Arts4All - Sharing Oustanding Practice: Projects featured in NSEAD EUpdate

The recent educational work I have delivered through the Kirklees Arts4All Scheme is featured in the latest NSEAD (National Society for Education in Art and Design) E Update via a powerpoint document created by Natalie Deane. My projects include Photography at Scholes J&I School and Crowlees J&I School, plus animation at Hyrstmount Junior School alongside Fabric Lenny.

Hanging prints at Scholes J&I School, Holmfirth

Extended Drawing at Crowlees J&I School, Mirfield

The Habitats Animation set at Hyrstmount Junior School, Batley

Crowlees Photography Project Featured in In Kirklees

The Arts4All Photography Project I recently delivered at Crowlees J&I School in Mirfield is featured in In Kirklees, an online daily newspaper by Spencer Wilson which collates news from throughout Kirklees. Fantastic!!

Crowlees Photography Project

I have just completed my last education project for this summer term which was a fantastic photography project at Crowlees J&I School, Mirfield as part of the Kirklees Arts4All Initiative. This was a four day project working with 60 Y5 pupils to create a limited edition hard back book and a limited edition giclee print to be framed and displayed in school. Throughout the project I worked with children to explore their school through the lens of a mobile device, including iPhones, iPods and iPads. In line with my own arts practice I encouraged the children to seek out interesting images by looking very closely at their surroundings and capturing images from angles in which they would not normally see things. 

 

I then worked with the children to process their images on mobiles devices through a range of photography apps. 

The children also produced a selection of drawings and pieces of creative writing by using their images as a starting point for stories, poetry and drawing. 

I had a wonderful time on this project, the children were great and they produced some amazing work. Here are some of their final images...

More information on this project can be found on the Kirklees Arts4All Blog - Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4.

The Rainforest

I have just finished working on an animation project at Benjamin Adlard Primary School in Gainsborough with a fantastic group of young children. In a week they made an animated documentary film based on animals from the South American Rainforest. All the characters were made out of cardboard and were animated using the replacement technique. The children also wrote and recorded the narration along with some amazing animal sounds. Here are some images captured during the making process...

Howler Monkey on set

Toucan and butterfly on set

Replacement characters: Howler Monkey, Red Tree Frog and Sloth

Replacement Characters: Red Tree Frog, Toucan, Howler Monkey and Sloth