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Art by the Loch
I have opened a community artspace! Art by the Loch is a temporary art studio for summer 2021. It offers affordable work and exhibition space for local artists and runs drop in activities for all ages. I will be working on my painting in this lovely space all summer. Www.facebook.com/artbytheloch Www.instagram.com/art_bytheloch/
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Cookbook; a pantry of memories.
A little print work has been keeping me busy. A lovely emotive recipe book for generation arts.
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Campsie view sensory garden
I’ve been back in school! A few sessions to add some new colour and interest to the tired sensory garden.
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Art By Post
Toonspeak are doing a great job of supporting their young people (and artists!) during Covid19 Lockdown. Creating lots of opportunities including Art By Post, art packs delivered to the young persons home which include lots of exciting activities to complete at home. Without any in-person or online tutoring my instructions needed to be very clear […]
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Creative pupil of the week notice board
Campsie view School (specials needs provision, East Dunbartonshire) had a pupil of the week notice board that was crying out for a creative revamp. Each week a pupil of the week is chosen for each class and the certificates are displayed here. I wanted to create something fun and colourful. Something that could moved to […]
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Mini Illustrators
I worked with Burgh Primary on their once upon my time project. The primary sevens work with nursery to write and illustrate their own professionally printed story books. I led a workshop with everyone together including the childrens families to develop ideas and images for the illustrations. I then worked with the images to edit […]
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Campsie View school play
I have continued to work with special needs provision school Campsie View. This time the most ambitious project yet. Working with the teachers we put on a full school show. I helped each class to create costumes, props and back drops for each scene. The children made a wide range of things including a crocodile […]
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Toonspeak Slime monsters
Toonspeak provides free, high quality drama and theatre activities for young people living in Glasgow. I worked with some of the young people to help them design their own slime monsters.
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Pumpkin Den at Narrowboat Farm
A new addition for the pumpkin patch this year. The challenge was make this old wooden thing that was lying around into something fun for the patch.
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Laird Pheasant McPheasantface @ The National Museum Of Scotland
As part of the project “Cashback to the future” with impact arts I worked with a group of vulnerable young people within the National Museum of Scotland. We were asked to explore and respond to the current exhibition “Wild and majestic”. The exhibition explores Scottish heritage and history. Working with me the young people designed […]
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PYO Pumpkins @ Narrowboat Farm
I worked with Narrowboat Farm to add colour and interest to their site and boat trips as well as carving workshops during their pick your pumpkin event.
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Spinning mandalas @ Belladrum Festival 2018
This years Belladrum is a Bollywood extravaganza, the festival director contacted me once again to see what I could contribute. I like festival artwork to be interactive and of course colourful. I designed a series of mandala inspired circular patterns that could be spun around. Lots of them hung together creates a large scale striking […]
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Cashback To The Future – National Museum Of Scotland
Impact Arts’ Cashback for Communities-funded programme – entitled Cashback to the Future – this year engaged over 100 young people in Ayrshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Renfrewshire in in-depth creative workshops led by artists who offered masterclasses in visual arts music, performance and digital work. Aimed at 12-19 year olds who are all vulnerable in some […]
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Under The Sea
Campsie View is a school for children with a range of additional support needs. I have been working with this school for a year to develop the childrens engagement with visual art. This term with have focussed on the “Under the sea”. We have been hugely productive. We started by exploring light as that was […]
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City Life with Campsie View School
Campsie View is a school for children with a range of additional support needs. I worked with the senior pupils to explore city life. The children were interested in vehicles, cars and planes. We create a set which included 3d clouds and decorated some aeroplanes. We had lots of fun playing with the planes and […]
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The Sound Forest
I worked in collaboration with musician Kirsty Hamilton and Kilsyth Primary School to create a musical art trail for the schools outdoor learning space. The project was funded by One Family. Myself and Kirsty delivered a series of workshops to all classes in the school. The children experimented with musical instruments and learned how they […]
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Suitcase Theatre
I was paired with St Crispins School to help them create a film for The Awfey Huge Variety Show at the Festival Theatre. I worked with the children to create a suitcase theatre complete with set changes and a series of puppets. We passed this on to Jane McInally who created this […]
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Sustrans Map Board with Coalburn Primary
I was commissioned by Sustrans to work with Coalburn Primary school to design a map board to be sited on the NCN – 74 cycle route running beside the village. The brief was to engage with the children at Coalburn Primary School to rethink the standard map board design. I worked with each class […]
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