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From January to March 2024 I worked with The Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health leading a series of arts and wellbeing workshops for young people. Each week we creatively explored different ways of making marks and images using resist techniques, collage and mixed media. At the end of each session we stood around a new section of blank calico to collaboratively fill it before rolling it back up. The full length of fabric was unveiled at the end of the project as a record of the weeks we had spent together and will be on permanent display at The Coborn Centre later this year. This resource celebrates some of the work made during this project and includes the words of some of the participants as a legacy and reminder to never give up. This printable A3 resource and poster was distributed throughout The Coborn Centre as an invitation for service users to explore.

From September 2023- July 2024 I was the lead Artist for Flourish at ACAVA’s Barham Park. The project culminated in the co production of this new interactive resource for Wembley families to creatively explore the park together. The zine was designed with Artist Sadie St. Hilaire and printed at PageMasters in Lewisham.

 

Over two months in 2024, I worked with Mind in Camden participants leading a series of Arts and Wellbeing workshops at the Foundling Museum. Together we explored embroidery and weaving techniques inspired by The Mother and the Weaver exhibition. Throughout the weekly sessions, the group contemplated concepts of the unseen mother, maternal love, positive and negative space, absence and presence through acts of writing, cutting, weaving and repairing. The final exhibition, Filling Gaps, displayed the textile works from the group at the museum from 13 March- 14 April 2024. This poster series was designed by Modern Activity and then distributed to Mind Centres across London as well as the group participants as a legacy of the project.

Making In Isolation, Together, worked remotely with a group of people over the age of 65 who met weekly over conference call to discuss the topics Confinement, Solidarity and Survival. Alongside these discussions, material packs were posted out to each individual to enable the group to learn new skills in batik. Work was made and posted along, to ensure everyone has the opportunity to collaborate even if it wasn’t possible to meet in real life. The three collaborative batik works made with with Sara Apoolingum, Ranjini Arasasingham, Angela Byer, Maggie Freake, Melvyn Freake, Shirley Ann Giles, Kiran Kansagra, Khim Lee, Odun Ogundipe, Denise Ross and Rita Vora are available to see on permanent display at Age Uk, Redbridge and the Allan Burgess Centre in Wansted and this online resource was created as an archive of the time spent together.

In 2014-15 I was an Artist on the Artist in Residence Workshop Program at Tate alongside Laura Gannon, Tina Gverovic, Hannah Hewetson, Adam James, Beatrice Loft Schulz, Chooc Ly Tan, Nadége Mériau, Kate Squires and Linda Stupart. Over the year we worked within the galleries to explore ways of sharing practice with local schools and education providers. As an outcome of this year, I worked in collaboration with Schools and Teachers to devise an activity as part of the resources. My activity, M is for Moving Through, Moving You, sought to use performance as a way of navigating exhibition space through feelings.