redirection of funding and policy in the Tory government as well as getting government funding for the Charity to continue and expand its reach.

‘Angels and Demons,’ Shoreditch Townhall, London (2008).