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ANNA ATKINSON : sound, words, movement, texture, creative writing, installations, & film
MY WORK
I have been working as a Transpersonal Arts Counsellor for 6 years and have over 300 hours of supervised clinical practice. I originally obtained a degree in Illustration at the University of the Arts, at Camberwell college of Art, which led to an interest in using the creative impulse as a way to illustrate stories and ideas. I have worked extensively in Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form schools helping to facilitate creative educational interventions for individuals and groups, particularly in relation to challenging behavioural needs in financially and culturally deprived areas. My practice incorporates art, sound, words, movement, texture, creative writing, installations, film, voice, colour and body work, with an emphasis on the intuitive voice and the power of being witnessed in authenticity. |
Address: St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
Tel: 07702 813144 Email: postisnicer@aol.com Website: http://theredshoesproject.com/the-red-shoes-project.html Arts practice: Transpersonal Arts counsellor and theraputic arts workshop facilitator for adults and children. SCHOOL WORK I have worked in Primary Education for over 4 years and Secondary education for 3 years working in diverse roles within schools such as counsellor, teaching assistant, regular cover teacher, English tutor and Arts technician. I work with many SEN pupils and have qualifications in counselling as well as an art degree obtained from Camberwell. I have extensive training in working with SEN pupils, promoting inclusive practice, run daily lunchtime and after school clubs and have just trained in teaching children meditation. I have independently curated and produced three whole school theraputic arts exhibitions promoting inclusive practice with cross curricular links and run group theraputic arts sessions for all year groups within the Primary setting as a full time Inclusion Lead teaching assistant. I have also created and run two recent childrens art workshops at The De La Warr, Beneath the Branches and Voyages of Discovery for a range of ages based on the work of artists George Shaw and Simon Patterson.I use diverse, often child directed approaches using storytelling, mindful sensory exploration, drama, meditative drawing, creative writing and imaginative play. I keep detailed and updated casenotes and have a targeted solution focused approach that aims to support both children and parents and promote a holistic and gentle pro-active addition to social and emotional wellbeing. |
CLAIRE BUCKLEY : TEXTILE ARTIST
MY WORK
Textile artist, author and educator specilaising in embroidery and tapestry weaving. My current work, which I exhibit and make on commission, brings together my interests in the beauty industry, clothing and textiles, using colour as a key visual element in the designs. I have exhibited work in group and solo shows. My tapestry weaving exhibition ‘Transitions’ was in the Orangery at Knole for the National Trust. The work was inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando. Author of ‘Start to Embroider’ and ‘Start to Stitch’ which have been translated into Russian, Indonesian and Danish (Search Press) I share my passion, knowledge and experience for textiles through courses at museums and in schools and talks, demonstrations and consultation on textiles to the National Trust and the Charleston Trust among other clients. I was chair of the Young Embroiderers; the youth section of the Embroiderers Guild. |
Address: St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex
Telephone: 07771 456291 Email: claire.buckley@btinternet.com Website: clairebuckleytextiles.com Twitter: @clairebtextiles Pinterest: claire buckley SCHOOLS WORK : QUALIFICATIONS
SCHOOLS WORK: EXPERIENCE Global Dimension projects with St Mary Star of the Sea and Pestalozzi. Using visual arts/textiles techniques to explore the interconnections of the concepts of global education. Painted and stitched wall hanging was designed and made by pupils to be donated to their link school in Sierra Leone. |
ALEX BRATTELL: PHOTOGRAPHER
MY WORK
Photographing people, objects, places and events to commission for publications, agencies, artists, designers and craftspeople. Art practice communicating moments of heightened awareness, anomalies and curiosities found in the mundane world in search of resonance beyond subject matter. Darkroom based printmaking often leading to digitised outcomes for site specific exhibition. http://www.silverhilldarkroom.co.uk/ |
Name: Alex Brattell
Address: St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex Telephone: 07767 611388 Email: alex@brattell.com Website: http://www.brattell.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexander.brattell Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexbrattell SCHOOLS WORK: QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
Part time teacher of photography since 1996 helping people realise voice through photography in schools, colleges, universities, galleries and community venues. Experienced working with schools directly and with agencies and galleries such as Creative Partnerships, Jerwood, Towner, De La Warr Pavilion, Whitechapel Gallery. Arts Award advisor. CV at http://www.brattell.com. RECENT SCHOOL WORK Stop motion animation workshop using phones and apps for Blue Monkey artists' network at Towner Gallery Eastbourne. Photogram & pinhole portrait popup darkroom for children, Page Break Festival Hastings. Production of exhibition with photography students at Rye Studio School using online tools to create large banners for Rye Arts Festival. |
REBECCA FIFIELD: THEATRE / PERFORMANCE
MY WORK
A sensory and participatory theatre that fuses drama, dance and music. Performance work can be devised or text based; and is always physical. A strong element of design is often present in the use of simple, interchangeable props. There is emphasis on extending horizons, following imaginative paths and building confidence to take risks. One off workshops are available in specialist areas such as masks, clowning and ensemble-work, with storytelling sessions for younger participants. I also create bespoke series of workshops, which can tie into a specific theme and develop skills. |
Address: St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
Telephone: 07946 354 027 Email: outofthebagtheatre@gmail.com Website: www.out-of-the-bag-theatre.co.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/Hatsdramaforearlyyears Twitter: twitter.com/Hats_St_L SCHOOLS WORK: QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
SCHOOLS WORK : PRACTICE
Performing Arts in Primary Schools: devising and delivering bespoke performance workshops, often tying in with the curriculum topic. West St. Leonards Primary, April / May 2013, Reception classes, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’: brought the story and related topic ‘Mini Beasts’ to life through dance, music and actions. *N.B. Due to maternity leave the most recent project was in 2013. As freelance Theatre Practitioner / Director: Artis Education: designing and delivering bespoke curriculum based programmes. Also devised productions with after school clubs. Eastside Education: school club devising piece on The Future of Our City’; sessions designed and delivered in Schools for Book Week. Almeida Projects: ‘Marianne Dreams’, Secondary School project. Half Moon Young People’s Theatre: Early Years and Foundation Stage, several projects. M.A. Theatre Directing, Goldsmiths / Arts Award Advisor Discover, Explore, Bronze, Silver Director & Practitioner: Mentor, Artis Education, De La Warr Pavilion ,Young Vic Playroom, Jerwood Gallery, Half Moon Young People’s Theatre, Eastside Education, Almeida Projects Stage & Production Management: Complicite, Chichester Festival Theatre, Lyric, RSC, Royal Court, Shakespeare’s Globe. Equity member |
KEVIN GRAAL: STORYTELLER
MY WORK
Storyteller, workshop leader, conference speaker and trainer
Member of National Association of Writers in Education. |
Address: St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex
Telephone: 07970 748 628 Email: kevin@talkingtales.org Website: www.talkingtales.org Vimeo: vimeo.com/kevingraal SCHOOLS WORK: EXPERIENCE
Working in Early Years settings and schools since 1981. My approach to teaching and learning is light-hearted and dynamic. At the same time, I work in highly structured ways: introducing ideas in carefully graded stages, providing clear frameworks, balancing verbal and non-verbal elements, pitching work at exactly the right level. SCHOOLS WORK: PRACTICE
Helping learners to find their voices and experience first-hand the pleasure and power of words; enabling them to articulate curiosity about the world and express responses to it; fostering confidence to ask incisive questions and critical skills to formulate thoughtful answers; nurturing core skills to help young learners to learn. Recent residencies in 8 East Sussex primary schools on a range of themes: from learning outside the classroom to developing playful approaches to phonics; from 'talking books' with 5-year olds to improving the literacy skills of reluctant writers through storytelling & role-play. Successful language development project with cross-phase group of reluctant writers at Shinewater Primary in Eastbourne. Project focus on one, multi-layered picture book (Anthony Browne's The Tunnel) over 5 half-days. Pre and post project tests demonstrated significant improvements in literacy levels. |
LORNA HAMILTON-BROWN: ILLUSTRATOR
MY WORK
I am an illustrator who works in many different mediums, digital, knitted art, textiles, drawing, monoprints, linocuts & storytelling. SCHOOLS WORK: QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
I am an Explore and Discovery Arts award adviser. Currently undertaking training to become a Silver and Bronze Arts award Adviser. I have a PGCE in Higher Education SCHOOLS WORK: PRACTICE
I have many years experience of working with vulnerable young people. Black History Month Art Project with year 9 students at Hastings Academy.I am currently working as lead artist with schools in rural East Sussex on a Well Being project. |
Name: Lorna Hamilton-Brown
Address: St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex Telephone: 07932 602979 Email: hi@lornahamiltonbrown.com Website: www.lornahamiltonbrown.com Twitter: twitter.com/lhamiltonbrown |
ROSEMARY HARRIS: WRITER AND PERFORMER
MY WORK
Rosemary Harris is an Australian writer and performer. An ex-member of the Sydney Theatre Company, Rosemary has performed at Sydney Opera House, New York’s Summerfare Festival, and UK performances include Southbank Centre, Bristol Poetry Festival, Glastonbury Festival, and many others. Her prize-winning work is widely published, and broadcasts include CBeebies’ Poetry Pie and Radio 3’s The Verb. Her spoken word shows for young people, A Roo In My Suitcase and One Way Ticket tour the UK with Half Moon Theatre, while a third show, Safety Catch, working with young asylum-seekers, is in development. |
Name: Rosemary Harris
Address: Hastings, East Sussex Telephone: 07815 028255 Email: harriswords@gmail.com Website: www.rosemaryharris.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/RHWords SCHOOL WORK QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
With a degree in Drama and an MA in Creative & Life Writing, Rosemary has taught and delivered creative educational projects for over 20 years, including for Apples and Snakes, the Poetry Society, Creative Partnerships, Tate Britain, De La Warr Pavilion, Jerwood Gallery, in schools and many other settings. Member of NAWE (National Association of Writers in Education). Extensive mainstream and SEN experience across Primary, Secondary, and Adult Education. SCHOOLS WORK: PRACTICE
Creative writing, performance, literacy and oracy skills, drama, cross-curricular and multi-media projects. In 2014/15 Rosemary is an artist-educator on the Start project at Jerwood Gallery Hastings with primary and secondary schools, using visual art as stimulus for creative, language-based response. Discover Centre ‘Catching Words’ project in East London, working with Y2 classes writing story books for in-house publication, looking at narrative, character, and language skills through roleplay. |
SUZY HARVEY : PERFORMANCE
MY WORK
I am a performer, who specialises in bringing light, fun and play to places where those things don’t always exist. I work as a Giggle Doctor in children’s hospitals, I facilitate staff in care homes to become more connected in fun ways with their residents and I work theatrically I many ways with people living with Dementia. In addition to this I facilitate children’s events, make huge balloon models, teach laughter yoga and ukulele. |
Name: Suzy Harvey Address: Hastings, East Sussex Telephone: 07957 482 955 Email: suzy@suzyharvey.com Website: suzyharvey.com Twitter: SCHOOLS EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS In schools, I run confidence building theatre workshops for teenagers, encouraging them to look each other in the eye, be brave enough to talk in front of the group and work with people they don’t know. These workshops are challenging, but fun! |
SHARON HAWARD: VISUAL ARTIST
MY WORK
At the centre of my practice is an interest of cities, building and space. I like to make artworks that create a conversation between the space and the items I place in it with the audience also being a part of the overall impact. I use 3D structures, video projections and sound in different combinations to create environments and installations that provide the viewer with a sensory experience that engages some of the following - touch, hearing, smell, peripheral vision, a sense of embodiment. |
Name: Sharon Haward
Address: Hastings, East Sussex Telephone: 07958 615413 Email: sharonhaward@hotmail.com Website: www.sharonhaward.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/205744216131802/ Projects: http://undergroundprojectspace.wordpress.com SCHOOLS WORK: QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
I have a PGCE in Art and Design and 30 years experience of working in a range of formal and informal educational settings including Sussex Coast College, De La Warr Pavilion (school workshops, gallery interpretation and adult workshops) Culture Shift and Project Artworks. SCHOOLS WORK: PRACTICE
I worked with a class from Saxon Mount and their teacher on a gallery trip to De La Warr Pavilion. We explored the work of Alison Turnball and Matthew Calderwood. We looked for evidence of mathematical processes, regularity and repetition in Turnball’s work and at materials and decay in Calderwood’s work. Through DLWP I have worked with numerous schools for over ten years working on site in the gallery and in the studio. I worked with various schools on the Mark Leckey exhibition. Gallery activities focussed on looking for links between the artworks, linking art to other subjects such as science, technology, history and in the studio the activities were based on mapping individual experience and working together to make communal work with a hidden key. |
RIZ MALSEN : SOUND / COMPOSITION / VISUAL
MY WORK
Riz Maslen has been described as one of the most prominent women electronic composers in post-techno experimental electronics. I have created commissioned works for Kew Gardens, The De La Warr Pavilion, Bow Arts Open and Coastal Currents. In 2012 I was a finalist in the ENO’s mini opera’s. Also in 2012 I was sound artist in residence as part of an international team of explorers, scientists and capacity builders working with a remote forest community in Central Borneo. 2014 saw me performing live at the De La Warr Pavilion, Union Chapel and H2o festival in Finland. |
Name: Riz Maslen
Address: St. Leonards-on-Sea Telephone: 07751129422 Email: riz.maslen@gmail.com Website: www.neotropic.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Neotropic/265508915611 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/neotropic Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user3013581 SCHOOL WORK: EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS For the past 10 years have been freelancing as a music technology facilitator. Working with many different client groups throughout the South East. Much of my work in East London has been working with hard to reach young people to engage them through music and technology. SCHOOL WORK: PRACTICE Being Rural at Staplecross Primary School Working with a rural school in regard to their surroundings/landscape. Using mobile technology to record audio/field recording’s to represent their environment. As part of the project the children created drawn landscapes of which we attached the sound file image to show how similar sound can also represent it’s own landscape. I created a short film to showcase their work. |
HELEN MARSHALL: THE PEOPLE'S PICTURE
MY WORK
The People’s Picture combines thousands of photographs, creating a giant photo mosaic that tells a story, commemorates an important occasion or brings attention to important social issues. Each photo mosaic is assembled from thousands of photos yet every single one tells a story. In 2006 The Big Picture broke the world record for the largest photo mosaic in the world. Marshall’s People’s Picture projects have been featured in the national news and are held in private and public collections in a diverse range of locations including cathedrals, museums, airports, and on the street. |
Name: The People’s Picture
Address: London Telephone: 02087932769 Email: mail@helenmarshall.com Website: thepeoplespicture.com Social Media pages: twitter.com/peoplespicture Instagram.com/thepeoplespicture Nature of your arts practice: Collaborative Community Art. Photography. Digital Art. Large scale photo mosaics. SCHOOL WORK: EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS Lead artist Helen Marshall has a Postgraduate certificate in Education, a teaching background and many years experience running workshops with primary and secondary schools through to further and higher education. RECENT SCHOOLS PROJECT: The National Memorial Arboretum in 2016 - we ran a series of portrait workshops with school children during the half term. During our project ‘Victoria at 21’ we ran photography workshops at St Augustine’s RC Primary School, as well as visiting Oakley School, and Hillview School for Girls – Tonbridge. ADDITIONAL: Over twenty years experience working across the education sector in arts, alongside various arts collaborations. Previous clients include BBC Television, Tate Britain, Canary Wharf Group and The Photographers’ Gallery. |
JANEY MOFFAT: FILM & VIDEO / ANIMATION / PUPPET MAKING / SCULPTURE / PRINTMAKING
MY WORK I am a multi-media creative practitioner who has studied Art at West Dean College and English Literature at Leeds University. My love of creativity and words led into a 15 year film and video career that took me to Qatar, Afghanistan, USA and other destinations. These days I mix it up with stop motion animation, puppet making, print making and making a mess. I fuse art with craft techniques for her job at The Craftimation Factory. My practice includes using recycled fabrics and found objects to make political and personal statements in experimental mixed media wall hangings and papier mache puppets. |
Name: JANEY MOFFAT
Address: St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex Telephone: 07535279444 Email: janey@thecraftimationfactory.org Website: thecraftimationfactory.org Facebook: facebook.com/knittedanimationworkshops SCHOOLS WORK: QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE Delivering Arts Award and other projects in primary and secondary schools, art galleries Jerwood (Pearls of the Sea) and a six week residency for Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love. Delivering arts for young people’s wellbeing. Including ‘Resolutions’ – using art to resolve conflict, and ‘Telling Your Story’ – for Culture Shift. SCHOOLS WORK: PRACTICE I am Artist in Residence in OVPA, Hastings and The Mill, Crawley. RECENT SCHOOLS PROJECTS Current residency at The Mill Primary Academy, Crawley as part of their Room 13 project. The school has a dedicated art studio that is run by a committee of pupils with the support of an artist in residence. |
JIM ROSEVEARE : SCULPTURE / INSTALLATION / VIDEO / PHOTOGRAPHY
MY WORK
Working for many years as a tree surgeon and artist has given me a particular insight into the natural world and its complex relationship to culture. My arboricultural practice is centered on practical team work whilst my artistic work emphasizes different ways of looking and thinking about the world. This combination has given me a practical, creative approach to making art - a passion which I am keen to share. Predominately elemental my art work engages with the power of physical forces, forms and processes. I have a BA First Class Hons. I work with sculpture, installation, video and photography. |
Name: JIM ROSEVEARE
Address: St. Leonards-on-Sea Telephone number: 01424 718338 Mobile: 07939 340345 Email: jamesroseveare@aol.com Website: jamesroseveare.wordpress.com Social Media pages https://www.facebook.com/jim.roseveare https://twitter.com/JimRoseveare Nature of your arts practice: sculpture/ installation/ video/ photography SCHOOLS WORK: QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE Since 2010 I have worked with special needs, nursery, primary, college and adult settings. My Outdoor learning practice includes working with excluded young adults and orgainisations supporting mental and physical health. I am an Arts Award Adviser and work for Education Futures Trust and the Workers’ Educational Association. RECENT SCHOOLS WORK: Art and the Environment’. Arts Award. Ten pupils (7 - 11 yrs). King Offa Academy, Bexhill. 5 sessions - four at the Academy / nearby woodlands; one at Farley Farm House / Sculpture garden. Exploration of interconnections between sculpture; natural woodland materials and the inspirational art collection of FFH (Picasso, Max Ernst, Lee Miller) http://kingoffaprimaryacademy.org/blog/2015/09/18/headteachers-weekly-update-18th-september/ 2010. Torfield Special Needs School, Hastings. Creative Partnerships. Teacher - Jim Paynter. Art workshops/nature walks/ planting of school woodland area. 2010. Robsack Nursery School, Hastings. Art at the Start Programme. Creative Partnerships. Veronica Harrison (Children's Centre Key worker, Willingdon Trees Children's Centre, Eastbourne) Bringing the natural world to life. Engaging children with all their senses in discovering the woodland environment. Viewing the woodland as a place in which learning can be fun and adventurous; a familiar place which can feel comfortable and safe. 2014 Little Gate Farm with Glyne Gap Special Needs School. Arts Award (Discover). LGF. Claire Cordell. Teacher - Wendy Gray. “We began the Certificate in the LGF classroom by looking at artists who use the natural environment to create art. It was a delight to see how absorbed the children became while looking at the reference material. The next step was to discover and explore the wonder of the Farm’s woodland a short walk away. We listened in silence to the birds; the wind in the trees, we imagined stories of woodland creatures, we looked at tiny insects, we smelled the damp woodland leaves, we crunched dead leaves underfoot, we touched the velvety moss. How then could we make art from our rich experience of woodland magic? We started to collect material within the woods. We dug, we gathered, we snapped, we scattered, we moulded, we balanced, we propped, we piled, and we CREATED! “ ADDITIONALNational Dip in Arboriculture. Member of the Woodland Trust Member of the De La Warr Pavillion Crit Group and BlueMonkey Network. |
LEE SHEARMAN: ARTIST / DESIGNER / ILLUSTRATOR
MY WORK
I am an arts educator, freelance illustrator and designer. I co-founded the art collective Borbonesa and run a small-press publishing platform Micro Library Books. I work in design, illustration, photography, film and stop frame animation. |
Name: Lee Shearman
Address: St.Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex Telephone: 07812 432361 Email: leeshearman@gmail.com Website: www.leeshearman.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leeshearman Twitter: https://twitter.com/leeshearman SCHOOLS WORK QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE I have a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art and C&G in Music Technology. I have worked on a number of Education projects in schools and collages in the South East. SCHOOLS WORK: PRACTICE I regularly run bookmaking, collage and stop frame animation workshops in schools. I worked with five schools in the Hastings and Rother region on Mightier Than the Sword project and for Being Rural part of Hastings and Rother Arts Education project 2014/15. I was artist-in-Residence for ROOT 1066 Contemporary Arts Festival. |
FELICITY TRUSCOTT: Experimental drawing, action drawing, site responsive installation, 3D / 2D
MY WORK
I use drawing as a site specific process to research and explore dependencies between mark, surface and depth. My practice explores line through activity, recording the traces or impressions made during familiar and habitual movement. I use drawing as a process to research and explore dependencies between mark, surface and depth. I make playful interruptions in the landscape, such as drawings between tree trunks, using tape and wool or dragging my boots around heavily fallen leaves creating pathways, I roller skate on pigment powder and dust layering up lines. I document, photograph, sketches of these experimental states, write, make films and audio clips of my thoughts. |
Name: Felicity Truscott
Address: Bexhill, East Sussex Telephone:01424 216263 Mobile: 07988860675 Email: felicitytruscott@gmail.com Website: www.felicitytruscott.com Social Media pages: https://www.instagram.com/felicitytruscott/?hl=en https://twitter.com/ftruscott @ftruscott SCHOOLS WORK & EXPERIENCE Experience of year 6, 10 and A Level students I regularly lead DLWP gallery tours for adults and children. I lead exhibition specific workshops for both DLWP and Jerwood Gallery. I assist the Learning and Participation team in the generation of ideas and creation of learning activities based on exhibitions. RECENT SCHOOLS PROJECT Simon Patterson ‘Safari – exhibition as expedition’ experimental drawing project for GCSE yr 10. 3 sessions. Simon Patterson, curator of the DLWP and practical gallery activity. Gallery and DLWP studio, collaborative floor and window drawings encouraging experimental approach. Monochrome mark making, artist book and sketch book development in school. Netherfield CEP Year 6 art project to make a 3D diorama of the Antarctic and Shackleton’s expedition. Rye Studio School collaborative project to make a skating drawing 3x3m. ADDITIONAL: Member of Blue Monkey Artists Network based at Towner, Eastbourne. http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk a-n.co.uk and blog here https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/revolution-and-resonance-2017 axisweb.co.uk https://www.axisweb.org/p/felicitytruscott/ |