CAST

(Project Lead)

A families summer learning programme, at NT Penrose, just outside Helston.

This project began as a response to the first Covid lockdown of 2020. The orienteering-style format allowed participants to engage in socially-distanced outdoor creative activities, using a specially designed map of the estate.

This popular programme continues to run on Saturdays during the summer holidays, in the Walled Garden at NT Penrose.

Although originally designed to facilitate remote, and self-led creative learning - CAST-Off has brought together over seven thousand participants, post-Covid.

CAST

(Project Lead)

An outdoor programme at four remote locations on the Lizard peninsula.

Aimed at local families, and located in communities identified as having limited access to free summer holiday activities.

Each of the event locations were within easy walking distance of local bus stops, and accessible via public footpath. Distribution of a specially designed map to local primary schools, took place during the last week of the summer term.

Programme content related to the historic nature of each site, with activities taking place at Gweek Classic Boat Yard, a former serpentine works in Ruan Minor, and a pilchard works at Polurrian.

NATIONAL TRUST GODOLPHIN

SHIFTING HORIZONS CIC

(Lead Artist)

A forest school project for secondary school pupils excluded from mainstream education - working in partnership with Shifting Horizons CIC and National Trust Godolphin.

Participants collected samples from the formal gardens, woodlands, and former mine workings at Goldolphin House. These were used to develop a palette of multipurpose paints and to create a spring/summer colour map of the estate.

The paints were used to create artworks on canvas for a public exhibition at NT Godolphin, and ‘Hayle Fire’, was used to decorate a classroom at one of the participating schools.

PORTHMEOR STUDIOS

(Lead Artist)

A printmaking project using the Japanese method of Gyotaku to record items in a catch, using squid ink.

This project reached over 2000 schoolchildren across Cornwall, including early years groups, primary and secondary pupils, home educators, and Post-16 art students. The workshop was also offered to professional printmakers, and visiting artists at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives.

Sponsored by the Fisheries Local Action Group.

TATE ST IVES

(Lead Artist)

A raw clay interactive learning space for all ages.

Part of the 2017 Tate St Ives exhibition, ‘That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920-Today’.

TATE ST IVES

(Lead Artist)

A magnetic interactive Tate Families installation in the Foyle Learning Space at Tate St Ives, with an assortment of shapes and elements derived from artworks on permanent display in the galleries.

Created for the re-opening of Tate St Ives in 2017, following redevelopment.

TATE ST IVES

(Lead Artist)

A four-year project, aimed at local audiences with additional needs or barriers to access (economic, physical, or social).

The project explored mid-C20 artists who lived and worked in St Ives.

As part of the programme, participants came to the Chocolaboratory to experiment with casting techniques, positive and negative forms, and liquid and solid states - with a focus on the geometric compositions of Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.

MUSEUM OF CORNISH LIFE

(Project Lead)

A community project for the winter lockdown of 2020.

Vintage knitting patterns were made available for download from the Museum website. Each pattern was sourced from the clothing archive at the Museum of Cornish Life.

This socially-distanced knitting circle extended far beyond Cornwall, reaching former residents and followers from around the globe.

Finished hats were posted from near and far, and donated to the Museum shop for sale.

TATE ST IVES

(Lead Artist)

A two-year project, involving young parents from Camborne, Redruth, and Penzance.

Participants explored the materials and processes used by Barbara Hepworth at her Trewyn studio in St Ives and compared Hepworth’s experiences of motherhood to their own.

The project culminated in an exhibition of work at Porthmeor Studios - part of the 2016 Tate Circuit SWITCH Festival.

CAST

(Project Manager)

Bangers & Mash-Up Festival, 2021

A pop-up, festival workshop creating fashion and accessories from factory waste with students from Falmouth University.

PORTHMEOR STUDIOS

(Project Lead)

Creating wire mobiles, using tracings taken from the different types of fish found in Cornish waters.

Initially developed for local primary schools, this workshop also went on to form part of an art therapy project for Outlook Southwest (NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly).

MUSEUM OF CORNISH LIFE

(Project Lead)

Everyday Things: An Everyday Thing, Every Day

A Lockdown 2020 social media and online engagement project.

A summer-long delve into the archive during the first lockdown of 2020 - sharing items related to the home and to ordinary daily activities taken for granted but out of reach.

CAST

MUSEUM OF CORNISH LIFE

(Event Lead)

A community lantern-making project and procession in Helston, Cornwall.

Supported by the Government’s Welcome Back Fund, to encourage communities back into town centres, post-Covid.

This project involved skills-sharing workshops, led by Laura Martin - creator of Wadebridge Bike Lights. These workshops were open to the public and local community groups and were attended by over 800 participants.

MUSEUM OF CORNISH LIFE

(Clothing Selection)

The Beyond Digitisation project was developed by Cornwall Museums Partnership in conjunction with Purpose 3D - a tech startup formed by postgraduate students from Falmouth University, as part of the Fal Launchpad scheme.

Items were selected from the Museum’s clothing archive and 3D-scanned to create a digital wardrobe for use in the commercial gaming industry. This online catalogue also forms part of Cornwall Museums Partnership’s shared digital resource.

TATE ST IVES

THE PRINCE’S TRUST

(Lead Artist)

The Great Art Quest took place at Tate St Ives in 2011/12 and allowed primary school children from four Penwith schools to reconsider and present the work of Barbara Hepworth - as if they were an imaginary group of curators and art experts.

I worked in partnership with actor and storyteller, Craig Johnson, to engage staff and pupils, and to explore different ways to deliver a narrative, using puppetry and performance.

As part of the project, participants created their own artworks inspired by Hepworth, for a public exhibition at Tate St Ives.

KESTLE BARTON

(Art Lead)

Art workshops inspired by the gardens and landscape at Kestle Barton, on the Lizard.

TATE ST IVES

LEACH POTTERY

(Lead Artist)

A Primary Education (Key Stage 1) Tate Town Project in conjunction with the Leach Pottery - part of the 2017 Tate St Ives exhibition, ‘That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920-Today’.

An exploration into traditional uses of clay, followed by a construction project, inspired by the radical, sculptural works of Aaron Angell and the Troy Town potters.

TATE ST IVES

(Early Years Lead, 2014-19)

A gallery-based regular programme for under fives and their carers.

This popular community group attracted an audience of loyal followers, and operated in conjunction with local children’s centres, young parent groups, and home educators.

TATE ST IVES

(Lead Artist)

A photography project for under fives with a focus on colour and composition.

Part of ‘The Modern Lens: International Photography and the Tate Collection’ exhibition at Tate St Ives in 2014.

TATE ST IVES

CORNWALL COUNCIL

(Lead Artist)

A two-year project, working with young parents and children in Penwith.

Weekly art workshops, designed to develop creative confidence and resourcefulness as part of the CC independent living strategy.

HOUSE OF FAIRYTALES

(Production Team / Facilitator)

A House of Fairytales commission to create a pop-up exhibition and education space in the basement of Selfridges department store, highlighting the effects of climate change on sea life.

HOUSE OF FAIRYTALES

(Facilitator)

Halloween families drop-in at One New Change, St Paul’s, London.

HOUSE OF FAIRYTALES

(Production Team / Facilitator)

The House of Fairytales children’s commission at Camp Bestival, Dorset in 2015.

The HoFT Collective operated a festival news agency at the centre of the Lulworth Estate, using a large, wooden Gutenberg-style printing press, as part of the festival’s medieval theme.

(Manager)

An outdoor creative learning programme for under fives and their carers.

TATE ST IVES

(Facilitator)

Interactive public drop-in space at Tate St Ives, inspired by the patterns of the Crysede fabrics, formerly produced in St Ives.

BARBARA HEPWORTH SCULPTURE GARDEN

(Lead Artist)

One of five sensory art workshops at different locations in St Ives - part of the Tate Town Project (2014-18).

This activity encouraged families from Cornwall Downs Syndrome Support Group, to explore the artworks and the gardens at Trewyn - formerly the home and workspace of artist and sculptor, Barbara Hepworth.