Carville Primary School
Commissioned by the Laing Art Gallery to collaborate with students at Carville primary school, to create a piece of artwork for exhibition at the gallery. Inspired by the North East shipping industry and Turner's painting 'The Fighting Temeraire' we made three large tiled walls and three large sustainably made ships. Using air drying clay and acrylic paint to make tiled walls, as well as scarp materials, cardboard and recyclable materials to create the three ships. Participants also experienced using oil pastels to replicate Turners artwork, creating their own sculptured ships from clay, learning different drawing skills and even a visit to the gallery to see Turners work on exhibition.
Waterville Primary School
Commissioned by North Tyneside Council to design and decorate an eco friendly weekend market stall. Using inspiration from well known local areas we created a series of illustrations which where painted during our workshop by the children.
Appletree Gardens Frist School
For world book week we created an Alice in Wonderland themed 3D sculpture and scene, collaboratively decorated by the children. We also created a variety of crafts which included; mad hatter hats, bunny ears, abstracts for the tea pot and paper tea sets.
Hazelwood Primary School - Summer Carnival
To coincide with Hazelwood Primary schools’ summer carnival, we designed a range of paper crafts to fit with the theme, this included making hats, bunting, horse carousels, circus tents and masks.
The workshop was aimed to provide an easy, fun and all-inclusive morning of simple crafts. We provided a variety of different materials to inspire and help create unique pieces for the students to take home or use in their school’s carnival.
Pittington Primary School - Minibeast Art Project
The six week ‘Minibeast Art Project’ was designed to educate children about different species of ‘minibeasts’ and their importance in our world. During the sessions participants worked with a variety of mediums such as, watercolour wax resist paintings, functional paper sculptures, origami, rock painting, forma building, papier-mâché and acrylic paint. Producing a diverse range of work to show at the end of the project.
Pittington Primary School - CPD
The aim of the CPD day was to creatively inspire teachers and build their confidence in incorporating creative methods within their lessons.
Participants were shown a crash course in basic art materials and ways to use them to produce simple yet effective results. Practices included drawing and shading, one point perspective, still life drawing with charcoal and pastels, landscape painting with watercolours and acrylics. As well as the practical aspect of the day there was also demonstrations, resources and plenty of time for discussion of ideas for the school year ahead.
